Wyrmwood’s new standing desk will require a $3,000 buy-in on Kickstarter
Wyrmwood, long known for a wide variety of luxurious wooden gaming accessories, is expanding its offering to home furniture. The heir apparent to the Geek Chic throne is branching out with the Wyrmwood Modular Desk, a solid wood work-from-home solution with an optional sit/stand feature. It just might be the most elegant new PC gaming peripheral released this year — but it’s going to cost you $3,000 minimum just to reserve your place in line to receive one.
Founded in 2015, Wyrmwood has long been focused on the gaming space with innovative solutions for storing dice and miniatures, as well as over-the-top gaming tables and Dungeon Master screens. But in 2020 it launched an ambitious campaign for the Wyrmwood Modular Gaming Table, which raised an incredible $8.8 million on Kickstarter during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. That project has helped expand the company, which now boasts a second U.S. manufacturing facility, and upgrade its tooling. But the economics of that project didn’t work out in the company’s favor.
“It could have been the end of us,” said co-founder Ed Maranville in a recent interview with Polygon. “We knew it could go one of two ways. Either we’d be out of business, or we’d be a much different company — and a much bigger company — than we had ever been. [...] We’ve been operating at a loss the past couple years. This year, though, we’re out of that. We are actually turning that around, and all the investments we’ve been making the past few years are set to pay off in a big way.”
The Modular Desk is available in a standard (60” by 30”) and an XL (78” by 36”), in both a fixed height and as a motorized sit/stand desk with onboard memory that recalls three different heights. Additional
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