Pedestal's Cable Villa Costs $180 and Refuses to Hide

Swiss studio BIG-GAME has designed a $180 wheeled steel box that holds cables, adapters, and power strips — and looks good enough to leave in a living room. It's the standout piece of Power Series, the studio's collection for Danish brand Pedestal, and it's on sale now, not a concept rendering.

The collection tackles a specific territory: the roughly six inches below the tabletop where charging bricks, spare cord length, and power strips collect. Pedestal's answer uses silicone rings, steel covers, trays, and a wheeled storage box. The stated logic is refreshingly domestic — make the necessary electrical mess easier to live around.

The Cable Bagel is the most immediately charming object. Made from flexible silicone, it gathers cords into a rounded, doughnut-shaped body, and the name tells you almost everything about its appearance. It comes in blue, green, pink, and cream, and in studio photographs it reads more like a chunky tabletop accessory than equipment management. One image shows it hanging behind a television, cable ends emerging below.

What does the Cable Villa actually do?

The Cable Villa does the heavier lifting. The steel box holds cables, adapters, and power strips, with wheels underneath and a handle rising above its rooflike lid. In pink, it has the slightly amusing presence of a miniature utility cart. That visual choice is deliberate: an organizer doesn't have to disappear to look appropriate in a living room. The enclosed body handles the concealment while the exterior gets to be an object with character.

The wheels have a practical function too. They let you reposition the box when you need access, though connected cable lengths still limit how far anything travels. It's a modest scale of usefulness — a place to contain existing hardware, not a reason to reorganize a room around chargers.

How does the rest of the Power Series work?

The remaining pieces are more restrained, and most depend on Pedestal's Power Beam:

• Power Shell — powder-coated steel that fits around the Power Beam and stands upright or lies flat
• Power Tower — supports the Beam vertically
• Power Tray — a work-surface organizer built around the Beam for cables, adapters, and small essentials; a double version adds two compartments

Offering both the Shell and the Tower makes sense. Sometimes you want to screen off a power strip; sometimes you need regular access to its sockets. Those are different habits that deserve different shapes. Note that both accessories require the separately sold Beam.

The Power Tray sits closest to a conventional desk organizer, but its relationship to the power strip gives it a reason to exist. It puts storage where the connections happen rather than treating cables and power as unrelated housekeeping.

What does it cost, and is it worth it?

Pedestal lists the Cable Bagel at $45 and the Cable Villa at $180, so the visual pleasure carries a premium. Buying the whole family for a coordinated desk photograph is hard to justify. One well-chosen piece works better: the Bagel addresses loose cord, the Villa contains a larger collection, and the Beam accessories involve a specific system. Fit and regional plug compatibility deserve attention before ordering.

The Villa stands out because it gives the least glamorous part of a setup a little architectural dignity. The appeal isn't a fantasy of owning fewer devices or never seeing a wire again. It's the more attainable pleasure of making room for what you already use — a cable box you don't immediately want to shove out of sight.