Useful, Lowbrow Furniture, Badly Executed: The Outdoor Side Table Cooler

This is an interesting furniture form, designed for the masses, and always poorly executed. (I have a hard time admitting those two qualities are now permanently linked.) Aimed at the outdoor grilling crowd, it's a height-adjustable outdoor side table with a cooler in the bottom for beers. I'd love to know who designed the first one, but at this point the knockoff genie's out of the bottle. Keter's version has a pleasant form and inoffensive surfacing, but look at those terrible legs: ...