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Saving Up Space: Transforming, Multifunctional & Flat-Pack Furniture Designs & Ideas

In 1900, San Francisco entrepreneur William Murphy designed a fold-out bed that would allow him to court a young opera singer inside his studio apartment. The hidden bed was a workaround to ...

Stackable School Desks: Multifunctional Designs for Rural Mexican Schools

Stacking chairs have long been a space-saving staple of offices, homes and schools, but getting a complex shape like a desk to stack up is a challenge -- one these designers decided to take on ...

Fractal Furniture: 3D-Printed Metal Chairs Feature Rich Geometric Details

Squint and you can see familiar shapes behind the dazzling detail and metallic gold of these 3D-printed chairs, but up close: finer geometries dominate each design. Developed by John ...

Buckle Your Seat: Leather Belt Brings Creative Class to ‘Cinch’ Folding Chairs

A twist on the traditionally dull folding chair, the 'Cinch' is simple to assemble, requiring no screws, glue or tools, but it also comes with a twist: a belt that buckles up to hold everything ...

Totally Tubular: Industrial Furniture Engineered from Ventilation Ducts

A series of industrial steel ventilation pipes and copper sheet stripped from a scrapyard come together in this industrial-style furniture design dubbed "Tubular." Typically used for heating, ...

Swiss Army Bed: The Ultimate Modular & Multifunctional Furniture Design

It's hard to imagine a more flexible and functional piece of furniture to spend a third of your life in than this one from Singapore, featuring an array of creature comforts and high-tech ...

Invisible Repairs: Artist Fixes Broken Wood Furniture Using Clear Infill

Wooden furniture remnants stand out clearly against their subtle replacement parts in this series of artistic chair and bed repairs. Translucent acrylic fills in the gaps of these pieces, parts ...

Furniture Chopping: Converted Grocery Cart Chair & Couch Pair

Shopping carts are anything but sleek and modern, often dysfunctional and generally associated with a boring chore, at least until this (re)creator came along. Etiënne Reijnders is a ...

Bottomless Anti-Chair: Crafty Bentwood Form Frames Other Seats

As it stands, you can do just about anything with this Arm Chair except actually sit in it, at least until you add your own chair, stool or other form of seating to the mix. Part ...

Design Copyright Debate: Cheap Replica Eames Chairs Sold for 90% Less

Seated at the center of a new design-related copyright conversation, a series of Eiffel chairs sold by discount superstore Aldi has designers arguing on both sides. The chairs in question ...

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