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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 ...

Vanishing Infrastructure: Flat-Folding Urban Bicycle Rack Pops Up on Demand

It sounds like a great design solution: a pop-up bike rack that disappears below the pavement when not in use, but the problem it aims to solve really an issue, and (if so) would it ultimately ...

Flat-Pack Cat Cities: Modular Feline Architecture Inspired by Origami & Lego

Product-tested by a husband-and-wife team of architects in their own abode, 'A Cat Thing' was developed to let pet owners construct an endless array of feline crawling, hiding and resting spaces ...

Facades Minus Architecture: Subtractive Photos Flatten Built Environments

In Facades 3, the latest in a series of such sets, French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy ones again visits flatland, imagining the world constructed like a stage set from virtually ...

Origami Spoon: Flat-Folding Kitchen Tool Adjusts to Measure Multiple Sizes

A clever domestic design to eliminate ungainly collections of measuring spoons and cups, Polygons is an ingenious cooking multi-tool that measures different amounts on demand and packs flat when ...

Flat-Pack Wall Furniture Folds into its Own Isometric Projection

This furniture series not only folks up to pack flat for shipping or storage, but also hangs on the wall, each piece in the shape of a two-dimensional isometric drawing of ...

Travelbox: Pop-Up Furniture Set Fits in 1 Cubic-Meter Trunk

Combining elements of flat-pack furniture and traditional travel trunks, this pop-up furnishing kit for urban nomads comes complete with a bed, chair, table, storage space and even a bicycle for ...

IKEA to Produce & Ship 10,000 Flat-Pack Emergency Shelters

With 40 test units created and deployed since 2013, IKEA is now ready to begin mass-producing its $1,000-per-unit temporary flat-pack house to destinations in need around the world. Much like ...

Secret Engagement: Flat Ring Case Enables Surprise Proposals

As soon as someone pulls out a ring box the (wedding bell) alarms start sounding, hence this ingeniously slim alternative that packs flat into pockets and still doesn't reveal its purpose once ...

Refold Workstation: Mobile Flat-Pack Cardboard Standing Desk

Two student designers have seen the future and building toward it with a flexible, foldable, affordable and recyclable cardboard desk that support the weight of a whole person but can also be ...

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