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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 ...

Mojow: Modern Flat-Pack Furniture with Inflatable Cushions

Flat pack furniture makes shipping and moving a lot easier, but it doesn't leave much room for comfortable cushions. A French furniture brand called Mojow came up with a clever workaround that ...

Enhancing IKEA: Small Designer Additions Totally Transform Kit Furniture

IKEA furniture can get your interior design most of the way to where you want it, but another Scandinavian company has enlisted three world-renowned architecture firms to help get you the rest of ...

Intelligent Interiors: Robotic Furniture Retracts to Ceiling When Not in Use

Driven by an artificially intelligent butler, this smart furniture system promises to free up valuable floor space by lifting and lowering modular interior design elements as needed, putting them ...

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 ...

Green Machines: India’s First IKEA Boasts Fleet of Solar-Powered Rickshaws

When in India, do like the Indians do -- at least that seems to be IKEA's approach -- which in this case means spinning up an array of small, nimble vehicles able to duck and weave through ...

20+ Reasons to Love Resin: These Artistic Home Furnishings are Clearly Cool

Clear resin is tinted with pigments, glitter or glow-in-the-dark powder, mixed with crystals and poured into the crevices of natural stone and wood to create one-of-a-kind home furnishings ...

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, ...

Augmented IKEA: Assembly App Shows Full-Scale 3D Building Instructions

Putting IKEA manuals into augmented reality, this phone app lets buyers scan their product's barcode, then swipe to follow steps in realtime against the actual backdrop of the room being used ...

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