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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 ...

Plug & Plop: Urban Add-Ons Turn Street-Side Bollards into Seats & Tables

Designed to act as barriers, bollards are a common sight in cities around the world -- but what if they could engage rather than just separate? This series of simple additions from ...

Modular Urbanism: Coin-Operated System of Portable Street Furniture

Much like coin-based cart systems found in supermarkets and airports, these stackable stools (which double as table surfaces) can be borrowed, moved around and returned with ease. Unlike ...

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 ...

Neglected Riverside Steps Revived with Form-Fitting Sunbed Seats

Designed to help citizens of Wroclaw, Poland, reclaim neglected parts of their city this site-specific "microinstallation" provides comfortable urban furniture for an otherwise hard-to-occupy ...

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 ...

Sewer Pipe Sofa: Rusted NYC Tubes Recycled as Urban Seating

The latest in a long line of city-centric upcycling projects, this modular couch turns the ultimate in untouchable urban infrastructure into a chic industrial work of furniture. Carlo ...

Flexible Furniture: Mold this Seat into All Sorts of Shapes

Sitting in a single position for long periods is not just uncomfortable but also a health hazard, but is the solution to be found in a single form or something more pliable and ...

Nomadic Furniture: Backpack of Parts Creates Portable Seat

A wooden seat that needs to wood, glue or screws, but focusing on traditional construction techniques, this design is about the craft-oriented journeyman and not a comfort-driven ...

Self Snuggling: 7 Super-Cozy Full Body-Wrapping Seats

Forget your chair-and-blank combination - with these ultra-warm wonders of domestic design, curling up with a good book has never seemed more enticing. Speaking of chairs and blankets, Aga ...

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