In increasingly small urban apartments where every inch counts, a piece of furniture that transforms from a coffee table to a dining table in seconds, hides a lot of storage or folds up to just ...
What started as a set of infinitely-flexible table legs has now spawned a second but equally stellar sibling design: a series of wall brackets that let you turn scraps into shelving and switch ...
Meandering rivers, icebergs and a deep blue abyss are invoked in layers of blue-green glass, burled wood and cast concrete and translated into tables. Ranging from self-taught artists crafting ...
Pool is one of those great American hobbies that never seems to get old. As much as we might want to play every day, not everyone has the space to fit an entire pool table into their home. These ...
The Tangible Media Group from MIT has developed an approach to responsive design in physical space that is both conceptual and plausible, futuristic yet already a reality. Displaying ...
The form factors of familiar furniture tend to be rather concrete in our minds. When we think of a chair, we expect it to look like a chair - and likewise for tables, benches, and so forth. But ...
Simple and elegant, the Origin III series by designers BCXSY is made up of interlocking wooden shapes that come together into minimalist furniture that can easily be disassembled for transport ...
On March 6th, 1869, Russian chemist and inventor Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the Russian Chemical Society. Not only has his table expanded over the past 142 ...
We sit on it during the day, sleep on it at night, eat off it and even look at our reflection in it - but how much thought do we really give our functional and space-saving furniture and the ...
From their earliest mention in ancient Egyptian inscriptions to the modern trestle and refectory styles we know so well, tables have come a long way. Today, new materials and design methods are ...
