Cube 6: Dining Room Furniture for Small Spaces
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 04.25.08
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for sleek ways to do more with less; it's a good thing any time you can, say, get six extra seats from a cube slightly larger than one cubic foot. That's the idea behind Japanese designer Naho Matsuno's Cube 6, an ingenious construction that fits six stools into a diminutive cube just bigger than a foot (35 cm) each way. Dinner party time? Bring out the cube! Party's over? Put the cube away; no need for a whole dining room to store a full set of full-size chairs.
Matsuno showed the design in the Salone Satellite at the recently-concluded Milan Furniture Fair; like Cube Style's Dining Set, it'd go great with the amazing BEDUP, the bed that retracts into the ceiling, and any other compact living solution that helps you live large in a small space. It isn't quite a whole apartment in a box or a whole apartment's worth of stuff in 43 square feet, but it's a pretty great way to add tons of possibilities to small space without adding tons of stuff. See how it works, and see the three-stool version, below the fold. ::Naho Matsuno via ::dezeen
The stools are made from birch plywood and maple and the cube is 35 x 35 x 35 cm when all are slotted together.
For more dining room furniture options, check out our BuyGreen: Dining Chairs and BuyGreen: Dining Tables guides.
The 3-stool version adds a second side in place of a set of legs. Brilliant!
This is just brilliant.
I'm a big cube fan - I'd have cubist storage all over the house.
The usual problem which this sort of furniture is that all the cool stuff doesn't make it to the UK.
This is a great idea. I gets lots of questions from loft and small apartment dwellers each week.