Transformer Furniture Goes Mainstream
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 08.21.08
Back in the day before notebook computers could compete with desktops for price or power, a home office looked pretty ugly, particularly when dealing with big CRT monitors. Now it is so much easier, and the furniture is being designed to accommodate home office setups that really do go away when you finish your work.
With more people living and working in smaller spaces, the market has grown as well, so that where a few years ago, designs like this were produced in small quantities and cost thousands, now you can pick them up at Crate and Barrel for five hundred bucks.
Of course, for that price it isn't necessarily going to be made of FSC certified wood by local craftspeople.
But when such designs become mainstream and the public accepts them, they become part of a downsizing trend, where people are living in smaller, more efficient spaces with less stuff cluttering them up. I hope. ::Crate and Barrel via ::Unpluggd
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And 500 dollars is cheap in which virtual universe?
The main point there being that unless solutions (and green ones especially) can be 'walmarted' (or more appropriately 'ikead', we are sunk. Its depressing but true.
I've seen people spend $200 on a coat rack lol. So seeing two pieces of furniture for $250ea isn't to shabby, especially if one lives in a small apartment.
Green furniture looks and feels real, ikea and walmart furniture feels fake and disconnected. I have seen companies that hand make every single part of the furniture and still manage to sell it cheaper than a mass produced plastic sofa...crazy.
wow. I like the minimalist design. but jeez, $500 bucks?? for that?? I thought the less material the less cost. and thats machine manufactured. I might pay if the furniture was hand made, stress on 'might'.
I could maybe get this made if I worked out the design.
this stuff looks like it came from IKEA