Cube 6: Modern Dining Room Furniture for Small Spaces

Collin Dunn
Design / Sustainable Product Design
April 25, 2008

Dining Room Furniture For Small Spaces

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. More on the Cube 6, Modern Dining Room Furniture for Small Spaces::Naho Matsuno via ::dezeenCompact, Modern, Durable and Green!The stools are made from natural birch plywood and maple and the cube is 35 x 35 x 35 cm when all are slotted together.