Tag: It Slices It Dices

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  Transformer Furniture, Future Kitchens and Office Pods Are in "Inside Prefab: The Ready-Made Interior"

  We never called them prefabs, but Deborah Schneiderman's new book shows a lot of what we have called transformer furniture and downloadable designs. Here are a few ripped from the pages of TreeHugger.

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  Just What We Needed Dept: More Useless Kitchen Accessories and NSFW Yet

  You don't need a lot of stuff to be a good cook; Mark Bittman says ""A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All

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  It Slices and Dices: Trends in Green Fridges

  While we continue to stress that small fridges make good cities, there are some trends in big fridges that are worth looking at. So much food is wasted because it turns into compost in the vegetable drawer; much of this is due to the fact that many

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  It Slices, It Dices: Bookseat -- Take a Seat, Read a Book

  The idea of combining a chair and a bookshelf makes a lot of sense to us; since we spend most (if not all) of our reading time seated, it follows that we should have ready access to our reading material. We've seen a few of these ideas before -- check

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  It Slices, It Dices: Fusion Dining/Pool Table Combo

  Too often, our dining tables are relegated to dust-collecting duty when it isn't dinner time. Functioning in the same way beds do in our lives -- that is, totally necessary when we need them, but just occupying space when we don't -- few dining tables

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  It Slices, It Dices: Ex Libris Bookshelf and Table In One

  Taking inspiration from its own Ptolomeo and Ptolomeo Wall book shelf designs (pictures below the fold), the Italian designers at MOCO have applied the same space-saving, hidden shelving ethic to "Ex Libris," the table whose legs double as book

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  It Slices, It Dices: Form Creates Function in New Arne Jacobsen Chair

  Dutch design team Huting & De Hoop have launched a new site to showcase their new work. Their collection includes this awesome Arne Jacobsen update, which they call "Added Values and Forms," which takes the classic chair up a notch or two with an

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  It Slices, It Dices: Smith Storage & Stool by Jonathan Olivares

  Just as "Smith" the surname has many uses (as the most-employed in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand) as a family name, "Smith" the storage and stool has many uses around the house. Designed to have seven different functions, the utilitarian piece

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  It Slices, It Dices: Luís Porém's Inverso Chair

  Rock 'n roll, or sit tight? The choice is yours with the dual-functioning Inverso chair by Portuguese designer Luís Porém. Set up one way, it's a gentle rocking chair; flip it over and you've got a sturdy side chair. It's a really sleek, smart design;

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  It Slices, It Dices: Perfect Perch; Portable, Cheap, Lightweight, Green Seating

  22 year-old student designer James Chu set out to design and create "portable, cheap, lightweight and eco-friendly furniture," and the result is Perfect Perch: a modular, multi-functional, cardboard chair. According to the site, "The initial challenge

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  It Slices, It Dices: Chair777, To Sit, Lounge & Relax

  Between its materials and multi-functional design, die fabrik's Chair777 is not your normal chair. It's made from cardboard, a material that has proven time and again that it's not just for boxes anymore, and might go quite nicely with the designers'

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  It Slices, It Dices: Desk/Bookshelf Combo. Think About It

  Just what was Belgian designer Bram Boo thinking when he conceived this desk/shelf combination for his Novela collection? Hard to say for sure, but we suspect it was an effort to follow his goal "to produce pieces that constantly surprise the user,

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  It Slices, It Dices: Round, A Multi-Functional, Modular Coffee Table by Luciano Bertonici

  Multi-functional and modular: two of TreeHugger's "M" words, and both present here in Luciano Bertonici's "Round" coffee table. On wheels for easy moving and multiple homes in small spaces, the table sports three hollow surfaces that rotate all the way

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  It Slices, It Dices: Two For the Price of One with John Pawson's Sofadesk

  TreeHugger loves multi-functional, multi-tasking furniture and design, because if it can do two things, that's one less piece of furniture, one less thing, that you need cluttering up your house.

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  It Slices, It Dices: Have a Lightbulb Moment in the "Think" Chair

  From designers Huseyin Sami and Gary Galego comes one interpretation of what might happen if a chair and a reading lamp had a lovechild. Inspired by the clichéd image borrowed from cartoons -- you know, when a character has just had a really good idea;

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  It Slices, It Dices: Bibliochaise - Who Needs a Bookshelf?

  For anyone who didn't get enough reading chair/book shelf mashup from last week's Bookinist, here's a slightly more overt combo. Bibiochaise and Bibiopouf come from Italian designers nobody & co eschew the reading light, notebook storage and pencil

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  It Slices, It Dices: Bookinist, the Crazy/Clever Chair for Reading, Thinking, Moving

  We aren't sure if this design is clever or crazy: Bookinist, a combination chair/bookcase with a reading light, cup holder, and a more few surprises that combine to give new meaning to the term "bookmobile." The arms and backrest can hold 80

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  It Slices, It Dices: Spruce Combination Lamp-Sweeper; Bright Idea or Just Dim?

  Okay, so TreeHugger generally approves of multi-functional objects and design: why have two when you can use just one, right? Transforming furniture, like this bendy chair or this table and chairs/sofa/bed triple threat, make a lot of sense, but the