Tag: Transformer Furniture - Page 6
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We Call It Transformer Furniture; Lester Walker Called It "Turniture"
While looking for LifeEdited ideas in the July 1969 issue of Popular Science, what should pop up but this amazing bit of "turniture"- it is a bed, which turns into a small dining room table, a larger table for four, and even a discreet "tete-a-tete"
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Sofa Is Designed To Store Your Stuff
When you live in small spaces, you don't necessarily want to have a lot of furniture. Now you can get rid of the coffee table by Daisuke Motogi's Lost in Sofa; it is designed so that you can stick things right into it. You
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Architecture Meets Comics In Bureau Spectacular's Mobile Briefcase House
Photos: Bureau Spectacular Transformer spaces never cease to amaze with their ability to morph and adapt to the user's needs of the moment. Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular offers another take on the genre with this intriguing residential loft addition;
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Foldable Kitchens Moove Out Of The Way When Not Needed
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help: Enter the design competition and win up
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Design Your Own Transformer Furniture For LifeEdited
I have been having so much fun with LifeEdited,,
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Submit Your Ideas To The Life Edited Challenge
The LifeEdited open challenge is live, and I gave it a
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Transformer Furniture: A Sofa Bed With A Twist
Traditional sofa beds, where you have to remove all the cushions and unfold the bed, are a pain and not very comfortable. But for smaller spaces and studios, transformers can save a lot of space and serve multiple functions.
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Space Saving Sofa Stores Your Stuff. Is This A Good Thing?
At the Baita Design Studio in Rio De Janeiro, they write about the Safo Sofa:
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Switch: Moving Wall Transforms Home To Office
Making a space work as both a home and an office can be hard, which is why so many home offices are in bedrooms, basements or sheds. Japanese designer Yuko Shibata shows an approach that might work in
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You Can Sit 12 Different Ways On The Loop Transformer Chair
Imagine what Mel Brooks could do with this; instead of The Twelve Chairs, he just gets one transformer chair that can work twelve different ways. DesignBoom shows Boaz Mendel's Loop Chair can be reassembled as a bar stool, a
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Red Nest By Paul Coudamay Hides The Bed With A Sliding Bookcase
TreeHugger has shown many ways to hide the bed; most are designed to gain more space. But the Red Nest by Paul Coudamay doesn't; the bed is still there taking up space, but is hidden by the sliding bookcase.
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10 More Ways To Get Rid Of The Bed (Slideshow)
A while back, TreeHugger
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Transformer Furniture Is A "Cluster Of Multifunctional Modular Forms"
Transformer furniture, that serves different functions and fits in smaller spaces, has been a feature on TreeHugger. But we have never shown a transformer with as many tricks as UK Designer James Howlett's Restyle; he claims that there are 40 different
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Tiny Transformer Kitchen Occupies Less Than 10 Square Feet When Closed
The challenge in the "1, 2, 3... easy kitchen!" competition shown in Designboom was to design a kitchen that occupied less than 1 square meter (about 10 square feet). Kristin Laass and Norman Ebelt of burg giebichenstein: hochschule fur kunst und
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Folding Table is Inspired By Pop-Up Map of New York
Mocoloco introduces Swedish designers Sanna Lindström and Sigrid Strömgren, who collaborated on the Grand Central Table. It is composed of 22 pieces that unfold like a map and sit on a folding base.
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Prefab Meets Loft With Interior Living Unit
As people move back downtown, and as more office and factory buildings become superfluous, it is a logical fit to convert them to residential or live-work. For his thesis at Cranbrook, Andrew Kline looked at the issue of how
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Work Anywhere With Kruikantoor, a Combination of Wheelbarrow And Office
TreeHugger loves mobile designs that allow multiple uses of space or that fold up and go away when not needed. Mocoloco shows us Dutch designer Tim Vinke's Kruikantoor.
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Living With Less: Picnic Table Turns Into Shelter
When Bonnie covered the 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces show at the Victoria and Albert, she missed Sean Godsell's Picnic Table House, a clever idea where a picnic table by day becomes a homeless shelter by night.
