Tag: Transformer Furniture - Page 7
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Transformers: Street Furniture Hides in Electrical Box
You know what happens with street furniture; people sit or lie on it and there is never room for you. Unless you know about the Guerilla Bench from the German design studio Rugwind. They have designed a bench that folds up inside a standard
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Transformer Furniture: Sofa Becomes Punching Bag
We love transformer furniture, where a single item serves multiple functions; we are particularly fond of transformers that give you a workout. Designer Tobias Fraenzel, known to TreeHugger for his wonderful ping pong door tries his hand at a
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Transformer Furniture: Rearrange the Cushions To Turn Sofa Into Bed
Sofa beds try so hard to look like regular sofas, with complicated mechanisms and pullouts. In many you put the cushions aside to pull out a separate bed; they do neither function really well.
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Milan 2010 Furniture Fair Preview: Saved by Droog
Designers everywhere are preparing for this year's Salone del Mobile in Milan, and so is Droog. The Dutch design company saved 5135 items from liquidation sales and other leftovers and invited 14 designers to create something new with
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Transformer Furniture: Tatamis to Tables
In Japan, room sizes are not measured in feet or meters, but in mats, based on multiples of the standardized tatami mats that were traditionally used to cover floors. They have fallen out of favour, but designer Shin Yamashita has reinvented them in a
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Hide Your Piano In Your Dining Table
In yet an other great example of combining functions to take up less space, Georg Bohle builds a piano into a dining table. For that matter, you can have music while you dine. "The pianotable offers a dinner with the
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Daily Shelter: Kitchen Table Turns Into A Fort
TreeHugger emeritus Jasmin Malik Chua now holds the fort at Inhabitots, and shows this very good idea, a kitchen table that turns into a playhouse, designed by Ingrid Brandth. According to Jas, you just pull down the sides and push up the roof.
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Transformer Furniture: Boxetti All Folds Up Into Boxes
The essence of minimalism- a place for everything and everything in its place. Latvian designer Rolands Landsbergs gives us Boxetti, where everything just goes away when you are done with it, leaving you with nothing but....boxes. He says that the
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Moving Walls Transform Apartment: Four Minutes of WOW! (VIDEO)
A year ago we wrote about Gary Chang's Domestic Transformer, an incredible 344 square foot apartment that could change into any of 24 different designs.
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Transformer Furniture: From Table to Table Tennis
Why do we show so much transformer furniture? Ryan Vanderbilt puts it succinctly:
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Hiding In Plain Sight: Picture Table By Ivydesign
We do love transformers, furniture that changes functions or folds up to allow multiple uses of the object or the space. Verena Lang of Ivydesign has created the Picture Table: " A usually space consuming functional piece of furniture can be turned
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Take Up Less Space With A Vertical Bed
TreeHugger always promotes ideas that let you live in less space, as well as transformer furniture that goes away when you don't need it. Jamie O'Shea of the Office for the Development of
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Second Skin: A Pop-Up Room By Rene Siebum
Alex at Shedworking is expanding into interior design, with this bookcase that opens up to "create an environment which helps us to concentrate and focus," although it won't do much for noise. Alex calls it "shedworkingesque."
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TAB Dining Table Turns Into Office Desk
What is the difference between a dining table and a desk?
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Transformer Furniture: Suited Case by Erik De Nijs
We love transformer furniture, stuff that takes up less space by serving multiple functions. And what do you do with empty suitcases? Dutch designer Erik De Nijs of Nieuwe Heren solves the problem with Suited Case, a collection of suitcases
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Transformers: The Genya Chair Folds Up Into Elegant Sloping Slab
Seen at IIDEX: The Genya Chair is designed for auditoria, but I think would fit well into small apartments. This elegant sloping slab opens up to a very comfortable chair.
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Transformer Furniture Gets Affordable
Whenever we show some interesting piece of transformer furniture, designs that serve a number of functions, the regular comment is "why is this so expensive?" But we often show the cutting edge stuff made in short runs by designers, before the ideas
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Transformer Furniture: iBum Hides Photocopier in Chair
And why is this on TreeHugger? We love furniture that serves multiple functions and takes up less space. Since at every Christmas party somebody in the office is going to try and sit on the old Xerox 914, why not build it into a chair, avoiding the
