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After the abuse we took last week for the Loft in Space stair, we present our stair of the week, built by Jan Korbes. He and his associates call themselves "Garbage Architects" and "operate on the borders of architecture, engineering, and design and create new products from old materials. Origin for designs are found in [...]
Popularity: 36% [?] architecture, garbage, stairs, wood |
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This is the first luggage-to-seating arrangement we’ve come across. While the others cross functions in the same space (like the living room), this quaint concept is more of a comfortable suitcase, or chair with wheels that holds a bunch of clothes sometimes. By crossing platforms, it insures that there are few situations that it couldn’t [...]
Popularity: 21% [?] Chair, fransformer, suitcase |
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Ever have trouble reaching the top cabinets in your kitchen? Tired of shoe-prints on your dining chairs? Stonewall Kitchen’s "Folding Chair Ladder" is here to help, doing double duty as (you guessed it) a chair and a ladder.
We can think of dozens of ways this smart little folder could be put to good use, in [...]
Popularity: 40% [?] Chair, Kitchen, Transformer Furniture |
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Integrating storage into stairs like this makes so much sense in small spaces. It is common in Japan and I have seen Chinese furniture like this, but Voet-Theuns architecten have given it a modern spin.
A commenter at Materialicious notes that "in Belgium (the country of Voet-Theuns, and probably also the location this project) it’s quite [...]
Popularity: 21% [?] stairs, storage |
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Cradle to cradle is a concept that must be embraced if future generations are to avoid living atop the fetid mountains of discarded consumer glut. Products that recycle our waste into useful, stylish products are part of the solution. The Nobody chair, which was one of the winners at the recent Forum AID Awards in [...]
Popularity: 23% [?] Chair, Pet, recyclable, Stockholm |
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Even the Swiss are going crazy! Usually, a swiss army knife can be described by one short phrase: minimalistic and practical.
This means that you get a bunch of useful functions out of a small and simple to use device. Well, now, the ’small’ part seems to be totally out. How about 9 whole inches of [...]
Popularity: 36% [?] Knife, Swiss |