There are two factors at play when you’re a renter that you will inevitably deal with. One is that you don’t usually stay for long in one apartment. That is, your rent will go up and you will end up looking for a new apartment that is more affordable rather …
Looking of an isolated space to escape the world? Have a look at PULL Pavilion – tiny box on wheels that hides a complete room within another room. Designed by Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler (AFGH) for Wallpaper, this box-on-wheels is a pavilion for indoors when you need to spend …
If statistical figures made any impressions on you, here is one startling one – according to EPA, around a whopping 9.8 million tons of furniture waste are annually discarded into landfills from US. The solution to this mass scale predicament pertinently remains in realm of recycling, and that is exactly …
Cats love action and are most happy in homes that provide them with a rich environment. Most of their time is spent in playing, hiding, scratching or napping. Katris has designed a new modular system that will get rid of the boredom in a cat’s life. Made entirely out of …
The D-square might seem unique in its visual approach, but on closer inspection, you can find a lot of these similar components attached inside garden sheds and farm houses. As a matter of fact, designer Yvon Luneau was inspired by one such installation, which in his words was solid, working …
The furniture designs of the future should be attuned to our personalized living styles and spaces. Designer Petar Zaharinov certainly believes in such a user specific trend taking over the realm of home furnishings, as is evident from his line of ‘Tapeflips’. Entailing just two basic materials – paperboard panels …
The realm of burgeoning apartments have yet another savior in the form of the SOFISTA, a modular furniture system from designer Fabrizio Simonetti. We call it a ‘system’ because of the collective nature of the design that entails its capacity to transform into various items like a sofa, an armchair, a chaise …
Purely in terms of physical and mathematical denominations, the grid and a module is very akin to each other. In fact, in many ways a cubic module can be viewed as three dimensional representation of a 2D grid. Designer (and Royal College of Art graduate) Yin Chang comprehends this structural …
Simplicity in itself pertains to innovation – this was presumably the righteous dictum followed by Colin Westeinde, when he ingeniously designed the aptly named Zip Table. Showcasing its user-oriented virtues of lightweight nature and spatial efficiency, the table is tailored to modular assembly, thus giving the user the ‘power’ to …
In the contemporary realm of furniture, modular designs are taking the center-stage of attention. However, the predicament with many such contrivances is that they are not really user-friendly, especially when it comes to the assembling scope (that requires tools and components). Fortunately, New York designer Paul Loebach’s incredible PEG chair …
