Can you sit to play football? I can, as long as I have this “Lazy Football” chair designed by Emanuele Magini for Italian furniture manufacturer campeggi. Combining a football net with a chair frame, the designer cleverly turned common furniture into an interesting entertainment piece: users can leisurely participate in a football game simply by sitting there and moving their feet…Neither boring nor tiring at all!
Hey, chairs, have you successfully held the tables? … To make cleaning floor an easy work, Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang Hock has come up with this Hold Chair concept, which is a winner of the prestigious Red Dot Design Award. It features a sliding design, meaning that the chair can slide onto the table.
Inspired by life but also serves life, the PortiqueArmchair designed by Florent Coirier is a clever combination of arm chair and garden swing, which allows us to enjoy the big fun of playing on the swing while we’re spend the time indoors.
With no wind, no road, or speed, to ride on the Biker Chair may seem bit of boring to someone, but who cares? At least, it’s the safest and the greatest laborsaving way to ride on a bike… That’s enough to me!
For small-apartment owners, the space-saving and multifunctional furniture sets are always welcomed, and on their lists there’s Claudio Sibille’s Sensei. The furniture set includes two chairs that could be used separately; but when you flip the chairs on their sides and piece them together, they would then serve as a table.
Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen. So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?
“Life within Objects” is a design that provides us a new way to interact with animals and plants. Put forward by Spanish-based designer Martín Azúa, the chair integrates a plant pot and an animal shelter with a seating device. Made of recyclable polyethylene with the rotomolding technique, the chair is ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, therefore allowing you to live a harmony life with your turtle, rabbit and your plants.
What will you do with 40 elastic bands, to play a game, to handcraft an artwork, or to do something else? Designer Velichko Velikov would love to make a chair with the 40 vibrant elastic bands and did so. The piece was shown during Budapest Design Week 2011, known to the visitors for its rich colors and elegant styles. With such a beautiful chair in your house, wow, your building may become part of art too.
Hug Chair, just as implied by its name, is an innovative piece of furniture especially designed for clingy lovers to hug. Obviously men would love this chair quite much, because it saves their legs from the weight of their girlfriends. Besides, the chair can also serve as a personal workstation, allowing the users to conveniently place their tablets or speakers on its “extra chair”.
No doubt we all need a chair. But which is your ideal one, a chair with interesting shape or one that features a full function? Whatever, you would like these creative chairs shown here. [Read the rest of this entry...]
‘KE-Chair’ is an assistive device especially designed for people who have difficulties in evacuating from disaster. It is foldable and smart, making the device compact enough for storage. It is also adjustable, and therefore the KE-Chair is compatible with various shapes of stairs. When needing evacuation, a protector should firstly unfold the KE-Chair and then move the vulnerable people downstairs conveniently and effectively. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Like any sweet and fragrant roses, the “Tenderly” chair designed by Carla Tolomeo are blooming in your room, to add beauty, to add freshness. It is available in a range of colors, while produced with a limited edition of only 300 pieces. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Could ropes support us as powerfully as wood? I may not think that’s possible until I saw Jon Fraser’s chair made from merely 80 meters of rope. It’s both simple and functional. To make the chair usable and durable, the rope is soaked in polyurethane resin and cured into 20 unique profiles. Clever. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Things will be totally different if without Fabian Bernhard and Thomas Burkard: before the item is merely a stretcher but soon after it becomes a chair leaning against the wall to keep its steadibility. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is not merely a chair as we see. It may be our grandmother, comforting us with her warm arms; it may be our best friends, encouraging us with their powerful arms; or it may be our lover, always offering a loving clasp whenever we feel depressed. It is the Arms Chair, a chair with arms to accompany us. [Read the rest of this entry...]
A good designer always tries to see the matter from users’ points of view. When they frequently need to recharge their USB-powered items, a U-socket USB Wallplug is created. If they wish to squeeze past lines of seats easily and comfortably, fold-down seat that offer much more space is then designed. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Why hasn’t someone thought of the idea before? Indeed an ideal portable chair is expected to be a pocket chair! It’s lightweight but durable to hold up to 250lbs. It’s small enough and therefore allows you to take it anywhere. It’s also convenient for use while never costs you too much money. Sounds nice, huh? Go and get one then. [Read the rest of this entry...]
If you seldom remember to hang up your coats properly onto racks but instead lay them over chairs, the Coat Check Chair may be quite useful and helpful. It is constructed with merely common plastic hangers and steel bars, and therefore to achieve its two aims: remind the users to hang up their coats properly and let them conveniently find hangers. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This purely white chair with a skull carved in the seat back recently appeared in Milan, Italy and via such a unique design its designer aims to advise people to cherish their life more as years slip by really fast. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Anything that can change to meet our different needs is undoubtedly always welcome, and right here we’d like to introduce this Rubix Transformer Furniture Set created by Dosunodesign. It consists of three chairs and one table: the chairs can be adjusted to a proper height according to the users’ various needs, and the table would work as a tea table or a dinning table in different situations. So great! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Whatever it may be- a chair or a table -it should be deemed more like an artistic work rather than furniture when it comes in the same shape and even function of a brilliant cut diamond. Called Random8 is, this chair can reflect and color the light that is hitting it and passing through it, and as a result creates a fantastic vision effect to amaze its users. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Just admit the fact that this Movable Chair is really a great design! A chair that can move everywhere will always ensure us a comfortable seating and using wherever we go… and what’s more, the chair also comes with a detachable table so that one can conveniently place their laptops or books on it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Looking for something to surprise all your friends and guests? Sofa XXXX is rightly the thing you’ll need. [Read the rest of this entry...]
“What you want to sit on is nothing–like you’re supported by air”, sticking to that concept, Ben Alun-jones comes up with the Affinity Chair that features invisibility. The chair is not really invisible, but reflects its surroundings with the help of plastic acrylic sheets in conjunction with one-way mirror film. It is also built with ultrasonic sensors activate pulsing LEDs, which acts faster as the visitors come nearer while stops glowing when someone sits onto it. [Read the rest of this entry...]
I love coffee. And I would love to enjoy a warm afternoon with coffee and this Coffee Cup Chair. It has a cute shape, which makes the chair especially perfect for coffee bars. Just imagine how fantastic it will be to live in a world with sweet coffee and anything that is relative to coffee… At least it’s a world I’ve dreamed of. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Maximo Riera has cleverly combined animals with furniture, and the Octopus Chair is just the first piece of the Animal Chair collection. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Unlike common wooden furniture that features a solid design, the Restless Legs by Carolien Laro will change its shape when you sit onto it. Even though seems rather simple on the pictures, the chair actually costs the designer hundreds of hours. Really a tough work. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Not all chairs can serve as a fitness apparatus, but we could at least turn to the GymyGym to see a case in which the chair plays a utilitarian role. It uses a patented flat-bungee seating system, offering four exercise stations to relax or strengthen all your major muscles. So with one such chair, you can always enjoy a fitness time even throughout your work days. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Who would ever know what you’ll find between or underneath the sofa cushions? A coin, a remote controller or a book you’ve been looking for? Or maybe more than those, if you’re with the Lost In Sofa chair designed by Daisuke Motogi Architecture. Featuring small cubes to form the seat, the new furniture can hold almost everything you insert into it so that you can conveniently reach for a book, a pen or even a cup of coffee during the leisure time. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]
See what happens when the players no longer stand on their feet but simply sit on a chair to move upon the surface of the water, the results are really remarkable… Entitled as Air Chair, the new system seems to have made the sport of water skiing an easy task for the players, but actually the chair is not that easy to control, so you may need to have some sea water before you handle this chair. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Muybridge Chairs must have played the same trick as that of the Fade-Out Chair, using transparent material to make the real chair legs while letting you see other legs that are seemingly moving. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Honestly nothing could pull me out of my warm blankets whenever the winter comes. But in the approaching winter, I would have one more choice and it is the Quilt-wrapped Cocon Armchair created by Celine Merhand and Anaïs Morel. Wrapped with an ultra soft quilt, the Cocon looks quite attractive on the pictures and we bet it will also function well in your rooms. So simply open the Cocon, zip the quilt together and then you can enjoy a warm reading, lounging or even daydreaming. Doesn’t that sound nice? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Embedded with the inspiration of social and cultural meanings of teasing, the Kickin from Jamie Yeo is an innovative piece of furniture that can help to bring people close to each other. When used individually, the furniture is just like a rocking chair for one person, but accommodates two or more people when several individual ones are combined together. Or you can bring many of these together and create yourself a cozy bed. Well, all that sounds so good. [Read the rest of this entry...]
TravelTeq is an aluminum suitcase that can fold into a smart chair whenever the users want to take a seat. So with TravelTeq, you can have a comfortable seating and sleeping anywhere and at any time. Considering your frequent use of a laptop, the TravelTeq also comes with a small protective case. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Can you imagine that the simple Loop Chair can be arranged in 12 different ways? Let the pictures tell you how to do that: simply fold the hinges and fix the shape with special connectors, you can have the furniture change into various states, from a television chair to a bookshelf, from a chaise-lounge to a barstool. Isn’t that interesting? You should also have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Pascal Anson is not a magician but apparently he does amazing magic tricks as the magicians do. “The Balance” is an innovative chair from the designer, who has managed to let the chair stand on one leg, two legs and of course also four legs. So how could the chair do that? Continue with the video below and you’ll then get the answer. [Read the rest of this entry...]
One person needs merely one bench and two friends can share one bench, but what if there’re more than three people looking for a seat at the same time? They need the Sliding Bench. Designed for public places like parks or squares, the Sliding includes a set of chairs can move on the bars to meet the users’ different needs. As a result, you can still have a private space in the public place. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Constructed from five square and triangular pillows, the sofa bed from designer Zuzana Šišovská can easily transform into a couch, a bed and a sofa to offer you different ways for relaxing. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Do we need a radiator to keep our ass warm in the cold winter? You may think that’s a stupid question, but the Dutch designer Jeroen Wesselink does think it’s necessary to make himself a Radiator Chair. And he has created one using discarded radiators. It’s welded to get the shape of zig-zag chair and still features an interface letting heat pass through to warm your back and ass. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Ergonomically designed, the Integrative Chair aims at handicapped kids aging between three and six who need certain help to overcome their physical disability in various activities. The chair features an adjustable seat, the height and shape of which can be easily changed according to the kids’ different needs like having dinners or playing toys. The mobile chair also has a cantilever system to absorb violent movement, so as to ensure the kids a comfortable and safety using. Apart from those, the chair’s outer surface is also a toy, which can be painted with chalks without leaving traces after cleaning. [Read the rest of this entry...]
