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A Changing Wooden Chair

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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...]

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Inculta Bench Keeps Dry All The Time.

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Rain water never bothers the users of the Inculta Bench, because they can easily make the bench dry and clean again with the squeegee on the other side. So simply pull the squeegee, wipe the water and you can enjoy a comfortable rest. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Balloon + Bomb” Coat Racks

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In 1945 the first atom bomb was set off over Hiroshima and 65years later the first coat rack made to memorize the atomic bombings of Hiroshima becomes quite popular on the internet. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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VW Beetle Sofa

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The VW Beetle Sofa is a new piece of furniture that comes with a cute look as that of the classic Volkswagen Beetle cars. Especially ideal for Beetle fans, these lovely sofas will definitely give your room a new look and even realize your wishful dreams of having a VW Beetle exhibited in the apartment! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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FLOAT Table

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RockPaperRobot’s FLOAT was brought to our notice due to its changing shapes. Constructed from 64 magnetically levitating cubes, the FLOAT would change its sizes and shapes when you put some items onto it, but retains equilibrium in common conditions with the help of a system of tensile steel cables. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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GymyGym Fitness Chair

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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...]

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The Dressed Up Furniture

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Kamkam was seen someday with many fasten buttons and leather buckles lying on the tables, however they were not made for clothes but for a series of furniture themed of “Dressed-up Furniture”. Look, the stools, wardrobes and benches now all have a new look and they seem really perfect for kids and girls. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Recycled Refrigerator + Couch = Fridgecouch

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A luxurious but cheap couch does not always exist in IKEA, sometimes it may rightly stand in your apartment. When looking for something creative for a close friend’s wedding, Adrian Johnson came up with an idea to build a couch with a discarded refrigerator and a vintage BMW two-door coupe. And the finished item looks fine in both appearance and functions, just as shown in the pictures. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Looks Like Your Back, Neatly Holds Your Book

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Apparently the new bookcase from designer Pietro Travaglini seems not that unique or attractive on the first sight, but when you step backwards with each modular having a new position, and then you’ll find the Schiena Bookcase makes your books look really wonderful. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lost In Sofa Chair

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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...]

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Rhapsody Children’s Beds

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Almost no words are needed, and just look at the pictures you’ll know clearly what the Rhapsody Children’s Beds can offer: a comfortable bed for resting, a slider for entertainment, cute toys and delicate decorations… All those have built a fantastic dream world for your kids! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Zip Bed

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For those who have kept seeking for an easiest way to have their table tidy up, we once introduced the Easy-packing Table, and now to help you make the beds more conveniently, we’d like to show you the Zip Bed. It is a new piece from the Italian company Florida Furniture and features a zipper running around the frame for you to unzip to reveal a cozy bed or zip up to hide crumpled sheets. Yeah, housewives can then have an extra opportunity to rest. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Equilibrium Bookshelf

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The bookshelf here, the Equilibrium is designed to surprise your guests with a unique shape seeking for briefness, contrast and exaggeration as well. Though seems to defy the gravity, the Equilibrium Bookcase is in reality quite solid and it can sustain over 50 kilograms at one time. So it is really a nice alternative for your stylish living room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What’s this?

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This time we’ll firstly tell you that this is something made of black rubber and then it’s your turn to tell us what the item is used for? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Running Chairs

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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...]

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iPad-equipped Salsa Table

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Designed for Vanerum, an educational design consultancy, Bram Boo’s Salsa is a creative table set embedded with four iPad interactive systems that allow the users to share information and ideas when sit separately. Therefore you can just communicate via the screens if you do not want a talk in the public places. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Curv Transformable Furniture

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What would you want to have if your apartment can accommodate merely one piece of furniture? You’ll need something stylish, multifunctional and also environmentally friendly at the same time, right? Then what you’re looking for is rightly the Curv. Getting an inspiration from the 1960’s era, the furniture set features a simple shape but can be used in many different ways: a set of table and a chair, a dinning table, a workstation and also a relaxing cocoon. So whatever you may need, change the furniture and done. Easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Quilt-wrapped Cocon Armchair

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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...]

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Fossa Sofa by Aurélien Barbry for COR

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You’d like to create a new image of sofas? Then have a look at what Aurélien Barbry has made for COR. It is the Fossa Sofa that comes with several cushions and slots, and therefore it will change roles whenever you add the cushions into or simply move them inside the slots. To sum up, Aurélien Barbry creates the changes, Fossa Sofa makes the changes and you guys will enjoy the changes. Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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WOW Transformable Sofa

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Ideal for compact city apartments, the WOW sofa from Campeggi features a smart button and presents a plain design. But the most innovative point behind the furniture lies in the fact that it can open into a bed when you give the button a slight press. You see, that’s really cool and fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Rotating Squares Table

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Just look at the Rotating Squares Table, it’s obviously another piece of furniture meant for the “must-have” of your grocery lists. Constructed from 16 small squares, the table can open up to 1.4 times of its original size when these small squares are moved. Maybe also due to that magic rotating squares method, the table wears a surprising price of more than £2000 though it is simply made from oiled birch plywood. So the price must have made the table “one of the most expensive pieces” in your furniture collection, too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Kickin Rocking Chair

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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...]

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Growing Bookshelf

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Of course the bookshelf holds your books, but more importantly, it also grows to accommodate more books. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Loop Chair

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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...]

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Chair That Stands On One Foot.

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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...]

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Ripple Effect Tea Table

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Inspired by the idea that small changes of individual objects can be a big impact on the whole, Korean designers Seo Jeonghwa and Hanna Chung have collaborated the ‘ripple effect’ tea table that features a water layer on the top to make ripples when the users move cups on it. As a result, both your movements and the cups’ movements will cause a change on the table. Isn’t that interesting? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Relax Furniture

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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...]

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Plant Shaped Bar Stools

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Entitled as “The Plant”, these bar stools designed by Svilen Gamolov each has an elegant shape, just as the real plants do. They’re made up of fiberglass with fabric upholster, and acryl, each measuring 86 cm in height, 50 cm in width and 50 cm in depth. But will you feel that you’re sitting on a tree when you’re seated on such Plant shaped stools? Do tell me your feelings when you see them in a bar. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Somnys” Multiuse Furniture

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Despite that we cannot dedicate a pretty serious amount of space to large furniture like beds and tables so as to accommodate our guests, we can still create them a comfortable “living room” with the “Somnys” transformer furniture. Designed by Fabien Rolland, the modular coffee table can pack flat for easy storage when not in use while transform into a guest bed when needed. It’s also easy to assemble and collapse, allowing the users to convert it from a table into a bed in quite a short time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Radiator Chair

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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...]

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Magic Mini World

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We’ll all live in a different world, in a neurotic fairy-tale world full of mini-sized furniture and items as those Alice has seen in Wonderland. Because designer Robert Therrien has already created some really huge tables, chairs and dishes that are about three times as big as usual ones. So do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Table Set Design

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What would happen if we combine the plates and dinning table together? Having that question in mind, Elad Kashi has spent much time designing an innovative table and finally come up with the Table Set. It is a round table built with several ceramic plates on the top so that the users can directly put the dishes onto them without having to serve extra plates. Those plates are also removable, allowing for easy cleaning and installing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Kale Furniture Unit Can Transform Into Toys

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Many things can conspire against parents when they try to ready their kids for the future, so one can often see the kids and their parents argue over trivial matters like how to deal with the toys. Fortunately, the Kale furniture has come to mediate that dispute. It’s a toy for kids and a sofa for the adults, so you can easily turn piles of building blocks into a comfortable sofa after your kids have played with them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Stylish Wardrobe That Dresses Like A Man.

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To express their heartfelt respects to the garment industry, Capo d’ Opera has recently designed a series of hanging storage units that dress shirts or hand-knit sweaters just as we human do. And the cabinets are held together using a zipper or buttons, making them look like real clothing for men. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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My Tables Can Fold Into The Wall.

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Tables are needed furniture but they’re usually also bulky, so you have to dedicate quite a large amount of space to them. And that’s why tables and especially the long tables are often tough to fit in small apartments. Except these tables created by Ochre. The designers solved that problem by folding the tables into the wall when they’re not in use, therefore offering you a spacious room for other activities. When you want a table, just pull them out of the wall and you can use them as a dining table or a work bench. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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We’re Not Paper Shelves.

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There is an element of surprise in the “Levita” shelf, an interesting piece of decor and furniture created by Alessandro Loschiavo. But do not let the images or the designer fool your eyes, because these A4 paper sheets are actually a series of hammered sheet metal planes. So the shelf is really durable though people may take it as a fragile one. It indeed looks like an art piece, but the shelf is also practical for frequent use. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Integrative Chair for Handicapped Kids

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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...]

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Happy Window, Happy View

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On a fine afternoon, put the books aside, open the Happy Window and have a pleasant chatting with your buddies when enjoying the beautiful scenery outside—what could be better than that? Just start an easy life with the “Happy Window”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Kruikantoor Portable Office

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If you’re one of the starting entrepreneurs, you must thank Tim Vinke for the Kruikantoor Portable Office. It is a sectional furniture set, comprising a table, two chairs, storage electricity connection and light. But its most important feature is the built-in wheels, which enable the users to move the furniture around with minimum fuss. Made in polystyrene with a hotspray polyurea coating, the “Kruikantoor” promises a low price but a high practicability. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Stylish Round Bookshelf

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The exceptional round shape and bright white/red colors give Kim Ji-hye’s bookshelf a refreshing look, making it quite outstanding among all the bookshelves we’ve ever seen. But what actually makes the bookshelf special and unique is its “Need Not Arrange Anymore” concept—no longer need to keep the books well-organized, just enjoy the chaotic status of putting books freely. I love the idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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