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New York City Stoop Bench

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New York City Stoop Bench is a multifunctional piece of furniture that could be easily shifted between a bench and a stair. Just as shown in the pictures, it could flip over to change into a stair mode or double-bench mode, easy as that! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Multi-functional Furniture for Kids

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Your little boys want a changing table to showcase their Transformers, his cute girls ask for enough drawers for storing their skirts, while her naughty baby needs a crib… Yups, different people need different things, but the Multi-functional Furniture by Adensen Furniture is rightly something every parent has dreamed of. Especially designed for kids up to 10 years old, the smart furniture could be changed into a crib, a table, storage drawers, shelves, and a bigger bed, etc. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hydrofloors Create a Swimming Pool inside the room.

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The first time I looked at the Hydrofloors, I thought the thing shouldn’t exist, coz more and more people including me would go crazy! Compared with luxury swimming pools, the hidden pool created by Hydrofloors is more attractive, magnificent and of course more expensive. Whenever you’d like to swim, you can easily make the floors sink into the ground to a needed depth, using a control panel. Cool as that!

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Twist Chair

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A seat, a backrest and even a simple writing desk, Miray Oktem’s “Twist Chair” is something that that would offer a comfortable and interesting seat especially for bookworms and PC users. It supports the user’s body in upper chest and forehead, allowing them to comfortably lean on the backrest for an easy reading or viewing through the hole. According to the designers, the seat would “extend towards the support to create a saddle like shape that transforms into a seat while sitting in a lower angle”. Its seat height, support height and forehead support height can be adjusted to fit different users. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Pavone’ Transformable Furniture

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Showcased at the Fifth Annual Competition SaloneSatellite WorldWide held in Moscow, the ‘Pavone’ furniture has attracted much attention, because of its smart and transformable design. Finished in a fabric and metal frame, the Pavone could easily switch between a table and an armchair via simple sliding, in order to meet the user’s different needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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FlexibleLove Virgin

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Incorporating an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure, the FlexibleLove Virgin by Chishen Chiu could accommodate a seating for 8 to 16 people at one time. The product line now consists of two different kinds of FlexibleLove, the Earth 8 and the Earth 16. Both of them are made of recycled materials like the recycled paper, recycled wood waste, etc. When given a simple pull at each end, the furniture could be easily transformed into a semicircular or a circular-shaped seating to hold as many as 16 people. But when folded up, it measures merely one tenths of that. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Grow Space For Kids

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All the kids around the world should thank the h2o Architects a lot, as they’ve come up with the piece of multi-use furniture to create you a multifunctional space for you to play, to rest and to study in.

The entire piece is designed to be shared by two children. To meet your kids’ various requirements, Eva’s Bed consists of stairs, aisles, shelves, tables, beds and other pieces of furniture. But perhaps the most attractive feature is the modular design enabling the users to rearrange the multiple spaces when they grow up. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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A Chair now, and A Stool later!

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‘Fold’ by Fredrik Farg is an innovative set of chair that could be easily transformed into a stool through simple folding. So what are you waiting for? Fold your chair and share the stool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Drop’ Convertible Seat

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An Italian designer Leonardo Perugi created the ‘Drop’, a convertible seat that could be transformed into a lounge, a sofa, a bed and more, according to your different needs. Featuring a geometric fit, the multifunctional furniture is quite a simple design without any fastening devices. Made from polyurethane foam, the lightweight furniture could also be disassembled into three parts, allowing you to easily take it anywhere. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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The Bloomframe Window-Balcony

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Actually, you may have guessed the answer: the special thing about the window is that it also doubles as a spacious balcony if expanded. And that’s really a clever and practical way to enlarge interior space. The Bloomframe ‘balcony-on-demand’ system is made from particularly solid materials so that it would be absolutely safe for even the fattest people to stand on it. It is not merely a brilliant concept, but real products on the market. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Coffee Table

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A coffee table then and a dinning table now, it’s actually merely one table that functions in two different ways. Just pull up the coffee table’s surface, fix it at a certain height and then you can use it as a dinning table. So easy! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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A chair with stretchable arms

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Look, the armchair wants to hug you! Designed with two stretchable ‘arms’, the chair could be easily transformed into a chaise longue when you need more space and as a result to make you feel comfortable in every positions. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Changeable Bookcase 

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Maybe it’s the naughtiest bookcase you’ve ever met. Quite unlike others, this shelf wouldn’t stay steady but constantly changes when you put books onto it. For that reason, the shelf’s form is all decided by how many books you put on it and where you’d like they’re placed.

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Easy-packing Table

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Good news for dead beat ! To allow you to tidy up your workbench in just few seconds especially when you’re visited by some big guns, Line Depping has created the easy-packing table that can take in any sundries. Or CDs, or books, such a table is enough.

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Transformer Robot

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A car then, a robot now, and then a car again, has transformer Optimus Prime come out of the movie? In fact, it’s a real transformer robot that is well constructed to morph into a robot from a motorized truck. Though it looks much smaller with a bare12 inches tall than those big guys in “Transformer Ⅱ”, it’s still worth watching. Let’s see more on Youtube.

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