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Tower Your Kid’s Learning and Imagination with this Multipurpose Modular Bookshelf

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In today’s digital age, fostering a love for reading and encouraging a child’s imagination can be challenging. However, a groundbreaking product has emerged that not only solves the issue of storage but also transforms children’s rooms into a realm of creativity and exploration. The rotating picture book rack for 1200 books, is a unique and versatile piece of furniture that is more than just a bookshelf—it’s a big toy in the house.

Designer: Waiting Woood (China)

The cool part about this innovative bookshelf is its modular design, carefully crafted to adapt to a child’s growing needs. With adjustable height options, it ensures that children of various ages can easily access their favorite books without the risk of climbing and falling. This not only ensures their safety but also reduces the need for frequent furniture replacements as they grow.

The magic of this bookshelf lies in its ability to transform into various imaginative structures using architectural vocabulary. Children can turn it into a “skyscraper,” a “doll castle,” or even a “drifting car.” This feature encourages kids to actively participate in the construction process, igniting their spirit of exploration and nurturing their creativity.

The rotating picture book rack offers four different shape designs, serving as a powerful tool for enhancing shape cognition. Providing various compartments for book storage, promotes children’s classification and storage habits from a young age. Organizing books becomes an enjoyable and educational task, teaching children valuable skills.

Not only is this bookshelf innovative in design, but it also prioritizes environmental responsibility. The main structure is constructed using FSC-certified beech wood, emphasizing sustainability in its production. The use of semi-transparent color acrylic panels reduces the overall consumption of natural wood while adding a touch of vibrancy to the design.

The plug-in type installation of the acrylic panels is not only simple and fast but also serves to cultivate children’s color perception and light perception as they interact with the varying hues and levels of transparency. This dual function makes it an ideal choice for eco-conscious parents who want to introduce their children to eco-friendly practices and aesthetics.

The bookshelf bayonet design is compatible with expansion accessories, allowing for customization and personalization. By adding different “hats” to the bookshelf, children can transform it into various styles to keep things fresh and exciting. This feature also enables children to create their DIY knowledge base, promoting a sense of ownership and pride in their space.

In conclusion, the rotating picture book rack for 1200 books is a remarkable piece of furniture that transcends its primary function as a bookshelf. It combines safety, creativity, cognitive development, eco-friendliness, and personalization into one cohesive design. This innovative product not only promotes a love for reading but also inspires young minds to explore, imagine, and create in a world of endless possibilities. It’s more than just a piece of furniture; it’s a gateway to a world of learning and adventure.

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This modular lounge chair brings some of the comforts of home to the office

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Attitudes about the workplace have shifted and changed over the past years. From cubicles to open floor plans and back again, office space often fluctuates between technical, efficient places for productivity and cozy, inspiring spaces for humans. This has become especially evident in recent months as people started going back to offices after having adjusted to the comforts and challenges of working from home. While it’s definitely not advisable to bring the entire WFH setting to a communal workspace, it might be possible to integrate some of those more favorable elements into office design. That’s exactly what this furniture collection, and especially this lounge chair tries to offer, helping people bounce back into work life while still enjoying some of the conveniences and privacy they had at home.

Designer: Anthony Chupp

When people around the world were forced to start working from home instead of the office, many struggled to adjust and cope. Over time, however, workers and their families have developed strategies and tools that helped them remain productive despite all the distractions and temptations at home. Now the pendulum swings in the opposite direction, and people are trying to re-adjust to working from the office while also yearning for the positive experiences they had from working at home.

“Rebound” is a furniture collection that tries to bring those traits to the office, focusing primarily on properties like privacy and personalization, something that has almost become rare in many open floor plans today. The Kona lounge chair is the most interesting member of this group, looking like something you wouldn’t expect inside an office. It’s a design that exhibits not only flexibility but also convenience and comfort that is more associated with home furniture instead.

Kona’s base is a short, cylindrical pouf that, on its own, is already an attractive piece in any room. It combines with curved backrests of different heights that add both back support as well as an accent to the chair. That back support is covered with wool felt that acts as a sound-absorbing material to create an acoustically private space around the person sitting on the chair. The back support can also stand on its own and be placed behind any regular office chair to serve as a privacy backdrop for video calls as well.

The collection also includes a modular shelf that brings a level of customization you wouldn’t normally expect from office furniture. There are also acoustic panels that are designed to dampen background noise while doing video calls. These pieces of furniture represent the changing needs of office workers, particularly with the prevalence of video calls as part of regular office life. It also reflects a growing desire to create more private spaces they can personalize, something that, ironically, the old cubicle-style workplace offered to some extent.

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Create furniture with this experimental wooden clip system

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If you asked me to build a piece of furniture from scratch, I probably would not be able to make something that will actually hold together. If I could tape or clip things together, then I can probably come up with a decent piece although whether it will actually hold together to be functional is another matter. But there are furniture designers and makers have been experimenting with other ways to build furniture aside from the usual nails, glues, screws, and other electric tools.

Designer: ClipHut

A German design studio has now come up with an experimental system where you can clip furniture together, just like you would clip a helmet to your head with a chinstrap. They’ve been researching and experimenting for five years already and now they’re finally showcasing the result at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. What we’re seeing is a wooden hut and a freestanding bar that uses their wooden clip system and all you need is a rubber hammer and your two hands.

The system consists of horizontal and vertical planks that are made from OSB or oriented strand board. The horizontal ones have evenly shaped holes while the vertical ones have edges that are shaped like clips. The two will be able to interlock at different points so think of it like a modular lego set that you can put together, only this time you’re building actual furniture and maybe later on bigger structures. Their original prototype was a shelter but for now, they’re focused on building furniture sets.

 

The next step will be launching a furniture kit so you’ll be able to create different pieces of furniture, aside from the ones they’re displaying at the Dutch Design Week. A kit will be able to make a bookshelf, a TV stand, or a corner unit. It is more of a DIY kind of kit although there is an instruction manual that you can use. The more you play around with it, the more you can build your own custom furniture and maybe eventually a full house.

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A sustainable modular seating designed for the privacy-stricken post-pandemic workforce

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The pandemic has given birth to a seclusion workforce that is now more concerned about safe distancing and privacy. Privacy is more than a buzzword; it is perhaps a necessity these days, especially on open office floors. The workforce is used to private, secluded work life at home; transitioning to the social lifestyle in an open office theme is going to take a while.

For this mindset of post-pandemic office goers, designer Dymitr Malcew has designed what is a flexible, private seating solution. Dymitr is a Singapore-based designer and architect reckoned in the crowd for his human-centric furniture and structures. There have been many future-forward designs of desks and private residences that the designer has idealized over time. But what really stands out in his portfolio – and aligns with the furniture collection in discussion – is the cubicles finished with interactive screens and modular furniture to function as meeting rooms in cramped office spaces.

Designer: Dymitr Malcew

Just personalizing the concept further, Dymitr has arrived at soft upholstered, comfy seating collection to create a private but friendly atmosphere. Dubbed Futo, the furniture collection is designed for DYD. It’s a flexible option that touches the tangent of lounge furniture and blurs the line between hospitality-ready and office furniture. This is reminiscent of its appearance, which first up reminds of the high-back, overpowering furniture common in hotel lobbies. The curvy and preferably organic Futo collection offers users psychological safety (by providing seclusion in space) in addition to snugly comfort.

By offering the workforce flexible office furniture, Futo collection can be used in various configurations. The modularity is backed by sustainable construction and ensures private working zones and common meeting spaces without much fuss of rebuilds. So, it’s a given, that with the Futo – available in vibrant color options – offices will be able to optimize performance and workforce well-being with this one particular furniture collection.

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Summit is modular furniture for various office purposes

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Now that a lot of companies are going back to work at the office, people have to adjust to being with other people in real life again. Some things that were previously simple, like meetings and even socializing, have to be re-learned after two years of working from home. Expect a lot of team-building and other activities that will teach us to be with other people again. It looks like even furniture can help us adjust back to life at the office.

Designer: Snøhetta

Summit is modular furniture that is designed using a geometric building block system that lets you turn it into a piece of furniture that would fit your needs. It is made up of five modules that can be assembled and re-assembled into various levels, curves, and directions, either in small or bigger installations. So whether you need furniture for a lecture, a meeting, or an office break where you can chat with your colleagues, this furniture can turn into what you need.

The furniture is cushioned and comfortable enough, whatever you arrange it to be. The design can resemble those social amphitheaters that we see in open parks or even the Spanish Steps in Rome. You can also turn it into an “indoor mountain range” if you need something that is leveled. Summit lets you create an interior landscape that you can explore in your workspace without needing to bring in other pieces of furniture.

The renders show that there are outlets in some parts of the modular furniture in case you need to charge devices while chatting with colleagues. It comes in different, comfortable-looking colors as well, like red, green, blue, and gray. Despite it being modular, Summit is a minimalistic piece of furniture, from the upholstery to the stitching to the cushioning. I wouldn’t mind coming in to work and lounging on it during our break times.

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This modular furniture building system takes an artistic approach to construct functional and playful pieces

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Deku is a modular furniture building system composed of wooden planks that fasten together at the planks’ 45-degree, pyramid-shaped edges.

While modular furniture is functional by design, it also evokes the designer’s most creative tendencies. In time with our world’s rapid WFH movement and mobile lifestyles, the emergence of modular furniture has redefined what our living spaces could look and feel like.

Designer: Takuto Ohta

Combining their artistic skills with the practical edge of an industrial designer, Takuto Ohta designed Deku, a modular furniture system comprised of wooden planks that can be stacked and configured together to form numerous different furniture pieces, from tabletops to benches.

Named after the Japanese word for wooden puppet or doll, Deku is inspired by the stone piles that wash ashore on riverbanks. In creating Deku, Ohta sharpened the ends of each wooden plank to form 45-degree angles, allowing each wooden plank to slink into one another with ease.

This triangular building system is essentially what allows for so many different configurations to be made from Deku. Using colorful masking tape to fasten each module together, Ohta was able to add some playfulness to the project’s overall display and assembly process.

Using human instinct as their natural guide for building each piece of furniture, Ohta notes, “I don’t think about what I’m making, I feel the laws of physics in the freedom and inconvenience of combination, and I see the forest with the smell and texture of trees. When I moved my hand, the furniture was made naturally.” In the development of Deku, Ohta seems to find the human’s most primal desire: to play and fill the gaps.

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Your childhood fort gets a grownup upgrade with this modular desk design

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If you have ever felt the need to just hide under your desk once in a while, this multi-purpose desk might be something you wish you had.

Most of us probably have fond memories of the favorite games we played in our childhood. For some, those might be formal games or even sports, but even non-structured activities like “make-believe” and building forts have a significant impact during our formative years. Those “secret bases” have sometimes even brought us a sense of comfort and security that we may have lost in our adulthood. A designer is trying to bring back those feelings with an adult version of those secret forts, but one that can actually be useful when you’re actually adulting.

Designer: Juhee Park

OK, few adults will probably admit to having the urge to hide under their desks, even if some really want to. They might, however, be more amenable to a desk that transforms into a semblance of their cardboard forts and secret bases from decades past. Being adults, even the young at heart, this desk has to actually be usable, of course. Bonus points if it’s also somewhat sustainable and eco-friendly.

Made mostly from wood, the Com.odo almost looks like a kid’s play desk blown up into adult size. It also looks like an unfinished carpentry project, complete with white markings that indicate directions. Those are directions, indeed, and their sometimes indecipherable instructions clue you into the different ways you can transform this functional furniture into a fun fort.

The drawer, for example, swings outward to provide more space under the desk in case you do want to squeeze yourself inside. The centerpiece, however, is the chair that you can topple over and push the seat backward to turn it into a makeshift floor lounge chair. If cramped floor seats lined with faux fur are your thing, this kind of convertible chair might be right up your alley.

Com.odo is definitely an intriguing concept that feels both ingenious and ridiculous in equal degrees. On the one hand, it doesn’t look too comfortable, and the complexity of its many different parts might discourage people from actually taking advantage of those. On the other hand, it definitely looks fun, at least in discovering those various options, and does convey a feeling of a secret base that only you know how to operate. In that sense, this transforming, modular desk accomplishes what it set out to do, to encourage the young at heart to discover fun even in the most mundane things.

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This minimal hanging wall art actually transforms into a modular sofa unit fit for every living room!

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The Summit Sofa is a dual-purpose, modular furniture design that blends a changeable, functional couch together with a minimalist piece of artwork.

Like every worthwhile lifestyle change, downsizing to meet the demands of tiny living comes with its own set of challenges. The secret to making the most of tiny spaces comes down to finding the right furniture. Following the surge in popularity of tiny living, designers have come out with versatile and modular furniture products to make tiny living feel spacious without taking up too much space. The Summit Sofa from Mousarris, a Cyprus-based interior design company, redefines what versatile and modular furniture can look like, merging artwork and functional furniture into a single design.

Dual-purposed by design, the Summit Sofa is made up of curved cushions with integrated magnets that allow them to attach to one another to form different sofa configurations and the sofa’s main magnetic board to create a minimalist piece of wall artwork. When propped up on its magnetic base, the Summit Sofa’s sinuous cushion modules fit into one another like pieces to a puzzle. When users would like to create their own sofa, they can remove the cushions from the magnetic base and attach modules together to create countless configurations. When the modules are attached to the base, the user’s living and floor areas remain clear for plenty of space. Then, on movie nights or when guests arrive, the Summit Sofa can be detached from the magnetic base to become a sofa.

Sometimes the most practical furniture isn’t the most beautiful. Tiny living shouldn’t mean compromising your taste in interior design for functionality. With Mousarris’s Summit Sofa, you won’t have to sacrifice aesthetics just to save space. When displayed on the magnetic board, the Summit Sofa creates a minimalist display of artwork to tie any room together. Then, when used as furniture, the Summit Sofa can be configured in any arrangement to fit your room and taste.

Designer: Mousarris

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This versatile furniture concept features a sliding grid system that saves and creates space!

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Square to Square is a versatile furniture system for the modern home built on an internal and external sliding grid mechanism to save and create space.

Squares are known for the versatile nature of their shapes. It’s said that Le Corbusier saw squares as “the most refined and pure form in nature,” as young designer Kyungseon Nam puts it. Setting out to design a furniture system concept based on the multidimensionality of the square, Nam developed Square to Square.

Initially structured as a solid block, functional as a table or ottoman, Square to Square can turn into a full dining table or workspace setup. Built around an internal sliding grid system, Square to Square transforms from one configuration to the next with seamless transitions.

Square to Square’s initial form is divided between four quadrants that contain their own internal sliding grid system with hidden pull-out shelves and integrated cushioned booths. Positioned on top of an external sliding grid system, the hidden booth components of Square to Square can be pulled from each quadrant to reveal a four-person dining table setup.

Then, from each corner booth, a lower cushioned shelf can be pulled out to provide a resting place for your pets or even your feet. Each quadrant also contains spring mechanics that unload an elevated desk space that could function as a standing desk or raised shelf. Underneath the spring-loaded desk space, Nam incorporated a storage compartment where goods can be stored even when the optional desk space isn’t raised.

Taking advantage of the square’s chameleonic creative possibilities, Nam was able to conceptualize a multifunctional furniture system that not only saves space but creates space. Transforming from a solid, blank cube into a live-and-work space that also doubles as a dining area, Square to Square is the versatile and space-saving furniture system for the modern home.

Designer: Kyungseon Nam

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This transforming robotic furniture descending from the ceiling to take your home from bedroom to living room!

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‘The Smile,’ a new apartment complex in East Harlem designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) features smart furniture systems comprised of stow-away storage units, bed frames, workspaces, and wardrobes that rise into and fall from the ceiling on command.

Technology is changing the way we live in cities. Electric scooters and bullet trains are replacing city buses, while public spaces are relying on AI and smart technology for contactless services. In New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood, a new apartment complex called, ‘The Smile’ from BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) integrates a smart, modular furniture system from Bumblebee Spaces into each apartment to take full advantage of each living unit’s full cubic space.

Built around a grid that’s mounted to each unit’s ceiling, the modular furniture systems are comprised of storage cabinets and bed frames that rise and descend according to the changing needs of each resident. When a component of the system isn’t in use, it rises and disappears into the ceiling to enlargen the unit’s available living space. Then, when one is needed, the furniture system recognizes voice commands, remote controls, and programmed settings to initiate a component’s descent from the ceiling to the unit’s floor.

For example, after waking up in the morning, residents can command the bed to merge with the ceiling to conceal it from view. Then, in the same way, residents can instruct for modules like customized workspaces and drawers to lower down from the ceiling for access during the day. Crafted from wood, the furniture system brings a touch of comfort to each unit, giving the apartment’s industrial backdrop some organic warmth. Like a robotic housekeeper, Bumblebee’s furniture system also remembers where residents left certain pieces of furniture or smaller belongings so looking for your keys won’t keep you from getting a move on.

BIG’s ‘The Smile,’ located in New York City’s East Harlem currently features 163 market-rate and 70 affordable apartments, the latter group reserved for mid and low-income residents. While the furniture system, designed by former Tesla and Apple engineers, is currently only available in five units, the future of smart living is surely on its way to every city.

Designer: Bumblebee Spaces x BIG

Each module can be outfitted for specific purposes, from workspaces to wardrobes. 

Integrated organizational systems make each module easy to navigate. 

Residents can control their smart furniture system from their smartphones.