Our good friends over at Resource Furniture put together this short video showing transforming furniture’s past and present. The vintage footage illustrates this type of furniture is hardly a new idea. People have been designing furniture to maximize the use.
We would be remiss to not sing the praises of architect Gary Chang’s “Domestic Transformer” Hong Kong apartment–probably the world’s best known transforming apartment. Its ingenious design produces function and a sense of space totally inconsistent with its tiny footprint. The back-story.
French designer Paul Menand re-imagines the stacking chair with Paul Menand Triplette Chair his “Triplette Chair.” Menand interlocks the 3 precision-made chairs into one, thereby eliminating the gaps and empty spaces that can decrease the overall usable volume of a room. See.