Flat-Pack Furniture for an All-in-One Interior Design. Flat pack designs are in danger of becoming altogether too dominated by stylistic affectations and functionless trends.
This refreshingly pragmatic vision for flat pack furniture blends the best qualities a flat pack strategy has to offer: portability, sustainability and modularity. In short: practical, simple and functional elegance. Each unit in this flat pack collection is designed to be composed of two standard-sized plywood boards folded flat together with a hing holding them together. Selectively punched-out portions of their surfaces can then be bent into configurations that serve individual and joint purposes. They are part furniture, part spatial separator – acting as both object and wall in one. Floating Frames: 6 Hanging Bed + Swinging Mattress Sets. Do you prefer to slumber in stillness and silence, or would you rest more soundly if you could swing yourself gently to sleep?
Suspended beds are nothing new, but continue to appear in contemporary bedrooms with ever-more-modern materials to hold them in place. One of the classic methods of hanging beds is to simply run four ropes to the various corners, pass them through a circular hole and tie knots below. This low-tech solution works surprisingly well as long as your ceiling can support the extra weight of both bed and sleeper.
Much like hammocks, you can find these more frequently at resorts – they are typical associated with warm climates where movement and breezes can be a big plus, even at night. Whether you want them in your own home bedroom is another issue – particularly if you tastes are a tad less tropical and interior design style somewhat more subdued. Acoustic Decor: Modular Interactive Music-Making Furniture. From chairs and benches to chests and tables, these modestly elegant objects are crafted with a subtle secondary purpose – each one can be tapped, slapped, pounded or hit to create a series of carefully-planned sounds.
Tom Clausen makes his interactive musical furniture out of his warehouse studio in Portland, Oregon. He shapes everything from simple instruments to complex objects that have appeared in childhood learning centers, science museums, parks and homes around the country since he started adding acoustics to his craft two decades ago.