Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

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As the definition of ‘designer’ expands and architects today create everything from jewelry to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects ranging from furniture to small-scale architectural inventions is transforming our interior spaces. Presented in a compact, beautifully illustrated format, this volume will be an essential resource for designers and hip consumers everywhere. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration reshapes our cities, redefines our lifestyles, and creates possibilities for a synergy between humans, technology and nature. Driven by Design features 21 bold, young, architecture studio and practices established within the last 5 years. And she does it very well, with plenty of examples, section after section - from simple modular design to rooms within rooms, from disturbing foldable offices to captivating architectural shelving. It is essentially the art of designing and building bespoke furniture that is architected into rooms. This beautiful dressing table and Hollywood mirror provides a make-up artists dream and also serves as a barrier to stop you falling down the staircase behind.As the definition of ‘designer’ expands and architects today create everything from jewelry to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects is transforming our interior spaces.

Boosted by digital design and manufacturing possibilities, a rising global group of independent makers is making this crossover of furniture and architecture one of the hottest and most innovative fields of design. Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Kevin Lim has been selected as part of Heineiken’s Open Design Collaboration 2 co-creation team for a pop-up lounge to be showcased at London’s Design Week 2014. The featured practices have been working on a portfolio of works, both built and conceptual, large and small, that are visionary and exploratory in approach.