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Furniture hidden in a book!

Bookniture | MoMA Design Store

When I say “Furniture in a book”, your mind would probably think that the book in question was about furniture. However, Bookniture is way more literal than that! It literally is a book that opens up to become furniture!

Relying on folded paper’s ability to withstand large amounts of compressive stress against its thickness, the Bookniture literally comes as thick as a coffee-table book and as light as one too. It contains paper pages on the inside that are honeycombed together, and opens up like a regular book would. After opening the book up, just lock the covers to each other and place a circular mat on top and you have yourself an Ottoman Stool, or even a rather nifty side-table that can take up to 1100 kgs (2400 pounds) of load without breaking a sweat!

Just the most amazing product for picnics (forget those picnic mats!), or travel, or even in the most minimal-loving home/office, the Bookniture is undeniably stylish (it has a place in the Museum of Modern Art, btw!), supremely functional, and fits like a charm in any bookshelf! You could literally fill your bookshelf with these! Would that count as furniture-ception though?

Designers: Mike Mak & Plateaus

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Sarang Sheth
Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.
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