Three Furniture and Interiors Concepts That Work Like Legos

As we've written before, the idea of furniture that you can remake every time your needs change makes a whole lot of sense, in our current age: What could be more green than making due with what you have than turning a chandelier into a coffee table? Designers have picked up the gauntlet, and lately we've been seeing a rash of concepts on that theme. Here's three.

Parisian Aïssa Logero created Extensions, which is a kit of wood parts held together only with slots and string. These can be made into basically anything you'd like that requires a top and legs--from a bench to a dining table to a desk to a coffee table. An additional kit provides a light that you can reconfigure as well:

Makedo is even looser ended: The "product" is really just a set of nifty fasteners, that you can then use to lash together almost anything. Core 77 brought back pictures from an exhibit showing just how diverse those designs can be--ranging from room dividers made of egg cartons to carpets made of nylon scraps. The product debuts this fall.

More study and large-scaled than either of those project is Obra Architects's Urbia furniture line. The kit is comprised of light-weight planks of ash plywood, which are all 2'x8' or less, so that they can fit into elevators. They can then be assembled into spans as great as twenty feet--creating cabinets, furniture, or even lofts. The pieces connect to each other via hidden fasteners accessed by the holes in each piece:

[Via Dezeen, Core 77, and Plus Mood, all of which have more pics and info]

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