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Fabulous Flatpack Week’nder By Charlie Lazor

July 27, 2011

Images credit George Heinrich Photography with permission from Lazor Office

Charlie Lazor has been designing some of the loveliest modern prefab houses in the country since the beginning of the start of the prefab meme. But there is something really …

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Tata Introduces Flatpack Nano House: 215 Square Feet For $720

July 18, 2011

Image via Car Advice.

TATA, which famously brought a $2500 car to India, is now is taking orders for an entire house (without garage for the nano car) for 32,000 rupees ($720). That’s $3.34 per square foot!

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Flatpack Retractable Table: Hit Or Miss?

July 14, 2011

images credit Foppapedretti

I am usually a sucker for any furniture design that can slide under the door, or anything that transforms and folds up and away. This table and bench does both, taking up only 4 cm when folded (1.5 inches). But for somethi…

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Is the London Olympic Basketball Venue The Ugliest Building Ever?

June 17, 2011

I was shocked and appalled at Bonnie’s post on the London Olympic basketball stadium; it gives flatpack a bad name. It looks the the shrink-wrapped boats you see at marinas in winter. It looks like a giant bunion pad. Now I know this is not a money-…

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Flatpack Wonders From The University of Oregon

May 16, 2011

Images Credit Lloyd Alter

As always, the student work at ICFF is the most interesting. Students at The University of Oregon’s product design school developed a line of flatpack furniture; some of them look like they might barely carry the weight, bu…

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Flatpack Table Assembles Like House of Cards

May 9, 2011

nzela table assembly photo
Images credit Kayiwa

Upon seeing the NZELA table in Swiss Miss, I was immediately reminded of two things: the way Gerrit Rietveld used colour in the Red Blue Chair; the way one assembles Charles Eames’ house of cards. It is such a simple concept….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Another Amazing Collapsible Shipping Container: The Staxxon

May 3, 2011

Image Credit Staxxon

Inhabitat shows another folding container design that differs from the Cargoshell we showed last year; it folds horizontally instead of vertically. There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

A hinge is always a weak point,…

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Clever Flatpack Furniture is FOBricated With Ratchet Straps

March 21, 2011

Images credit Jason Barbagelott atFOBricated

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is looking for furniture for the LifeEdited project; this line from FOBricated might fill the bill. It is as minimal as it gets, held together in tension by ratchet straps. T…

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Naked House Combines Flatpack, Containers and CLT Panels

January 3, 2011

Photos credit Alex de Rijke at Drmm

How did I miss this one? It pushes every button. British architecture firm drmm designed the Naked House for an exhibition in Norway in 2006; it is delivered (and is built on top of) a shipping container, filled to…

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Con.Temporary Furniture: Simple Screwless Flatpack

December 13, 2010

Images Credit DBCSC

Swiss designer Colin Schaelli tells the story of John Doe, who was so tired to going to the Big Swede for cool furniture on a budget. Really, his only friend from Scandinavia is Billy. “All others appear too unappealing to him. An…

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