Thursday, April 22, 2010

Convertible Furniture



Call it what you will—convertible, hide-a-way, couch-bed—but this ever practical object transforms from a place to sit to a place to sleep. Lovely in theory, yes; often painful in reality. Not for the inventive Swiss industrial designer Adrien Rovero, whose //Slash Sofa for Campeggi uses upholstered blocks to accommodate the needs of the human form: “The idea of //Slash comes from the quick and visible transformation of a sofa into a bed inspired by the foldable simple mattress. From this known foldable principle, the concept is push to the extreme in term of comfort and uses by including slats.”

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