Milan 08: Cube 6 by designer Naho Matsuno turns from a cube into six stools and back again.
Matsuno showed the project in the Salone Satellite at the Milan furniture fair.
The stools are made from birch plywood and maple and the cube is 350 x 350 x 350mm when slotted together.
A version with three stools is also available (see below).
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Posted by Rose Etherington
genious!
April 25th, 2008 at 4:44 pmYeah that’s cool, I prefer the version with three pieces, as it is more integrated to the idea of nesting, the first version allows certain pieces the autonomy of normalcy or the traditional stool, while the others are made to accommodate it, most notably the piece in the bottom left of the first image. All in all pretty smart though.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pmYou have to thumb thru the user guide to put the puzzle back together.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pmd design z great & d way d designer has used 6 surfaces of cube & slotted them in a form of a chair is brilliant!!
April 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pmAhhhh the japanese…
April 25th, 2008 at 11:48 pmthese guys are yeeeeeears ahead of us occidentals.
Awsome!!!! Ideal for a populate family!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:18 ambrilliant,
that,s not just good design but also green design,
maximize function to use,
and minimize waste and place uses,,
i love that,
April 26th, 2008 at 8:40 amexcellent
space issue won’t be an issue anymore with all those “furnitures inside a box” design trend, great !
April 26th, 2008 at 10:36 amplaning to have a party ? just buy this box, you’ll get many tables to set up
April 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amThe first thing I see coming out of Milan this year that’s clever as well as beautiful and practical!
April 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pmclever , now evolve with that consept!
April 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pmI like the idea, after reading and found out that it’s made of maple, I love it !
April 28th, 2008 at 2:30 amI was watching Naho last autumn in London design week
April 28th, 2008 at 8:04 pmshowing the cube. Brilliant, intelligent, and with lot of
passion for making future more playful.
Bravo, Naho!
put starck in this magic box and ask him if design is dead?
April 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pmBeauty, fun, precision and economy. Faultless.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:50 am