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
April 25th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
genious!
April 25th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Yeah 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 5:09 pm
You have to thumb thru the user guide to put the puzzle back together.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
d 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 11:48 pm
Ahhhh the japanese…
these guys are yeeeeeears ahead of us occidentals.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:18 am
Awsome!!!! Ideal for a populate family!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
brilliant,
that,s not just good design but also green design,
maximize function to use,
and minimize waste and place uses,,
i love that,
excellent
April 26th, 2008 at 10:36 am
space issue won’t be an issue anymore with all those “furnitures inside a box” design trend, great !
April 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am
planing to have a party ? just buy this box, you’ll get many tables to set up
April 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
The first thing I see coming out of Milan this year that’s clever as well as beautiful and practical!
April 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
clever , now evolve with that consept!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:30 am
I like the idea, after reading and found out that it’s made of maple, I love it !
April 28th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I was watching Naho last autumn in London design week
showing the cube. Brilliant, intelligent, and with lot of
passion for making future more playful.
Bravo, Naho!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
put starck in this magic box and ask him if design is dead?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Beauty, fun, precision and economy. Faultless.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am
The best i ever seen!