Milan 09: London designer Philippe Malouin has designed a sofa-bed that converts into a tent-like shelter for Italian brand Campeggi.
Upholstered in green fabric intended to evoke military tents, the arms of the Tent Sofa can be unfolded to create walls and a pitched roof around the extended mattress.
The chair was on show at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan during April.
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Here’s some text from Campeggi:
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A sofa bed is usually placed in a space that is shared or common, therefore completely exposing the user to the other inhabitants of the space.
When a person spends a night on a sofa bed, he or she (the guest) might feel exposed and lack privacy.
The Tent sofa transforms into a shelter in a few moments for its user to spend a good night sleep while keeping his or her privacy.
The sofa gives the impression of a standard military tent.
More about Philippe Malouin on Dezeen:
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Posted by Rose Etherington
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 am
funny but useless
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Love it.. One of the best designs I’ve seen this year. Reminds me of being a child and beeing able to crawl down below the table in our living room and watch tv. Well done.
Klaus Olsen
Editor of Dagens Design
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 am
Campeggi is often innovative…
It clear Philippe Malouin is for me the new designer of the year using the network of Eindhoven + Ensci + Dixon + his own talent..
He is everywhere in Montreal, London, Cologne, Milan, Paris….a new emerging star?
PS: see also Sam Sannia’s armchair
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:23 am
see Ooch armchair by anglo Italian designer Sam Sannia for BB Emmebonaicna.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
why ‘design’ always has to be funny these days? i don’t mind jokes, but won’t pay hundreds of bucks for one. also, how funny is it to ‘hear’ the same joke everyday?
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
..a lack of functionality and aesthetic qualities cannot be compensated by some jokey concept.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
1/Pat explains me why is it useless?
2/ It’s a playfull transformer chair as Klaus Olsen says…
3/ For me the mutation of forms, uses and functions is the future of a new design of crise.
4/ new “mutation” design generation : Benchetrit+ Malouin + Sannia… etc
5/ for more information about mutation of design see the mapping of the institute of the Future of California
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
When we were kids, we used to do this with cardboard boxes and sofa cushions. We called it a “fort.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
of course Philippe does great work and is a rising star, no question there.
would anybody else would have liked to see it in a different color interior-exterior or is that just gimmicky?
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
photo of the first solo expo in new nextlevel galerie , Paris
http://www.philippemalouin.com/
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
can I get it in pink?
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
I don’t like to differ from the masses (not really) but this is just a bit dull. A colour other than ‘army’ green, any colour in fact, may have illicited a little more child-like fever for this design.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I was surprised by the color. I would feel put upon having an army green tent in my living room, thus would opt for providing my guests less privacy if it meant maintaining my preferred color scheme.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
What more does the modern batchelor pad require. I want two for in house paintballing missions.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Become a design star…It’s in french (use google translate)
Pour approfondir le sujet, sans perturber ceux qui ne veulent pas l’approndir tout simplement parce qu’il ne sont pas créateur, designer etc
voir le dialogue sur le thème “devenir star du design” avec le Nicolas Minveille (consultant professeur ex Directeur des marques de Starck) et votre humble serviteur Prof Z.
http://www.design-blog.info/
June 16th, 2009 at 10:53 am
…in agreement with ‘jh’, concept furniture is only good design if it also holds (at least some kind of ) poetic beauty. I find this another gimicky , unattractive, and clumsy piece of furniture, that looks far more unattractive in its day to day form (as a chair), and less comfortable in its converted form (as a bed?) than 99% of sofa-beds on the cheap end market. Do I want to look at velcro that will be full of fluff daily? (Uh, no!). Oh, and please Prof.Z, allow me and other people their opinions.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Nice post…
what an original idea about tent sofa. it really gives the impression of a standard military tent.