The Upside Down furniture by TAF for Hay exposes the wooden construction details that are usually hidden.

"The inspiration in this case was to show the handicraft that you always see when you look under a piece of furniture in a clear and obvious way," Mattias Ståhlbom told Dezeen. "This is in order to make the product easier to understand and relate to, and the fact that it turned out to also become a constructional advantage is of course a bonus."

The pieces are made from natural ash and come flat-packed in a range of three sizes that can be used as tables and stools. The collection is on show as part of the Cabinetmakers Autumn Exhibition at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen until 2 November.

Other TAF products on Dezeen include a set of furniture made by prisoners, an adaptable dining table and trestles to make different furniture forms.

Photos are by Petra Bindel and TAF.

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Dezeen archive: after this week's story about the minimal flat-pack For Rest Table designed by Japanese studio SPEAC, we thought we would give you a summary of all the other clever flat-pack furniture in the Dezeen archive. See all the stories »

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Called For Rest Table, it can be bolted together easily and has been painted with accents of white at the end of some sections and the bottom of two legs.

It's made from thinnings of hinoki cypress - a slow growing tree predominantly found in Japan - that would otherwise be thrown away.

Back in 2008 we featured the renovation of an ivy-covered house by SPEAC. Take a look at it here.

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Photographs are by the designers.

The information that follows is from SPEAC:

Double wishes

The name of this table is For Rest Table. This name has double meanings.

The first is “For rest”. The second is the wish for revival of sustainable environment of a forest.

We know that healthy circulation of forest thinning waste is indispensable to revive and sustain Japanese forest.

This table is one of the effective utilization of sustainable wood.

Sectional table with good texture

This table is sectional and consists of one plate and 8 poles. We can put together very easily without special tools.

All parts are made of Japanese cypress “Hinoki”. And we can enjoy very good texture and fragrance of wood.

Reasonable shipping cost

These parts of the table can be packed compactly. We can ship saving cost and energy.

Design: SPEAC,inc./Hiroyuki Miyabe/ Jun Yoshimura
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: SPEAC,inc.

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Product designer Konstantin Achkov has created a range of flat-pack furniture that slots together like a puzzle.

Called Stack, the pieces are assembled without glue, screws or other fixings.

The collection so far includes a round table, bar stool, chair and armchair.

Each one is made of 18mm-thick beech plywood, cut with a computer-controlled router.

The pieces were presented at Sofia Design Week from 1 to 8 June.

A graduate of Sofia University, Achkov plans to launch his own brand called Tenon to produce this range and his previous work.

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Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie).

The slippers are delivered flat-packed and come with coloured laces that the user has to thread along the seam, which curls around the edge of the sole and over one side of the upper.

Tiné-Berès graduated from the college's Design Products course and his work is on display at Show RCA, which continues until 1 July.

We recently published a movie of Design Products course leader Tord Boontje giving a tour of the show - see it here.

We have also featured an eye-tracking camera and jars made of radioactive earth from this year's show - read all our stories from the show here.

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Here is some more information from the designer:

These slippers are constructed from a single piece of natural wool felt, their 3D form being created by complex 2D geometry of the pattern.

The shapes are die-cut from sheets of 5mm thick felt with minimal, simple and affordable tooling - making this product very suitable for small-scale local production.

The slippers are delivered flat-packed for assembly by the user by "sewing" the seams with the standard laces supplied in a colour of their choice.

The act of self-assembling the slippers increases the sense of ownership and emotional connection with them and allows for personalisation through the choice of laces used.

House and Gardens Scholarship helped my to invest in the die-cutting tools in order to produce a range in ten standard sizes that I will be selling directly via a dedicated website opening next september.

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