Rhode Island furniture company Greycork has created a collection of quick-assembly, flat-pack pieces that are intended "to be a better alternative to Ikea" (+ slideshow). More about Greycork challenges Ikea with a flat-pack living room in a box
News: IKEA's flat-pack refugee shelters, which have now been tested in Ethiopia and Iraq, have been described by design critic Alice Rawsthorn as being part of "one of the most important design developments of the past decade" (+ slideshow). More about IKEA's refugee housing is "unusually sensitive and intelligent" says Alice Rawsthorn
This range of flat-packed furniture by Benjamin Vermeulen does away with little bags of screws, fastenings or Allen keys and simply snaps together with super-strong magnets (+ movie). More about Flat-pack furniture assembled with magnets by Benjamin Vermeulen
News: furniture retail giant IKEA has announced plans to sell flat-packed solar panels. More about IKEA to sell flat-pack solar panels
The three-legged, leaf-shaped side table that sparked a revolution in self-assembly furniture over 60 years ago is returning to IKEA stores next month. More about IKEA relaunches first flat-pack table
Stockholm 2013: Stockholm studio Form Us With Love will launch a tiered spun metal lamp for Finnish brand One Nordic at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about Levels lamp by Form Us With Love for One Nordic
Product news: Swedish design duo Mattias Ståhlbom and Gabriella Gustafson of TAF have created a table with an upside-down underframe for Danish producers Hay. More about Upside Down by TAF for Hay
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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Eight poles and a board made of forest waste bolt together to make a flat-pack table by Japanese designers Hiroyuki Miyabe and Jun Yoshimura of SPEAC. More about For Rest Table by SPEAC
Product designer Konstantin Achkov has created a range of flat-pack furniture that slots together like a puzzle. More about Stack by Konstantin Achkov
Royal College of Art graduate Gaspard Tiné-Berès has designed slippers made from just one piece of felt and a shoelace (+ movie). More about Lasso Shoes by Gaspard Tiné-Berès at Show RCA 2012
Movie: Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Thibault Penven has designed a folding boat. More about Ar Vag by Thibault Penven /ECAL
Milan 2012: visitors were invited to sit in a chair hooked up to advanced stress-analysis equipment normally used in the car industry at an installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for car brand Audi in Milan last month. More about R18 Ultra Chair Public Beta by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram for Audi
These gift boxes shaped like little characters by design student Wilda Wongso were on show at Platform 2012 during the International Furniture Fair Singapore earlier this month. More about Vigoo by Wilda Wongso
This coffee table by Chilean studio Elemento Diseño is made of a single sheet of plywood, with the legs cut out from its corners. More about Table Vic by Elemento Diseño
Stockholm 2012: the prongs of this whisk by Hanover studio Ding3000 for Danish brand Normann Copenhagen fold away for neat storage. More about Beater by Ding3000 for Normann Copenhagen
The Temporium: patterned paper planes crafted by a traditional printing press are behind the eighth window of our Advent calendar of products at The Temporium. More about Paper Planes by Glithero and Baddeley Brothers at The Temporium
Dezeen Wire: a mirrored tree house designed by architects Tham & Videgård Arkitekter for the Treehotel in northern Sweden is now available for sale as a flat-pack kit.
Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing architect Naihan Li presented crates that unfold to become a collection of furniture at a pop-up disco lounge for Beijing Design Week. More about The Crates by Naihan Li
Vienna Design Week 2011: London designers PostlerFerguson have created a temporary Viennese coffee house for Vienna Design Week, which continues until Sunday. More about Cafe Sonja by PostlerFerguson