Products fair: Danish designer Cecilie Manz has created a wooden coffee table for furniture brand Takt that users can assemble themselves by securing the two components together with leather loops. More
Australian art and architecture collective Studio Rain has installed a temporary sauna next to Melbourne's Yarra River that is prefabricated and off-grid, so it can be built, disassembled and reused without the use of heavy machinery.
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London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed a steel flat-pack chair, called Cross Chair Tube, for Danish furniture brand Takt. More
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have begun mass-producing disposable face shields for medical workers fighting Covid-19, which come flat-packed and can be folded into shape. More
Flat-pack startup Jupe has unveiled the "world's first standalone intensive care unit" and several other pop-up care facilities to help hospitals under pressure due to coronavirus. More
Anyone in need of a temporary desk during the coronavirus crisis can build one themselves, using this design by Danish startup Stykka. More
Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. More
Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. More
Northumbria University graduate Rocky Brooks has designed a disposable and fully recyclable flat-pack bed for dogs to help reduce costs in rescue centres. More
Lausanne design studio Panter & Tourron's Tense collection is a set of flat-packed furniture essentials that together weigh less than 20 kilograms and can be easily assembled anywhere. More
Mexican architecture firm Paola Calzada Arquitectos produces its line of robust flat-pack furniture using recycled plastic bottles and wood-fibre material valchromat. More
London-based architect Henning Stummel is launching a leather and birch plywood furniture collection during London Design Festival, which he is showcasing inside his unusual, bright red house. More
New York-based studio New Affiliates has designed a line of minimalist garden gnomes that aim to revamp the traditional American yard. More
Hem is continuing to explore how high-end design can be flat-packed, with the launch of a sofa and a conference table that can be shipped in standard boxes. More
Online startup Floyd has designed a suite of flat-pack furniture to be easily taken apart and moved around, intended for young city dwellers and to offer a long-lasting alternative to IKEA products. More
This captioned movie shows workers unfolding a flat-pack MADI – a modular, earthquake-resistant house that the manufacturer claims can be constructed within six hours. More
This flat-packed light by Nendo is made from a single piece of conductive paper, which can be rolled up to create a handheld torch in emergency situations. More
In response to increasing electrical waste, design graduate Kasey Hou has developed a flat-pack toaster that can be easily repaired if it breaks down. More
Researchers at MIT's Tangible Media Group have brought the ethos of flat-packing to food, creating pasta shapes that go from two-dimensional to three-dimensional when dunked in water. More
Recent graduate Timo Spelleken has designed a minimal flat-pack chair that can easily be assembled at home without tools, screws or adhesives. More
