DANT DANT. I just experienced the design blogger's version of the opening scene from Law & Order: I was looking for something else and I stumbled upon a corpse. Matroshka is a design project from 2007 that looked promising and was generating interest and potential customers, then sadly died before seeing production. (Cause of death unknown.)
The concept is for a system of space-saving furniture that nests together--hence its name, Matroshka, a/k/a the Russian nesting dolls. At its most compressed the system takes up just four square meters but breaks out into permutations including a bed, desk, bookshelf, couch, coffee table, dinner table, wardrobe, clothing drawers, and seating for twelve!
I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes investigating, so I can find someone to prosecute for another 30 minutes.
Hit the jump for tons-o'-shots.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Matroshka: A system of space-saving furniture that never was
True, however its hard to take a photo of something inside a box, right? they should have painted a square on the floor to represent a specific area, x number of square meters, and then show the different potential arrangements in that space.
it's inconsistent to show it in a corner without even considering any perimeter which is the main element interacting in the equation. I mean that furniture could grow indifinitely towards the camera.
/Part-owner of Matroshka