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Tom Dixon & Ikea Announce Modular Delaktig Bed
The rail system allows you to snap in different headboards, side tables and lighting
By Rain Noe - Jan 15
Last year a collaboration between Tom Dixon and Ikea yielded the Delaktig, a sort of open-source furniture system built around a day bed/couch/seating platform. Now they've expanded the line to include a proper bed, Queen-sized, which features the same aluminum construction and snap-on, snap-off system of accessories (in this case a headboard, a side table and lights).
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Enter a caption (optional)Tom Dixon: "As a designer you observe lots and lots of things. Most of them are useless and don't make any sense. Eventually, a pattern emerges from all the information that comes through. Good designers will be good spotters of patterns, and you apply that, or you spot a series of disparate elements, and you bring them together to be one strong idea."
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Enter a caption (optional)We'll be curious to see if the Ikeahacking community takes the Delaktig bed to heart and starts producing swiveling worksurfaces and reading-light rigs. (What we'd really like to see: Some clever attachment that simplifies bedmaking.)
The Delaktig bed will be released in February.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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