March 14, 2012

Oasis Concept: Folding Furniture

I'm impressed with Hong-Kong-based Oasis Concepts' folding furniture line-up. What they've done is worked out some simple mechanics with basic hinges to fold a table flat, then applied that system to multiple pieces: Kitchen chopping tables, kitchen islands, dining & buffet tables, side tables for entertaining and even desks.

How it folds:




Here's a video of it being both folded and unfolded:




And of course, a key benefit of designing this type of product is that you can ship it flat, and yet it still arrives fully assembled.

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