Over on fashion.psfk, Amanda Gore reports on what might be the coolest bed ever. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ this floating bed hovers in mid air supported only by thin wire cables and powerfull magnets installed into the ceiling and floor.
Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssennaar’s floating bed defies gravity.
Kept in a permanent state of suspension by magnets built into both the
bed and the floor, it doesn’t require any other form of energy to keep
it afloat, and according to the designer, it can hold the weight of a
sumo wrestling team!Questioning the ways in which gravity determines the image of
architecture, Ruijssennaar wanted to design a product that used
something other than gravity as its dictating force."In contrast to
conventional furniture which falls towards the earth, Floating Bed
falls towards the sky."
fashion.psfk: Floating Beds – The Space-Saving Future?
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Saw this not long after the guy desiegned it. A really interesting disaster waiting to happen. Serioulsy? With all the fero-electric things we have in our haouses? Don’t lounge in bed with your ipod, or wear a belt with a metal buckle to dinner when it’s in table mode and don’t even think about using it for a work suface with a computer on it. Brings whole new meaning to have you looked under the bed? Stay way on top with that clever body piercing too. A cool thought experiment made real… really thoughtless design. It costs a couple million dollars because they’ll only sell one or two and they have to cover the legal cost when they get sued somehow.
November 24th, 2006 at 12:37 pm