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I can appreciate the INGENUITY while disliking how it looks. Every piece I saw looked contemporary/modern in design, and I really don't like that style as it looks very, very cold to me (I know others disagree with me!) -- not what I am going for in my house. (Of course the ingenious ideas could work just as well in less modern-looking furniture, but they didn't show any.)
I totally agree with Karen in NH.....very ingenious but so not to my taste. If only it were available in Overstuffed or Early American. It looks very handy and practical, but too sterile and institutional for my personal taste. Also - I never heard any mention of how much this all costs?
I love that video. It's really for NYC (or similar) apartments, where you need slim/ smaller furniture anyway. It would also be cool at a smaller beach house, where you need all of the space you can get.
"If you have to ask- you probably can't afford it!"
The rather simple "Murphy-type" bed (queen size) with the shelf that becomes the support leg is about 8Grand! and that DOESN"T include the mattress.
Resource is just an importer. There are a few companies that manufacture this type of furniture, most are in Italy.
I used one of their couch/bed designs for a conceptual project in studio where we had to design a 15x15x15 box to be a livable space. It worked out really well but since we weren't actually building anything I never called to get pricing. That's crazy!
Similar products have been around for more than 100 years. This just a variation. There are some incredibly ingenious ideas form the old days, it is especially neat because they were made without technology. Older versions were far nicer looking, but did not work as well and tended to jam. I am trying to think of some specific examples, but my memory is not working well today. I have seen many, but only owned a couple of items and they broke pretty quickly. One was a desk that converted into a full dining table.
We once had a similar desk/murphy bed thing. However it took so long to clear it off we just did not bother. We left the desk out, slept on a giant beanbag pillow/couch/bed thing we had in the room and never pulled the bed down after about the third time.
It is surprising how many "new" ideas are not new. I have an automatically flushing toilet from 1901. Of course it does not use motion sensors, but it works (but only if you sit on it).
They might be expensive they have a lifetime warranty.
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