10 Tips for Buying Self-Assembly

With the popularity of stores like IKEA, self-assembly furniture is affordable and more main stream than years past. Self-assembly furniture means furniture can be bought worldwide and shipped directly to your home. Although putting together furniture is perfect for some, others may have challenges in following instructions, losing pieces or understanding how the finished item will go together. Here are 10 tips you should consider when buying self-assembly furniture.

Fresh Furniture Collection Combining Elegance

The Mumbai Furniture Collection gathers gorgeous contemporary office furniture in one creative set. An executive table, a low sideboard and a taller cabinet form the collection. The desk is made from two sheets of plywood surrounding a lattice structure made of laser cut steel. Round corners give each piece of furniture an elegant and modern look, while the veneered surfaces and the visible edge of the plywood have a transparent polyurethane semi-open pore finishing. The name of the collection represents “something new, lively and innovative like the vibrant city Mumbai in India“, says Doriana Fuksas in an interview. Beautifully crafted, the three furniture items in the collection share the same design lines, but the desk is actually made using a unique technique that folded the plywood to the limits of the material’s capacity, creating an ingenious desk design. The legs of the cabinets make them look like speech bubbles – a creative way to use playfulness in the design.

ntriguing Combination of Form and Function

The Diviso Stool has an original appearance, was made from lightweight materials and can hold up to 120 kilos. The uncommon chair can easily contract and expand, making it possible for it to provide seating place for one, two or three persons. The designer sent us the press release for this product, which has been already exhibited at Designersblock 2010 as part of the London Design Festival: “Creating a piece of furniture that flowed and changed with the users perspective, while also being easy and cost effective to make; was at the heart of the stool’s creation. The resulting stool consists of a single profile, one shape, whose defining feature is what is missing and not what is on show. The negative space created inside the Diviso stool plays with light and perspective, creating a seaming complexity through the repetition of the single simplistic profile. This principle of repetition also lends the stool to multiple forms, the Diviso stool can extend or contract in size, seating three or just the one person; depending on how many profiles are used“. According to the same press release, four versions of the Diviso Stool are available: all natural plywood, stained black plywood, aluminium/plywood, and a limited edition ghost.