#mobile-furniture

#mobile-furniture

Most storage furniture sits where you put it, fixed shelves and cabinets that do their job but rarely respond to how space changes during a day. Trolleys help with mobility, but they often feel generic, more utility than character. Harbor 051 is a storage trolley that borrows its logic from a place built entirely around movement and stacking, Busan Port, where containers shift and cranes swing in a constant choreography.

Proportion is arguably the most important tenet of design either affirming or subverting our notions of what may or may not be home furnishings, whether it's of use, and if that should even be the goal. Mike & Maaike's unusual design for Rolly - a rolling table comprising four identical, circular elements - plays with size and scale relative to our understanding of mobile furniture, turning the typically utilitarian wheel into a larger than life element with equal visual weight as the tabletop.

Designers Ye Jin Lee, Jung A Park, and Yujin Lee definitely think so, because they created FURNY to solve exactly this problem. FURNY isn't your typical furniture design project. It's a mobile furniture system specifically built for co-living spaces, and its entire purpose is to help people start conversations without that painful awkwardness we've all experienced. The concept is simple but clever: what if furniture could be the friendly person who breaks the ice first?

Braun envisioned NEXT as a compact piece suitable in apartments or offices where space is limited, and which can serve as both a storage unit and furniture.