The work-from-home trend accelerated by Covid-19 was the starting point for these versatile furniture designs, unveiled by Beckmans College of Design students during Stockholm Design Week.
Six pairs of students from Beckmans' product design programme have each teamed up with a different Swedish furniture brand to design and prototype a piece of furniture that could be used for either home or workplace activities.
Students collaborated with brands to produce the designs
Called Room Service, their designs respond to a time when more people are working from home than ever before, as a result of travel restrictions enforced to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
They include a laptop table better suited to a lounge chair than an office chair, a daybed that doubles as a bench, and seat that is both comfortable and easy to move around. The Handle Chair was made together with Johanson design
"Room Service plays with the idea of redefining the meaning of a room," said the project organisers.
"That place you might call your own space, that once ? not too long ago ? was an intimate refuge, a private sanctuary, has now become more of a verb, a temporary state of semi-public work/play/flux."
The chair is both comfortable and easy to move around
Alice Lannfelt and Nataliya Khanenko worked with Johanson Design on the Handle chair, which has a powder-coated steel frame and a wool-blend upholstered cushion and backrest.
Designed by the designers as "a combinat...