Swiss studio Kosmos Architects has designed Dice, a multifaceted piece of oak furniture that can be used as a stool, a coffee table, a lamp or a footrest.
The five-pronged furniture piece weighs 10.5 kilograms and has a "warm" oak wood frame characterised by subtle chequerboard patterns.
Dice functions as a stool, a coffee table, a lamp or a footrest
"Throw the dice, and this project will take a new shape depending on how the user rotates it," said Kosmos Architects, which named Dice after the numbered cube often used in games of chance.
Two of the furniture's legs are wide enough to support it, while two others are slimmer and rounded. The fifth leg features a triangular lamp at its tip made of plastic and protected frosted glass, which can be removed via a small button and charged using a USB socket. The furniture can be suspended from the ceiling
When tipped on its various sides, Dice can function as a stool, a coffee table or a footrest.
The furniture can be attached to a rope or similar hanging material and suspended from the ceiling to provide lighting or simply positioned as a floor lamp.
Kosmos Architects chose this asymmetric design to "unite the qualities of four different basic furniture typologies".
The triangular lamp is removable
"We made the lamp removable so that there are no electrical cords and to make the object independent," architect Leonid Slonimskiy told Dezeen.
Dice was CNC-milled from a stack of solid oak piec...