Online startup Floyd has designed a suite of flat-pack furniture to be easily taken apart and moved around, intended for young city dwellers and to offer a long-lasting alternative to IKEA products.
Floyd is the brainchild of Kyle Hoff and Alex O'Dell, who founded the Detroit-based company in 2014 to provide furniture suited to urbanites, who typically rent small apartments and relocate often.
Floyd produces three flat-pack furniture products, including a bed with a plywood frame
While companies such as Swedish flat-pack giant IKEA produces affordable furniture that these nomads might discard when they decamp, Floyd intends to set itself apart by making products that can move with their owners.
The brand's earliest range includes a selection of hardware items, like table legs and shelving struts, to enable customers to make furniture with their own materials. Bent steel supports elevate the base, while tensioning straps are used to strengthen the structure
It now produces three furniture pieces ? including a side table that launched last month, a bed and a table ? which are assembled without tools and easily taken apart. The collection is intended as a no-fuss system that can be repeated many times without damage to the products.
Floyd intends products to be long-lasting
Floyd's three pieces of furniture feature birch plywood panels manufactured in the US and steelwork, chosen to ensure that the items are long-lasting.
For the Floyd Platform Bed, the plywood panels are elev...