Dezeen Showroom: London-based Fuzl Studio has developed a series of flat-pack, birch plywood furniture, that can be assembled completely without tools or screws and is instead held together by a system of metal clips.
The Originals range includes a chair, stool, bench and three tables, which rely on heavy-duty steel spring clips from the commercial packaging industry as their only fixing.
Fuzl Studio's Originals range includes a chair and bench
Developed by manufacturer Clip-Lok SimPak, these QIK clips are normally used to hold together plywood shipping crates in order to safely transport fragile goods around the world.
But in this case, they allow furniture to be quickly assembled, disassembled and repaired by clipping on replacement pieces. The pieces are held together by QIK clips from Clip-Lok SimPak
The collection's slatted chair uses six clips in total ? one to fix each leg to the frame and one on either side of the backrest.
Meanwhile, the Rotable has a Z-shaped base that can be flipped to turn it from a coffee table into a desk and secured in place using four clips.
The Originals bench comes in colours from cream and black to green
According to Fuzl Studio founder Oliver Theobald, the aim of the range is to move flat-pack furniture away from its current associations with being "cheap, undesirable, short-term and throw-away".
"If done right, I think flat-pack somehow sparks and initiates your connection with a thing from the get-go, simply by the mak...