Swedish furniture brand Massproductions is set to release an outdoor sofa at Stockholm Design Week that mimics the welded steel barriers that are often erected at concerts to manage the crowd.
Named Roadie, after the workers who assemble these barricades, the piece will be launched at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair when it kicks off on 4 February.

Its curved, raw metal body consists almost entirely of metal rods ? two horizontal ones used to form the frame, and a row of vertical ones that are bent to create the seat with its high back.
Despite being a two metre long, three-seater sofa, it weighs only 16 kilograms and can easily be moved and stacked by a single person.
In this way, the product evokes crowd-control barriers both on a functional and a visual level.
"In their current form, they have been appearing on city streets from the early 1950s," designer-in-chief Chris Martin told Dezeen.
"Although a bit rough and not especially beautiful, they are interesting as there is no common standard for them. It's a design that has evolved independently and in parallel around the world. They may be a rare example of a meme artefact."

The tubes that form Roadie are made from aluminium, which has been recycled from discarded drinks cans and heat-treated for strength.
To create the final product, these are given an outdoor powder-coat finish in metallic silver, petrol blue or butter yellow.
The Massproductions plaque on the back of the frame was mad...