NEST moving crate opens up into a minimal home kit for generation rent - architecture and design

NEST moving crate opens up into a minimal home kit for generation rent



Malessa Studio's wooden NEST crate unpacks to create a bed, desk, bench and shelf designed in response to the increasingly nomadic lifestyle of young urbanites.
Amsterdam-based designer Désirée Malessa created NEST based on her own experience of moving multiple times for internships, studying and work and living in different types of rented accommodation.
"We are generation rent ? a generation that is always on the move, taking possibilities wherever they might be," said Malessa.
"Accepting this nomadic lifestyle inspired me to rethink the concept of moving," she told Dezeen, "to come up with a furniture collection that can be assembled and disassembled within minutes and easily transported from place to place to place."
When fully packed away, NEST looks like a pine packing crate and measures 113 centimetres long by 85 centimetres high and 28 centimetres thick. It has optional wheels that can be attached to the bottom corners to help with the moving process.
Inside is space for personal belongings as well as a collection of flat-packed furniture pieces. At the Object Rotterdam design fair, which took place last week, Malessa showed a version that included a shelf unit, a single bed, a bench for sitting on and a table.

The name NEST stands for Nomadic Essentials for Simpler Transitions. By providing a basic kit of furniture, the collection allows its owners to personalise every space they move to with their own objects.
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