Lausanne design studio Panter & Tourron's Tense collection is a set of flat-packed furniture essentials that together weigh less than 20 kilograms and can be easily assembled anywhere.
Presented at the Alcova exhibition space on Via Popoli Uniti during Milan design week, the five-piece collection is a research project looking at innovative furniture solutions for a globally mobile generation.
Panter & Tourron's Tense collection comprises five pieces of easily-assembled flat-pack furniture
It comprises a table, chair, pendant light, mirror with a lighting feature and screens that can be used to divide a space. All the pieces are extremely lightweight and hold their shape solely using tensile strength.
The designers were inspired to create the collection on the back of research into the future of the home. Lightweight screens made of flat-woven recycled plastic polyamide threads can divide living space
"Our parents and grandparents invested in a home and lived there all their life, but this tendency is really changing nowadays," Tourron told Dezeen.
"We have nomadic tendencies; thanks to work, love, studies, we are displaced more and more nowadays, so it's hard to invest in heavy stuff and move around with them."
Each of the five items are easy to transport either flat or in a tube, and can be assembled without the need for parts or tools, "allowing one to recreate and rebuild a home anywhere in a few simple steps".
The table top and base...