Zoom Room
If your cramped urban dwelling is forcing you to choose between designated sleeping quarters and a full-on media room, fret no more.
You can have both with Zoom-Room, an electronic version of the Murphy bed.
Multi-tasking
Books may soon be obsolete, and therefore bookcases, but until that sad day arrives there’s the Bookinist, the multi-tasking furniture designed by Nils Holger Moormann. It’’s a chair! And a bookcase! (One that can hold up to 80 paperbacks.) There’s a jaunty reading lamp, a cup holder, and a hidden compartment that holds a pencil sharpener, pencil, notebook, and reading glasses. And did I mention the whole thing is mobile? It’s not quite high tech, in that you have to roll it like a pushcart to wherever you want to sit, but, hey it’s so cool looking it worth a shout out.
Website: Nils Holger Moormann
Where I found it: Freshome
Necee Regis believes that small spaces deserve great designs. A freelance writer with an MFA from Mass College of Art, Necee brings her artist’s eye and writer’s voice to this blog, which aims to find the most creative design solutions for small spaces. Her musings about design, travel, and food have appeared in publications as varied as Design Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and American Way Magazine.