The Flip Convertible Sofa & Table by Adrien Rovero

This is fun and smart! Young Swiss designer Adrien Rovero has combined the properties of a sofa and a dining table into a single piece of transforming furniture...

Flip's sofa cushion and integrated side tables literally flip over to reveal the table top — a great small scale sofa that lets you host dinner parties in your tiny place.

Flip debuted with Italian manufacturer Campeggi at the Milan Furniture Fair — we hope to see it for sale soon.

Via: Contemporist.

Comments (12)

Which works great up until you spill your rum & coke all over the table top and it runs down onto the sofa part.

posted by Annegret on July 15th 2009 at 7:57pm
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Very creative! But I have to admit, it seems like more trouble than it's worth. Yes, you'd have this lovely table to host a dinner party in your house, but then you have to have a set of taller dining room chairs to bring out to put around it.

posted by Fire Wife Katie on July 15th 2009 at 8:04pm
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yech. sorry, this idea is less genius, and more ugly.
also impractical.

posted by verano on July 15th 2009 at 8:33pm
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Great idea (I'm a sucker for convertible furniture), but needs some more work. The sofa part looks really uncomfortable.

posted by Emika on July 16th 2009 at 6:04am
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i don't see anyone using sofa and being comfortable

posted by formosagirl on July 16th 2009 at 8:58am
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this is more an idea piece

posted by brocktontriangle on July 16th 2009 at 9:35am
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I love the idea of this, but am not sure why you would want your sofa to be a table.

posted by kiljoywashere on July 16th 2009 at 10:16am
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Personally, I think this is genius. I've been trying to figure out how to hold larger dinner parties without sacrificing a room to a dining table. Not crazy about the look of this piece quite yet, but I think it has tons of potential.

posted by MayaB on July 16th 2009 at 10:24am
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Yet another idea that I love in the abstract but wouldn't want to live with. I guess I'm stodgey. I want my bed to ALWAYS be my bed, not something else... I want my table to ALWAYS be my table, not a sofa. I'd rather live with fewer things and maybe more crowding and not have to rearrange and adjust things for daily living. (Special occasions, maybe some adjustment. Not every night or meal...)

posted by SherryBinNH on July 16th 2009 at 11:05am
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Ingenius - great idea for small spaces. But the design does need a little more thinking IMO (or, I've already thought of 3 things I'd do differently.)

posted by home body on July 16th 2009 at 11:08am
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If I'm ever in the market for an overpriced, uncomfortable sofa and an equally uncomfortable table, I'll know where to go.

posted by modtramp on July 16th 2009 at 1:06pm
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I would love it as a desk...not so sure about the sofa, tho.

posted by muirwoods08 on July 16th 2009 at 10:08pm
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