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.
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.
yech. sorry, this idea is less genius, and more ugly.
also impractical.
Great idea (I'm a sucker for convertible furniture), but needs some more work. The sofa part looks really uncomfortable.
i don't see anyone using sofa and being comfortable
this is more an idea piece
I love the idea of this, but am not sure why you would want your sofa to be a table.
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.
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...)
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.)
If I'm ever in the market for an overpriced, uncomfortable sofa and an equally uncomfortable table, I'll know where to go.
I would love it as a desk...not so sure about the sofa, tho.