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Stairs or Slide? Sweet Ride Connects Two Penthouse Condos

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT

[ Filed under Stairs & Cases & in the Interiors category ]

If you are rich enough to afford one penthouse, why not shoot for two? And while you are at it: might as well have fun connecting your new sky-high New York City duplex.

Hence this stunning slide that lets you slip from one floor to the next in (some kind of) style. Turett Collaborative Architects followed their client’s wishes to create an unusual – not to mention high-speed – connection from one floor to the next in this East Village project.

They still have “the option to descend in the usual way on a new Italian-made Rintal stair” but can also traverse the two floors “more speedily, in a seated position, careening through the new double-height atrium” via a stainless steel slide.

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Chair On Demand: Pressure-Activated Stool Flips into Action

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Transforming & in the Furniture category ]

An innocuous little black box when not in use, the act of simply sitting on this stool converts it into a complete chair with back and arm rests.

French designer Arthur Bodolec envisions this object as part of an ongoing series of furniture items that are essentially touch-activated – inert when not in use, but dynamic when pressure and/or weight are applied.

Almost as neat as the object itself (or perhaps more so, depending on your perspective) are the series of sketches and SketchUp renderings that accompany his design process.