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Magnificent Staircase is Also a Slide, Bookcase + Cinema

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

In most homes, a staircase is a mere utility to get from one level of the building to another. This is all well and good, but isn’t there more that we could be doing with staircases?

Designer Moon Hoon thought so when designing The Panorama House in South Korea. The home on its own is a gorgeous modern piece of architectural art, but the central staircase is what really makes it stand out.

This is no typical up-and-down set of treads, you see. This staircase provides an additional living space for the family. It is transportation between levels, of course, but it is also a library, a cinema, a slide and a play/relaxation area.

The office area which sits beneath the staircase benefits from the ample book storage between the stairs. The rest of the family can grab the book they want to read from the other side of the staircase, as well.

When coming down from the upper level, kids and adults alike have the choice of walking down the stairs or using the massive slide. There is no question in our minds that if we were there, that slide would be in constant use.

But when playtime is over and family time is set to begin, the stairs also provide wonderful seating areas for everyone to sit back and relax. Movies are projected onto the rear wall, making the staircase into a kind of in-home stadium seating theater.

The family who owns the home wanted a compact space in which they could conduct their everyday lives without feeling too cramped. The multi-functional staircase fulfills that desire perfectly, squeezing the functionality of several rooms into the space of just one set of steps.

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Extra-Visual: Gorgeous Desk Has Multi-Directional Drawers

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Digging through your desk drawers for an important document or that secret Snickers you know you have hidden somewhere can come down to a cruel game of hide-and-seek, with you opening and closing drawers in quick succession for ages. The Cartesia Desk from COLORS would like to make life a wee bit easier by changing up the way those drawers open.

In a traditional desk design, all of the drawers pull forward. Most desks have a safety feature that makes it difficult or impossible to have more than one drawer open at a time. The Cartesia Desk, however, lets you open your drawers from two different angles.

The desk’s drawers can be opened either to the front or to the side, allowing you more visibility to find that lost Post-It note or whatever other urgent object is hiding way in the back. You may also open more than one drawer at a time, which is a huge benefit when you aren’t quite sure where you stashed something and want to go on an all-our hunt for it.

In addition to the revolutionary dual-axis drawers, the Cartesia Desk features a tiny drawer in the back for storing cords and cables. A clever slot along the back of the desk lets you pull those cords up onto the desktop for easy access. As stunning and unique as this desk is, you wouldn’t expect it to come with a reasonable price – and it doesn’t. The gorgeous piece of office furniture goes for $6000, in your choice of walnut or tamo tree wood.

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