Furniture with plywood is momentarily. We put it on the test

Flat packaging furniture gets bad rap – often considered a slight, poorly constructed and cheap in a way that is visually (and actually) non-recognition. IKEA, leader in this area, has progressed in improving the reputation of a category, but huge popularity (and convenience of furniture that can be built as easily, because they can break, they have cleaned the designers to experiment.

In recent years, we monitor the increase in smaller designers that put their list of this style. But the best way to see if something is worth it is to try it yourself. Thus, three employees at work tested products from three such brands-studio-studio furnish, insecure and Lucca house – to see what this is about.

Study oven

It’s not a secret that “he found it on Instagram” is usually not a compliment when it comes to your latest pulse purchase. So, I would forgive in thinking they are, because they have been memory strikes, Studio Furnis items in our attention from that very platform. When it comes to quality, however, their products are far from what would happen as you use. They are intentionally designed for the city living, where, according to their website, “the apartment that lives often means constant change”, but furniture that is easily placed on easy remarks of simple moves is often badly made. The small team of Brooklyn was founded by Tomas Mo in 2023. years, which leads design and production. Studio Furnis, who cooperated with Viso, makes it furniture from the Baltic Birch wood, and now they offer a small range of beds, side tables and chairs and chairs and chairs produce very chill habit The pieces also seem to order and design them to be flat and composed without screws or any tools.

Once we have arranged a piece I would test – tall, slender, Scandinavian-Meetings-’70s-Valulatory Curve bookshelf From the collection Nu, he offered to reject him, because their workspace is not far from my home. Since this is a solid wood, the box that came was long and heavy, but maneuvering. I was blamed to start the Assembly without some help; What if I messed it up? The unit came without the manual, so I relied on pausing videos on the website in my quest to compose it together. After sliding polishing in the slots of two sides-slopes-legs of the police, I realized that I put him backwards, everything turned over and ended. It meant that my unpackage process until the end, he took five minutes, instead of two and a half, it should be paying attention. It’s literally it.

The bookshelf is detached, the quality of wood and smooth ends extremely satisfactory. Perhaps the expected roughness according to the furniture this simple, but when it was done successfully, it can have the level of detail that Studio Furnis put in these pieces. The whole thing looked almost too good to be true – exactly what you want from the furniture with a flat package. I have no plans to move anytime in the near future, but now they asked me if I need a new frame of bed. –Kate dries

Unsure

Despite life in an apartment already filled with furniture, and professional danger is a constant desire for more. Transmission as well as every day with beautiful objects, when a particular object attracts my attention – and keeps it – then it is something worth exploring. Unfnshd is one such company. Their genera kept my attention abreast of the Instagram scroller and, thanks to the algorithm, after clicking on the ad only once, my feed is overwhelmed. The corner of my living room desperately “needed” side table – something fine and narrow, but it is nice to watch and Unfnshed’s side table matches the account.

According to the site, Unfnhsed was founded by Abdel Ibrahim in 2023. years; After realized by an earlier prototype of its first product, made of laminated plywood, it would be too expensive to produce, turned. The result is a very affordable price of furniture made of Baltic Birch, which is, as the name suggests, unfinished – beautiful canvas for creativity, if the wind moves you that way.

My little chair arrived in one box and was dead easily mounted. The chair arrived in just three parts – the upper part, and then the bits that make the legs – and shot together so fast that I was nervous I did something wrong. And I’m not surprised to say I liked my colleague Kate, inadvertently putting his feet in a way that I feel (and that) is wrong. I fixed my mistake, deconstructed and reconstructed the chair several times to reassure, and then done what I like to do wooden furniture: He painted him.

To be clear: The chair did not need a color, because the material itself is so high quality, smooth in touch and is fine. (If you want to paint or stain your piece, the site offers some Simple tutorials for inspiration.)

However, I love the project and was briefly obsessed with the idea of ​​an ice, forth blue side table. So I took things in my arms and painted the top of the chair and only one legs, to a subtle moment of contrast. When it was time to put a chair after the color was dry, I realized my mistake. In my lush fed, they painted a part of the leg that inserted the table in the table, which is why theplates thickened than before. It was a little fight to put a chair together and I had to really put my back to me to make the chair structurally sound. I did the best thing I could, swear for difficulty natures and put a chair in my place, where he now has a fake plant.

Despite the user error fault up, I love my chair! The rest of the irregular offers is also tempting and I can always use it bookshelf or a bench Or indeed, any surface where things are piling. For now, however, I’m at the capacity of the furniture – but in my apartment there is a Riketta IKEA policeman in my apartment fighting for her life. Once he succumbed, I have a vision and this time, I won’t make the same mistake. –Megan Reinolds

First thing I notice about it Lucca House 4×2 shelf When it arrives is that it is important if you live in the fifth floor, as well as the ruined stairs, as well. The next thing I noticed was that even though it was light, it was firm. While I unzip him and I go together, Maple Plywood is more resistant than cheaper things offered and particles offered by others, larger marks. The pieces slide tightly, so I have to take the hammer and touch the pieces together (with the protection of the Improvised Cardboard Pillows), but everything is held. The whole process is very fast, and there are no confusing guidance or keys to HEK to understand. In fact, in fact there is no hardware, but it is still firm enough to do everything I loaded on it.

It is visually fitting in my home as easy as physically. I am mostly not a light wooden type of person, but small strips of color on the edges keep the field to go too scandy modern. I have a multicolor / harlequin option, and the colors are muted enough to maintain it to feel childish. It feels different without screaming for attention and see that I will see for decades.

All this supports ideas behind Lucca House: that young urban people move every few years and need a beautiful, affordable furniture that can easily move with them. “We try to do it a simple and direct,” founder of Lucca House, Lucca Zerai, tells me. The shelves are intended for “idiots proving” and filled the niche between the usual disposable furniture available in other places and the quality of the gallery quality that most 20- and 30-and cannot afford. Which does not mean that the brand is not sophisticated; Zerai was previously working on the matter, a collector’s design gallery in New York and states Dutch furniture with a Dutch Fatrol since the 1940s as inspiration. Zerai brings that design of Intelligence Lucca, which makes everything in the house in its store in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Although the shelves now offered now, he will soon promise, a potential table and other types of furniture that urban professionals must try their best from home to home.

Zerai recognizes that there is a lot of designing design companies for a flat package, but he hugs the company. “I think it raises tidal tidal ships,” he says. “More people make things more or less local is a good thing. I think it will make consumers and make designers a little more sharper and more critical about what is produced and consumed.” So far, Lucca is getting up to monitor. –Jack Balderrama Morley

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