Kinetic furniture design

Built out by YouTuber and woodwork craftsman Dekay’s Crafts, the ‘kinetic scissor door’ uses a series of folding segments to open in an absolutely eye-catching way. Most wooden doors either open on a single hinge, or a sliding rail, but Dekay’s scissor door fragments into 6 different pieces as it opens, and joins back into a flat panel when closed. VIEW MORE NOW!

Kinetic Sculpture: "Sine Machine": I know I don't have time to build my machine in the real world just yet, but I put it together in the CAD world first. The idea is to have a lot of simple moving parts that create an overall, fluid look. I have designed it to be operated by hand b…

Wave is a kinetic art prototype I designed in a day to test an idea for the start of a modular 3D printed art piece. Currently, the design is made to

Reader Submitted: Crane: A Playful, Kinetic Lamp Bringing Back the Joy of Mechanical Devices. lampada da tavolo #tablelamp

10 people, 18 sheets of plywood, 119 sections, 928 pieces, a $1000 budget and endless potential permutations - this wooden seating proposition takes its inspiration from kinetic Slinkies and reverberating see-saws, but is rigorously engineered and ergonomically sound. A pivot-and-bold system tra ...

Palo-Alto-based designer Robby Cuthbert studied both sculpture and architecture. The melding of both fields has yielded his approach to furniture design: "I combine the careful planning and engineering mindset characteristic of architecture," he writes, "with the freedom of form allowed by sculpture."One of Cuthbert's go-to materials is one we don't...

The Humble Velocipede, by Small Wonder Toys, is described as "a desktop bamboo walking machine." You may have seen Strandbeest, the massive kinetic

Transform embodies a vision for the future of interactivity where objects change shape to give physical form to digital information.

The room dedicated to the Wall at the 2014 Venice Biennale’s “Elements of Architecture” exhibition traces the development and evolution of walls over...

The kinetic sculptures of David C. Roy