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Interactive Couch

 

Forget couples counseling to tell you you're drifting apart from your lover.  A UK designer has come up with a concept that’s illuminatingrelationships from their living rooms.

This sofa is embedded with patterned lights which react to seating arrangements. As a couplesit apart on the sofa, they are surprised when a cold blue patternbegins to grow around them signifying their distance apart from eachother.  With the pattern changing in relation to weight and proximity,as they move towards each other warm pink petals begin to formrepresenting their closeness.
 
Using light emitting(Electroluminescent) technology in conjunction with trigger sensitivematerials, the pattern is displayed in relation to where a person issitting.  The petals will randomly illuminate around your body anddisappear when you move to another spot, meaning an ever evolving andchanging pattern display occurs. With the thoughtful and playfuldevelopment of the pattern, the wonderment of where the pattern willlead adds to the experience of using the sofa.

Juxtaposed:Religion

Designed by Mike and Maaike
Curated by John Simonian
Reclaimed hardwood
36”w x 5”h x 8”d
Offered in a limited edition of 50.

5,084,000,000 people 5,360 pages 3,700 years 243 countries 7 books 1 shelf.

For the first time, the world’s most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.JUXTAPOSED: Religion is the first in the Juxtaposed series of curated bookshelves.

At US $2500, this idea isn't cheap, but how can you put a pricetag on brotherly love.