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Designs for Furniture with Scissors Mechanisms

By father and son industrial designers

By Rain Noe - November 2, 2022

in Furniture Design

Swiss industrial designer Benjamin Thut is a fan of scissors mechanisms. He designed this Scissor Table, which can be unfolded nearly effortlessly:

And this Scissor Shelf unit:

The attraction to the mechanism runs in the family. Benjamin's father, Kurt Thut, was also an industrial designer, and the senior Thut designed this fold-flat Clothes Rack:

Benjamin Thut is also the guy who designed that toolbox-based hideaway workstation.

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Wout Verstegen

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That foldable table is just excellent. I can see that being really handy in studio spaces.

I'm not a fan of foldaway storage in general. Where does all your stuff go when you fold in the shelf? It should be on the shelf, thus it being collapsible doesn't make sense to me. The scissor mechanism is aesthetic at best. If there is an example of it being useful, I am happy to be convinced otherwise though.

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