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Designer/Cabinetmaker Marcus Götschl's New Gen

By Rain Noe - May 7

in Furniture Design

Based in Munich, Marcus Götschl is a Master Cabinetmaker who also holds a degree in Product Design. Götschl shows a little outside-the-box thinking with his New Gen bed:

"The focus is on minimising resource consumption and using replaceable components, challenging the culture of disposable consumption. Simple production, construction and flat pack shipping make this bed accessible to many people."

Götschl realized that staggering the legs, which makes the assembly work, wouldn't make any difference in the bed's stability.

I can't speak to what's required to make the legs, but the other two components are surely simple to gang-cut.

Assembly is straightforward:

One thing to look at might be, whether overhanging sheets (or worse, a calf) would snag on the protruding tips of the cross-members.

New Gen won a "One&Twenty" design prize, awarded to emerging designers, earlier this year from the German Design Council.

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Anthony Towers

6 months ago

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I suspect that will creak and squeak with every movement

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Adam Nunn

6 months ago

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Do those thin horizontal supports give the bed some spring by bending sideways? interesting design to pre-stress them as they flex across the width of the bed.

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