With the improvement of living standards and changes in lifestyles, the continuous growth of urban population has led to the continuous increase in living costs. More and more people choose to use renting as one of the ways to solve the housing problems in the transitional stage.
"Renting furniture" refers to furniture that targets the behavioral characteristics and psychological needs of renters to solve their living needs and improve their lifestyle. Due to economic and spatial conditions, renting furniture has higher requirements for cost, transportation, installation and storage, and pays more attention to the practicality of solving problems.
They appear in a concise, general and concise form. This is "Less". Behind it is the designer's day after day thinking and attentiveness, and this is "More".
This topic focuses on the category of "rental furniture", and invites outstanding designers in the industry to discuss the new needs of the rental market, as well as the new furniture design principles and design methods brought about by this, and collide with real views, concepts and attitudes to inspire each other in cutting-edge design inspiration.
Review of the previous issue: "How simple is it to rent a house? We talked to three designers...》
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"Less" and "More" for renting furniture (Part 2)
Zhou Anbin
Handy Design Founder
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Please recommend 1 to 3 furniture that best meets the needs of the rental family in your mind, and explain the reasons for the recommendation?
Zhou Anbin: The first model of is the Lack small square table that IKEA always costs 39 yuan. The reason for the recommendation is that this square table is really too classic. I bought it when I was in college, and it is hard to escape the clutches of this style after graduation. It is cheap, simple in shape, convenient and easy to use. It doesn’t hurt to abandon it when moving. If it is well protected, you can disassemble it and then install it back.
(Lack) Small Square Table
The second recommended are two sofa beds , which comes from the Jiangsu brand currently being cooperated with: OLOVSON. Rental houses are usually small in size, mostly in single rooms or one bedroom and living room. When you accidentally need to receive friends from afar, the sofa bed can meet this need well.
There are really not many beautiful sofa beds on the market that are both good-looking and cost-effective. The two recommended sofa beds just meet this demand.
EMA Sofa bed
Bird's Nest Sofa bed
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Cost is always a proposition that cannot be avoided by renting furniture. How should designers create a sense of high-end through low costs?
Zhou Anbin: good steel is used on the blade, and the same low-cost design requires more focus on the design. , for example, pays more attention to the proportion and lines of the product in a simple appearance, and spending more effort on the selection and matching of materials can create a high-end feel. If you blindly pursue the design shape or process, the cost will only be spent on production and manufacturing.
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The concept of "sustainability" is currently hot. As a furniture category with high liquidity, renting furniture is frequently transferred or discarded. How do you think renting furniture can achieve sustainable use?
Zhou Anbin:
product can be disassembled and assembled repeatedly, convenient for transportation and carrying;
material can be recycled and degraded, with high cost performance;
product design is classic and outdated and of excellent quality, making consumers unable to bear to abandon it.
Dexian design work: "Qingfeng Chair"
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What aspects do you think the design of renting furniture needs to be added? Where to do subtraction?
Zhou Anbin: Rental furniture should pay more attention to the user's living habits and housing type matching issues. also has cost-effective and simple structure research, as well as cheap, durable and recyclable materials research, and subtraction in design appearance and shape.
Wang Hong
ZJ·DESIGN (HKSZ) Zhijian Design Founder and Creative Director
JIANMO Design Furniture Brand Founder and Creative Director
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Please recommend 1 to 3 furniture that best meets the needs of a rental family in your mind, and explain the reasons for the recommendation?
Wang Hong: The sofa of the Arbour brand is a compact and durable sofa that can be wrapped, relaxed and sustainable. Independent frame structural parts and software can be replaced and removed, making it more environmentally friendly, durable and sustainable, and is suitable for the needs of renters.
Arbour's sofa
and Pyramid Tables, which have a very simple frame and shape, giving the impression of being clean and tidy. It is compatible with dining, working, and drinking tea in rental spaces. The concept of "less is more" is well interpreted on this table.
Pyramid Tables
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Cost is always a proposition that cannot be avoided by renting furniture. How should designers create a sense of high-end through low costs?
Wang Hong: designers should be familiar with the characteristics and application of materials. Only by first mastering the characteristics of materials can be better used in product , while avoiding waste of materials.
In addition, designers also need to have some understanding of process and industrial processing. can save human resources and achieve standardized production by understanding industrial processing and equipment, so that materials and structures can be designed reasonably or even used skillfully.
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The concept of "sustainability" is currently hot. As a furniture category with high liquidity, renting furniture is frequently transferred or discarded. How do you think renting furniture can achieve sustainable use?
Wang Hong: To achieve sustainable use of , is first of all, the love and emotion for this product. of course also depends on paying attention to the environmental protection and durability of the product materials, as well as reasonable functions and compatibility, moderate product size or portable storage.
to Simplified Design Work: "Embrace Hug Sofa Chair"
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What aspects do you think the design of renting furniture needs to be added? Where to do subtraction?
Wang Hong: designers should start with the demands of renting a house, solve the pain points from the perspective of furniture application, and increase the enthusiasm for life. Refine the furniture category scale to make it more in line with the rental space and use scenarios.
has put more effort into researching product functions, and its functions are more inclusive. Some products of must consider storage and multifunctionality. these are aspects that are worthy of more thinking and addition by designers.
In addition, designers need to subtract the decorative products to avoid excessive.
Class Bow
BANG OFFICE Founder
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Please recommend 1 to 3 types of furniture that best meets the needs of a rental family in your mind, and explain the reasons for the recommendation?
Class Bow: I recommend two IKEA furniture products to renters: Lak and Wuku, one is a coffee table and the other is a simple wardrobe. I have used both pieces of furniture and purchased more than once, and I think they are perfect for today’s rental theme. The reason why
is recommended is that the price is cheap. 79.99 yuan and 49.99 yuan are almost no pressure for current renters.
Secondly, the weight of the product is very light, the flat packaging is easy to carry, and the assembly method is also very simple. The installation instruction manual is only two pages, and it is more durable because the structure is too simple.
Finally, these two products are both good-looking and practical in their price range, and can make your rental life more convenient and comfortable.
Lak
Wuku
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3 Cost has always been an unavoidable proposition for renting furniture. How should designers create a sense of high-end through low costs?
Class Bow: The use of more and more mature synthetic materials is one of the directions.
Due to the development of production technology, many synthetic materials are at low cost, and their material texture and quality of use are infinitely close to or even surpassing the raw materials themselves.
In the current furniture industry, most buyers are still enthusiastic about the authenticity of the materials, but for renters, the use of low-cost + high-end synthetic materials in furniture products can be satisfied.
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The concept of "sustainability" is currently hot. Rental furniture, as a high-liquid furniture category, is frequently transferred or discarded. How do you think renting furniture should achieve sustainable use?
Class Bow: Rental furniture gives us the impression that it is cheap, easy to get bad, bad, and discardable.
Change this concept to make products sustainable, on the one hand, it may require a greater social level of publicity and education on environmental protection concepts.
On the other hand, for designers, in addition to designing them to look better and durable within a certain cost range, whether to provide better repair alternative accessories solutions is also a solution.
Ban Gong Design Work: "Chair 002"
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What aspects do you think the design of renting furniture needs to be added? Where to do subtraction?
Class Bow: Rental furniture should pay more attention to aesthetics and design. Regardless of the price, buyers have the right to pursue beauty. Even cheap products should still remain original. There are too many products that are price wars on the online shopping platform and look exactly the same.
