Dive summary:
- This is pretty unlikely as an issue for U.S. home builders, but what would happen if your buyer showed up to move in with a dining room table for 10 that weighed 265 pounds – without chairs, mind you? But it does have a wood grain.
- There is also a 154-pound bookcase in the collection that French industrial designer Matali Crasset has created to show at Interieur 2012 in Belgium later this month.
- It isn't just about the show, however. Crasset is working with a European firm called LCDA that already ofers furniture made of the materials used in building construction.
From the article:
Think moving a stack of college textbooks or lifelong LP collection across the country is tough? Try humping this set of concrete furniture to your U-Haul – just looking at it can trigger phantom back pain. ...