Tetris furniture

Brazilian designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov created this stacking Tetris furniture -- the tricky part is getting your spouse to slowly lower it, piece by piece, from the ceiling.

Tetris Furniture (via Neatorama)

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Anonymous

Some tetraminoes are more equal than others it seems.
sswaan

I get a new bookcase of some sort about every six months, and so my little home office is just like an ongoing game of tetris. Now all I have to do is paint everything the right colors.
Anonymous

I’ve seen this so many times now and I still think it’s a great idea.
Alpha Omicron

Not actually Tetris, whose shapes and colours are mandated by a standard put out by Alexy Pazhitnov’s Tetris Company LLC.
Chris S

Not even non-standard tetris … some of the shapes are made from 3 squares or 5 squares on the face.

Now … THESE guys ( http://www.bravespacedesign.com/product_tetris_flat.php ) have “tetris storage” that gets the features right – although maybe not the colours.

And this bunch ( http://tetrisfurniture.com/products/ ) only produce one shape (the T), but that’s the really flexible shape.

How about pentomino furniture, a la Clarke’s Imperial Earth? You get all twelve pieces, and then have to figure out how to stack them in various rectangular configurations.

(Memories .. I read Imperial Earth with only one eye!)
Anonymous

A word of warning: it may be tempting to line these up into perfectly aligned rows, but please don’t. Trust me on this one.
Piers W

I’m amazed no one’s done soma cube furniture

http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/somacube.htm

Although Arne Jacobsen collaborated with Piet Hein on a super ellipse table which is still in production.