Janjaap Ruijssenaars Floating Bed

Category: Contemporary Furniture | 5 July 2006 

Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars created a floating bed that would allow you to sleep in a bed that is floating in mid air. Estimated to make you poorer by US$146,953 for just the scale model ( he never mention about the actual scale but I bet it would be 1:100). The actual model would cost about US$1,533,419, now why would I want a floating bed? and would it sort of float away? and the untimate question would be - is it powered by normal electricity? What happen if there is a sudden blackout during the night? Yeah - we got a new name, Death Bed!

Nice concept, but I would prefer a magnetic stairs. Hidden away when I don’t need it, and somehow the flight elevate accordingly when I am about to travel up or down.

Janjaap Ruijssenaars Floating Bed

Janjaap Ruijssenaars Floating Bed

Janjaap Ruijssenaars Floating Bed

Ruijssenaars was also showing off a smaller version at the Milionaire fair in Kortrijk that goes for a more affordable $146,000; at 1/5th the size of the regular model.

“No matter where you live all architecture is dictated by gravity. I wondered whether you could make an object, a building or a piece of furniture where this is not the case — where another power actually dictates the image,” Ruijssenaars said.

The bed has been designed to resemble the Monolith from Kubrick’s movie ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’. How about a floating chair?

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2 Comments

  1. Karen
    on October 28th, 2007
    1

    I think it is very cool, when I saw this in the National Geographic Kids, I was wondering then what I shall do for the 6th grade science fair, and then I saw it then, I thought maybe I should make a floating chair, well because if I made a floating bed it will probably be too big to go in to the school. Thank You.

    Karen

  2. bryan
    on March 11th, 2008
    2

    “What happen if there is a sudden blackout during the night?”

    nothing. permanent magnets

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