Engineering student Ben Carpenter didn't let his being wheelchair-bound stand in the way of his cosplay dreams, converting his chair into a menacing buggy that looked straight out of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Chandeliers are mounted on tracks, allowing them to move across the room; tables suspended from wires can rise to the ceiling; chairs convert into boxes.
And when I was renovating my house, I slept one whole summer on a narrow futon that converted into a chair, jabbed periodically by its metal frame.
Other comforts include corner shelves to hold cards and flowers, carpeted corridors, $30,000 patient beds that convert to easy chairs and plush window seats that fold out for family members who stay the night.
With prices starting at a few hundred dollars, the booths will offer clocks cobbled together from Victorian hardware, an 1870s upholstered rocking chair converted into a wheelchair, guitars decorated with salvaged gauges, and old bicycles kitted out with GPS and new brakes.
It easily converts into a booster chair for family meals at the dinner table, and it can adjust to grow with Rihanna.
The Q chaise, a fabric-covered foam rubber lounge, folds into a 27-inch cube or converts into an upright chair with an ottoman.
When used to line your shirt — or even your pillowcase or office chair — it converts subtle differences in _______ across the span of the clothing (say, from your cuff to your armpit) into electricity.
Mannequins, fashion videos, and a small stage set of Hussein Chalayan's wearable living-room furniture (a telescoping wooden coffee table that becomes a skirt, and slipcovered chairs that convert into suitcases and dresses in case you have to leave town on short notice) introduce the general themes of "body," "shelter," and "identity".
Beginning with a single volley of flights between Kennedy Airport in New York and Heathrow near London, but expanding to all of its long-haul routes by the end of this year, British Airways is the first major airline to equip its business-class cabins with reclining chairs that convert into fully flat six-foot beds.
