Normally we think of convertible furniture as transforming from one useful thing into something else with a practical function. A good deal of transforming furniture looks or feels better in one configuration or another, but this three-in-one by Roel Verhagen-Kaptein is appealing in each of its transformations.
This comfy number is not one nor two but three pieces of furniture in one: a sofa, lounger and a chair.
Be sure to scroll all the way down: the best (pictured briefly above) has been saved for last and check here for more unusual urban furniture. Why is transforming furniture so alluring? Does it appeal to our sense that innovation is progress, the fact that fewer materials for more uses is sustainable or simply a return to the childhood love of things that we can actively change and shape as we wish? Whatever the reason, these designs range from humorous and impractical to jaw-droppingly cool.
