Red Nest By Paul Coudamay Hides The Bed With A Sliding Bookcase

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto

from: http://www.treehugger.com/

Photos by Benjamin Boccas via Paul Coudamay

TreeHugger has shown many ways to hide the bed; most are designed to gain more space. But the Red Nest by Paul Coudamay doesn't; the bed is still there taking up space, but is hidden by the sliding bookcase. Why do it?

The designer is quoted in Mocoloco:

"The bookshelf is a mobile block that controls the opening of the bed. Its U-shape covers the bed and shapes the room by closing the dressing area, the bed or the working space. The mobile system provides a closed sheltered bed as required by the client without completely shutting the space."

Sliding the bookshelf to enclose the bed on three sides will add to acoustic and visual privacy, almost acting like a canopy bed. Opening it up will facilitate making the bed. In noisy urban cores of cities, it is an interesting solution to a big problem; Books are a great sound absorber.

More in Mocoloco and at Paul Coudamy

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