| dc.description.abstract | In most of man’s endeavours to survive, different things are needed to make the journey easier
and more comfortable. Among the many there is furniture.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, furniture are the movable articles that are used to make a
room or building suitable for living or working in, such as tables, chairs, or desks. We need
furniture for more comfortable lives. We use it for storage, sitting on, and sleeping. Going
beyond the basics, it also expresses our sense of style and enhancing the overall look of place.
Furniture can be classified according to purpose (place of use), functionality (human activity
that takes place on it), form and construction and technology used. (Smardzewski, 2015).
Due to increasing population and costs of living, living and working spaces are getting smaller
and more expensive especially in the urban areas, and as needs and life circumstances change,
so does the furniture. This has made space-saving techniques imperative.
As a result, designers, in collaboration with engineers and manufacturers, sought and developed
solutions for space-saving, like collapsible furniture. Collapsible furniture can also be called
Transformable, space saving, or foldable furniture. Such pieces have been in people daily lives
for a long time, and are especially common during or in picnics, vacations, school, functions
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