Metamorphic furniture

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I've seen a modern interpretation of this dressing table and it was lovely but this... swoon.

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Oh, we think we’re so clever with our storage ottomans and Murphy beds. As it turns out, double-duty furniture has a long and rich history. Pianos turning into beds, bookshelves turning into tables, even, incredibly, a sofa that transformed into a bathtub. A cousin of campaign furniture, metamorphic furniture was designed to change functions and often involved moving parts.

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I thought I'd get the New Year of 2012 off to an Ackermann's start and post the wonderful Furniture plates they published for the years 1809-1828. Back in the Regency your home fashions were just as important as your personal wardrobe so Ackermann's included nearly as many furniture plates as it did fashions in every monthly issue. I have found these images to be a wonderful treasure trove of digital inspiration and I hope you do too. My favorite of all the Furniture plates have to be the…

An iron bound, painted pine trunk by J. T. Thompson that opens to form a 6ft. brass and iron bed with canopy. This form of campaign bed was extremely practical in that it could be assembled very quickly. The maker described it as composed of metallic drawn tubes, one tube over the other; but the simplicity of its construction is its chief merit. The whole bedstead is in one piece, with the legs attached, and merely the act of opening fixes those legs without any fastenings whatever; with a…

Circa 1820 George III mahogany metamorphic library table with oak step ladder. This rare beauty is a type of dual-use metamorphic furniture consisting of a library table that transform into a step ladder. This table can still be used as a library table/desk. The library table has dummy drawers design on each side with beautiful brass handles. However, when it is transformed into a library ladder it is best for display and not for daily use. As this is an old piece, the ladder cannot withhold…