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Wouldn't Work on a Murphy Bed (ouch!), Art Imitates Furniture

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Smart design, yes, practical, well, we don't care so much.  This painstakingly built, strangely beautiful storage unit has an allure all its own.  Using 80,000, yep, count 'em, bamboo skewers (as in shish kebab, or maybe satay), Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz has covered this wonderland of undetectable (sort of like the Zoom-Room(?)) nooks and crannies to store whatever you might want to hide in a rather large rectangular Chia Pet.  In its closed state, this so called Magistral Cabinet is already hypnotic.

With its cabinetry wide open, and the full extent of its storage space revealed, it becomes an artful piece of expandable, perhaps functional, furniture (but certainly functional art).  With its secret hinges, apertures, and niches, the cabinet transforms into an almost useful armoire, though mostly it just looks like a Wookie.

Who new convertible furniture could be this much fun?  We saw it first on 3Rings.