Forget about frustrating little wooden pegs, screws, bolts, and head-scratching instructions. The furniture of the future is easy as can be to assemble and disassemble, and it does away with literal ...

[Photo: Mike Massaro] That’s why British architecture firm IF_DO has designed an office building that can be dismantled and fully rebuilt elsewhere, like flat-pack furniture. The $485,000 building is ...

Learn how to pick the most environmentally friendly, ready-to-assemble furniture. Before Ikea became a leading source for house fittings, buying any item of furniture meant hauling it home in a truck, ...

Spanish startup 011h is betting on timber as a humble hero to ease the climate and housing crises. It's making materials in a factory and then assembling buildings on-site — like Ikea furniture. The ...

If you've had to move house often, or needed to live in compact spaces, you'll love this. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a way to produce flat-pack furniture using a robotic ...

With a generational shift in lifestyle and a constant desire for style-led interiors, manufacturers are creating pieces to cater for these needs without any compromise on the aesthetic. Looking at the ...

Putting together flat-pack furniture can be arduous and frustrating. So why not let robots do it instead? A pair of robot arms can now assemble an IKEA chair in just a few minutes, and without arguing ...