The most important Swedish house in the world is launching a new automatic furniture system called Rognan, developed in collaboration with the American startup Ori Living.
It is a single "aggregated" piece of furniture that moves on a track controlled by a touchpad to divide into two spaces one room: contains a bed, a wardrobe, a desk and a bed that appear and disappear as necessary. A typical IKEA environment, but with a Japanese twist.
It is designed for small homes, and aims to optimize spaces in contexts most overcrowded urban areas: it is no coincidence that the first countries to list the new IKEA environments will be Hong Kong and Japan.
Rognan is built on the principles of Ori's automatic platform combined with an almost ad hoc IKEA series, the Platsa. The environments literally change in a way that seems like that of a dystopian future made of minis nuclearized inhabited areas that transform themselves by modifying their internal configuration according to need. A scenario typical Japanese furniture, Miyazaki style, so to speak.
Imagine a future of even more upscale IKEA furnishings style and on Japanese philosophy. IKEA tatami, IKEA Japanese futon and so on and so forth.
The presence of Rognan, according to an IKEA press release, can save at least 8 square meters: in houses that have even 18 of them it can make a difference.
Here is a video that better clarifies the concept of Japanese-style furniture by IKEA:
Japanese friends (and friends of Japanese furniture, too): you will have a lot of fun with these furnishings. What did Master Miyagi say? Remove the tatami, put the tatami… or was it “put the futon, remove the futon”? My memory is failing me.
