If you’re a college student or a young professional in your first apartment, you’re probably well versed in assembling Ikea furniture. But soon after, those vital hex wrenches always seem to go missing, and when it’s time to move your bedroom set, it’s off to the hardware store to try and find a replacement. So thank goodness the folks at Nendo came up with a better solution: furniture that assembles using nothing more than the loose change in your pocket.
Developed for Kokuyo, a Japanese office furniture maker, the modular Ofon line is comprised of a series of boxes and panels that can be mix and matched to create shelving, filing cabinets, desks, and even dividers. And the various pieces all connect via a clever mechanism that can be locked and unlocked using a quarter, or similar sized currency. Now does anyone have 25 cents we can borrow? [ofon via designboom]
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