Leipzig-based designer Yi-Cong Lu has created a collection that adapts to the way we organise our day.
August 26th, 2011
Presented for the first time at DMY Berlin in early June, Living Tools is a furniture and lighting collection designed to create and change living spaces.
The intention of Living Tools, says Lus, is “to adapt living spaces to the very specific needs of the people.”

The collection consists of 3 components.
Lightboy, a light that can hang or lean on the wall like a broom, or stand upright.


Panel, a multi-purpose object that can act as a partition, a table, a wardrobe or a roof depending on whether it is standing, lying or hanging.



Fade, a curtain partition with moveable bars, to subdivide a room.

Lu aims to “design things for the people, that people can use and adapt to their way of living, their routines, how they use things, how they change things to another context.”
Because we all live and work differently – and sometimes living and workspaces overlap – Living Tools aims to test the limits of conventional architecture by providing completely flexible scenarios.

INDESIGN is on instagram
Follow @indesignlive
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
Merging two hotel identities in one landmark development, Hotel Indigo and Holiday Inn Little Collins capture the spirit of Melbourne through Buchan’s narrative-driven design – elevated by GROHE’s signature craftsmanship.
The undeniable thread connecting Herman Miller and Knoll’s design legacies across the decades now finds its profound physical embodiment at MillerKnoll’s new Design Yard Archives.
Inspired by the Samurai Kabuto (helmet), the Kabuto Chair, 1961, incorporates the same unique qualities – strength, comfort and prominence. The proportions ensure the chair wraps comfortably around the body, providing a feeling of protection. The kabuto is available in a wide range of quality fabric choices for commercial and residential applications. Dimensions: W518 d530 […]
That design and architecture should make people’s lives more pleasurable is perhaps unquestionable. How, exactly, is more subjective. Nigel Coates made some suggestions at INSIDE (World Festival of Interiors). Narelle Yabuka reports.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
Hecker Guthrie brings a natural, material-led design to Green Cup’s new Chadstone store, pairing pine, steel and glass with a grab-and-go layout inspired by the brand’s fresh, organic ethos.
Making a splash on the hair spa scene, the latest project from X + O makes a little slice of Japan right at home in suburban Melbourne.