Here below are some collection of creative and unusual sofa bed designs from around the world:

Acceleration Sofa

Copenhagen based designer Phillip Grass has come up with a concept for a space age sofa called the

“Acceleration”

Velvet Sofa

Beautiful sofa designed by creative designers Andrea Fino and Samanta Snidaro

Swimming Pool Sofa

Concept sofa design from advertisement campaign for Piscine Castiglione, a swimming pool design firm.

Star System Sofas

Creative sofas designed by Enrico Buscemi and Piergiorgio Leone

Intended as an adaptation of traditional chesterfield sofas, the collection has removable steel buttons.

The ‘Star-System’ is made with double density polyurethane foam, removable bielastic fabric and wide

steel buttons (3 cm. diameter) shining under the lights like a graphic constellation. The patented

unhookable steel buttons make easy to remove the fabric cover.

Scrubbing Brush Sofa

It indeed looks like a giant brush adorned with thick bristles, but each of these comfortable bristle is designed to give you a relaxing massage. Its a very different take on the most common furniture that we see in every house. The designer has given a whole new angle to this seating furniture by merely turning it upside down.Instead of legs, the sofa features a flat platform-like support. The seating area (in this case it would be appropriate to call it as lying area) is fully covered with soft mini-pillars. All you have

to do is just jump on it and adjust yourself to fit amongst these pleasure pillars.

Steel Sofa

special steel sofa by the English steel artist Ron Arad. A horizontally divided and then deformed

truncated cone serves as the base of seat and back. This sofa, 218 cm long, made of a chrome

-nickel-steel sheet that is only 1 mm in thickness is made stable by closing all over the open edges

of cut.

Wall-Climbing Sofa

Lila Jang’s Wall-Climbing Sofa is perfect for that odd corner of the house where no other furniture

fits.

Nido Sofa

This modern piece of furniture has a metal structure and is covered completely in expanded

polyurethane

The Twisted Sofa

Here is another outstanding original furniture design from Nina Edwards and her Nea Studio collection

that is sure to be the focal point of any room it graces. The Twisted Sofa appropriately named is

perfect for a modern interior that is focused on great looks and versatility. The flexible fabric

covered L shaped Twisted Sofa incorporates a daybed and seat on the backside for a most versatile

seating concept. After much testing, two types of foam were chosen, a firm foam for the seats and a

softer foam for the back rests making a surprisingly comfortable experience, uncommon for a sofa

possessing such dramatic visual appeal.

Sofa One

Sofa One is a fun, functional, and clever sofa designed with an eye for imagination and utilizing space to the utmost.  A modern masterpiece that will charm and delight!

Origins of the coffee table

The 1st tables, in Europe, specifically designed as and called coffee tables, appear to have been made in Britain during the late Victorian era.
Prior to the late 18th century, the tables used in Europe in conjunction with a settle included occasional tables, end tables, centre tables, and tea tables. By 1780, the high backed settle was being replaced by low back sofas and this led to the development of sofa tables which stood against the back of the sofa and could be used by anyone sitting on the sofa to put down a book or a cup.

According to the listing in Victorian Furniture by R. W. Symonds & B. B. Whineray and also in The Country Life Book of English Furniture by Edward T. Joy, a table designed by E. W. Godwin in 1868 and made in large numbers by William Watt, and Collinson and Lock, is a coffee table. If this is correct it may be one of the earliest made in Europe. Other sources, however, list it only as ‘table’ so this can be stated categorically. Far from being a low table, this table was about twenty-seven inches high.

Later coffee tables were designed as low tables and this idea may have been introduced from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. However, as the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s and low tables were common in Japan, this would seem to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

From the late 19th century onwards, many coffee tables were subsequently made in earlier styles due to the popularity of revivalism, so it is quite possible to find Louis XVI style coffee tables or Georgian style coffee tables, but there seems to be no evidence of a table actually made as a coffee table before this time.  Joseph Aronson writing in 1938 defines a coffee table as a, “Low wide table now used before a sofa or couch.  There is no historical precedent…,” suggesting that coffee tables were a late development in the history of furniture.

Also use has been recorded in the ancient Greek era, following the Roman conquest in North-East Africa.