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MVRDV's Vertical Village  Collection On Show At The National Museum Of Finland as part of Helsinki Design Week. What started as a radical urban vision for the densification of the East Asian Metropolis has now turned into an iconic series of furniture, bringing vision and innovation to your home. The pieces are available in a wide variety of shapes and colours – allowing you to tailor your own personal Vertical Village.

The product is flexible, waterproof, seamless, hygienic and comes in a range of striking and sophisticated colours.After the Vertical Village exhibition in Hamburg in 2013, a 4 meter tall installation made of 77 of these foam elements returned to the MVRDV offices, it was spontaneously used by the staff and visitors as furniture becoming part of office life. In daily changing settings it is used as seats, waiting lounge, playground, pedestal for models and even for the odd deadline powernap. And so a furniture collection was born as a by-product of urban research. The 26 objects are in the shape of houses proposed for the Vertical Village and one can sit, lounge, work and play. The coated foam is resilient and can withstand office life, family life and even outdoor use.

And why not put some unexpected architecture in an interior? A semidetached house, a volume with a gap or a cloud shape? The objects are not furniture in the traditional sense, they are more experimental and appeal by being surprising: How does one use a soft house in a living room?

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