The nature of product design, and for all furniture design, being what it is, we all have a predisposition to categorise products and objects. Chair. Table. Lamp. Tea pot. For example. Yet, quite aside from the fact that we all invariably use products for purposes other than than that intended, the chair as the makeshift step ladder, the wine glass and makeshift candle holder or the Biro as makeshift knife, why should a product only have one function? Can it not have two or more without
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