Boutique and luxury hotels often pay careful attention to the furniture in each room. Instead of generic stuff that looks like it came from the clearance section of Wayfair, they give guests name-brand beds, nightstands, desks, and chairs. The functions are more or less the same, but they come in a prettier shell. For Salone del Mobile, the annual furniture fair in Milan, industrial design students at ECAL created a collection of hospitality furniture that’s dramatically different–equal parts clever, bizarre, and inventive.
Some of the designs make perfect sense. A headboard features a fold-down backrest for when you’d like to prop up and read or watch TV. A height-adjustable table hitches to a bed frame, freeing up floor space. Designer Jasmina Celikovic added clips to a duvet so it could convert into a Snuggie, a pocket to a bed sheet so small items like eye glasses and phones are in reach, and made a pillow whose density you can adjust. Another bed features storage cubbies in its base.