The myKEA furniture system is about enabling people to design and make their own furniture to fit their homes and lives.
By allowing individuals to have input, their thoughts, ideas, time and energy into an object; it should gain value over something that was simply bought over the counter.
The myKEA furniture system enables people to be involved in the fabrication process of beautiful functional furniture, taking the interaction with our furniture beyond assembly. The system uses an interactive web site that allows people to size their furniture, and arrange it with objects they already own, and preview a 3-dimensional virtual model of the potential end result. This information can then be printed along with a listing of all the materials needed to make the piece of furniture, and instructions on how to assemble it.
The individual would visit their local myKEA outlet to purchase the processed ‘smart’ wood needed along with the CNC (Computer Numeric Controlled) portable router which position so that it can locate itself relative to the wood piece by reading the pattern imprinted on the ‘smart’ wood. The router can accurately cut the parts needed for the individual’s piece of furniture based on the digital data from the myKEA website when they first created it virtually, essentially ‘printing’ the furniture pattern in wood. The joints are of a special design, allowing the furniture express its modular nature.
These parts would then be assembled by the individual according to the printed instructions with the special clips also purchased from local myKEA outlets.
