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Hyper Utilitarian

Small space design to maximize urban living

Implications - As urban lifestyles drive the shift to smaller living spaces, designers are striving to innovate compact appliances. Wall-mounted kettles, dishwashers, fireplaces, or utensil dart boards are specifically designed for these homes.
Trend Themes
1. Compact Living - As urban living shifts to smaller spaces, innovators are designing compact products like wall-mounted appliances, stickers and foldable furniture.
2. Space-saving Design - Innovations like wall-mounted and foldable products offer space-saving options by turning wall space into functional areas and maximizing storage.
3. Futuristic Design - Futuristic and sleek designs, like the wall-mounted kettle and fireplace, offer homeowners living in small spaces functional designs that are visually appealing.
Industry Implications
1. Home Appliances - Compact and wall-mounted appliances like kettles, fireplaces, and dishwashers have disruptive innovation opportunities in urban living markets.
2. Furniture Design - Foldable and space-saving furniture designed like wall art offers disruptive innovation opportunities for compact space living, workspace areas, and transportation markets.
3. Home Decor - Design stickers that resemble luxury goods and pets have disruptive innovation opportunities in the home decor market for urban living spaces, rental spaces, and commercial spaces.
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Featured Examples

Mural Dishwashers
Mural Dishwashers
Horizontal Design Hangs On Wall
Tired of unloading the dishwasher when the dishes are clean? A totally new dishwasher concept designed by Marie-Christine Lacasse and Marie Claude Savard, and unveiled at the University of Quebec in Montreal… MORE
Futuristic Fireplace
Futuristic Fireplace
Gaya Flaming Mouth
Designed for living spaces without proper burning ventilation, Safretti's offers this line of wall-mounted fireplaces. The Safretti Gaya Wall-Mounted Fireplace is the type of design you image will adorn… MORE
Small Space Living Wall Decals
Small Space Living Wall Decals
Can't Have It, Stick It
In our material world, surely there are a lot of things you wish you had, but can't afford, or perhaps don't have room for in your home. To solve that problem, there's the *can't have it? stick it* decals,… MORE
Furniture as Wall Art
Furniture as Wall Art
burJET Fold-Out Picture Seating
When you have a really big, empty wall space and limited seating, buroJET of The Netherlands has the ideal design for you. What at first appears to be modern art are actually pieces of furniture that… MORE
Wall-Mounted Kettles
Wall-Mounted Kettles
Diamantine
If you’ve mentally mapped out your futuristic dream kitchen, the Diamantine is a must-have to add to your list. The wall-mounted kettle was designed specifically for small-space living, eliminating the… MORE
Utensil Dart Boards
Utensil Dart Boards
Thout UtiliTile
The THOUT UtiliTILE is a storage unit for your utensils. Instead of storing your spoons, folks and knives in a drawer, you can hurl them as you would a dart or a knife into this mounted tile on your wall.… MORE