If, like me, you have ever lived in a small apartment, you know that there is no good place to put furniture that you need sometimes but not all the time (like extra chairs). Therefore, Orla Reynolds is my new hero. Her furniture emerges “as if from nowhere” — her bookshelves hide a table and four extra chairs.

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Four extra chairs, stowed away in useful modular shelving! This knocks Murphy beds right back into the wall.

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