| Inspired
by the built environment that surrounds him, Ruijssenaars
saw that gravity was the fundamental factor that binds
all architectural and design decisions here on Earth.
As he points out, "No matter what country you live
in or what culture raised you, gravity binds all urbanism,
architecture and design decisions."
Challenged to step away from the power
of gravity, Ruijssenaars graduated from using refrigerator
magnets and self-made models with ceramic magnets to
test the first idea, to finally making the world’s
“first non-gravity based object” in the
form of this floating bed.
Made of permanent magnetic material, the bed levitates
through the power of opposing magnets. No electricity
or other forms of energy have to be added in order to
keep it floating. Magnets placed in the bed push away
from magnets placed beneath the floor, thus causing
the bed to “float” in the air. Thin cables
attached to the four corners anchor the bed motionless
in its horizontal and vertical position, and the bed
can be installed both indoors and outdoors. |