{"id":283,"date":"2025-09-04T04:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:10:34","slug":"industrial-designer-develops-unusual-wooden-connectors-for-flatpack-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/283\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Designer Develops Unusual Wooden Connectors for Flatpack Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"4d0f3_5171\" data-ic-marker=\"47a48a_8\">Although flatpack furniture is typically made of wood, the connectors are almost always metal. Bucking the trend, German cabinetmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nurholz_\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Mahle<\/a> has been developing wooden connectors since his time as an Industrial Design student at Bauhaus University.<\/p>\n<p id=\"376799_849\" data-ic-marker=\"12ea7a_19\">Now, some four years after he&#8217;s graduated, here&#8217;s Mahle&#8217;s latest connection system:<\/p>\n<p id=\"fa57d9_2590\" data-ic-marker=\"fbd42b_51\">Production plans are unclear. Mahle has a company, <a href=\"https:\/\/nurholz.eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nurholz<\/a>, but at press time their website had little more than a landing page. <\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Although flatpack furniture is typically made of wood, the connectors are almost always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}