Backpack Sofa

Written by Stephen Regenold Mar 23, 2010 9:07 a.m. ET

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I need one of these for the Gear Junkie office! As seen today on the GetOutdoors blog and home-décor site Apartment Therapy, Belgian designers Quinze & Milan have teamed up with backpack-maker Eastpak to create the “Backpack Sofa.” The mash-up design appears to take Eastpak fabric, zippers, labels, and straps and tag them onto a cushy big block of a couch. Now which backpack pocket did I drop that remote control into?. . . —Stephen Regenold

Quinze & Milan prototype “Eastpak Sofa”

Stephen Regenold

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Stephen Regenold is the founder of GearJunkie, which he launched as a nationally syndicated newspaper column in 2002. As a journalist, writer, and gear nerd, Regenold has covered the outdoors industry for over two decades, including as a correspondent for the New York Times. A father of five, Regenold and his wife, Tara, live in Minneapolis.