Philips Bows CE Furniture

By Staff On Jul 7 2003 - 6:00am

Royal Philips Electronics is teaming with Italian furniture maker and designer Giulio Cappellini to design, manufacture and market an exclusive range of furniture featuring integrated home entertainment products.

The seven-piece line, called Fluid Landscapes, incorporates several Philips products — including two flat-screen television models, a DVD home entertainment system, an LCD projector and a Pronto Pro universal remote control — into sofas, sideboards and shelving units.

The project builds on the idea of creating a home in which the relationship between spaces and functions is fluid, mobile and interchangeable — thus doing away with the idea that an entertainment area is limited to a specific corner of the home.

In one piece, called Bookcase, a Philips 42-inch plasma-screen television and its tuner box, plus a DVD system and speakers have been built into a stainless steel bookcase on a revolving stand.

The furniture will be marketed through U.S. stores selling Cappellini products and Cappellini showrooms. Suggested retails and availability have not been set.