flat-pack

British

adjective

(of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer

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Just down the corridor from Nick’s flat-pack bedroom is the costume department, where designer Adam Dee says he likes giving mega-fans things to spot.

From BBC

Lining Yao, who leads the “Morphing Matter Lab” at CMU says the team was inspired by “flat-pack furniture”.

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Flat-pack furniture, such as that sold by Ikea, comes tightly packed in a box, but then can be built into a large piece of furniture that takes up a much greater amount of space.

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Flat-pack furniture is easy to store because it takes up so little space.

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Sending flat-pack furniture is also much easier on the environment because there’s very little wasted space in the delivery vehicles.

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