Vanessa J Samet

US Patent:

20050027553, Feb 3, 2005

Filed:

Jun 19, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/871325

Inventors:

Vanessa Samet - New York NY, US

International Classification:

G06F017/60
A47C007/00

US Classification:

705001000, 705026000

Abstract:

A novel approach to furniture design has now been developed, thus providing furniture consumers with an improved method of customizing, redesigning and purchasing furniture. The present invention uses the Design-It-Yourself™ system to assist the purchaser in designing a more customized and more affordable piece of semi-custom furniture. The present invention also uses the Design-It-Yourself™ system to assist the purchaser in choosing alternative structural and design elements for a previously designed piece of furniture to modify the design of said piece of furniture. By practicing the disclosed invention, the furniture consumer will now enjoy a method of furniture design that allows the consumer to design a piece of furniture in the store (real, virtual, catalogue, or otherwise) where said method lets the consumer choose structural and design elements based on design and associated cost, and allows for the future modification of said designed furniture. The advantages of using the present invention include: semi-custom designed furniture at an affordable cost, future alterability of the designed furniture piece and the availability of customer service assistance in the design of said furniture.