Luxury Automobile Manufacturers turn Interior Designers

Things must be getting tough in the Luxury Automobile market. I can’t imagine why car makers would be turning interior designers otherwise. But this seems to be the latest trend. This is a selection of furniture and other interior design products being made by car manufacturers:

The Aston Martin sofa

I really can’t see one of these in my sitting room, and it seems fairly well put together, but according to autoblog, it will set you back around $7,300. A bit much for something I would only consider sticking in the basement

The Porsche 917 seat

This one appears not to be a factory official seat. Built by Inspired design in the UK.

It seems a shame to push it up against a wall what with the effort that has gone into the back of the design.

I think I would prefer the original design.

Then of course you have the Maserati Lamp

Well, if Aston Martin can make a sofa, Maserati can make lamps. This one is actually rather stylish and I might consider actually using this one.

The Maserati lamp is designed by Marco Morosini and the Lumina website is horrible in the way only Italian websites can be. I still like the lamp though.

Pininfarina have been designing cars as well as interior design products for ever, so I suppose this is not exactly a new trend.