Student creates snap-together furniture

PROVO — College students move around a lot — and 26-year-old Clark Davis, who just obtained his mechanical engineering degree from BYU, decided he wanted to make that process easier.

He created a furniture line, Gypsy Modular Gypsy Modular, that you can break down and set up in minutes.

"Part of the beauty of it is that it all works with wood, and you don't normally think of wood as something that snaps together," he said.

Davis has created a whole line of simple, snap-together furniture; a business that he runs out of a tiny 8-by-10-foot room in a Provo duplex. He says the idea developed over time, but he knew there was a need by just watching campus activity at end of semesters.

"Just the other day I was driving down 7th North here and passed a car coming the other way," said Davis. "And there was (a woman) hanging out of the window holding a dresser on top of the car."

It was this kind of sight that inspired Davis to come up with easy-to-assemble, (or disassemble) no-tools-needed chairs, desks, shelves and benches that come wrapped in plastic, and sent to your front door.

Lately he's concentrating on smaller versions for children's rooms.

This creation earned Davis first place in the first Student Innovator of the Year competition last fall at the College of Engineering at BYU.

Up next for Davis? In true entrepreneurial spirit, he hopes to sell off the idea and develop something new.

Email: kmccord@desnews.com