Barcelona-based design duo Alvaro Goula and Pablo Figuera have created the Orwell sofa, a futon with a difference. Its toweringly tall back and roof allows you to zip down a front curtain panel and shut the world out entirely, hiding within your sofa.

On the duo's website, the product is described as "is a piece of furniture somewhere between a sofa, a bed, and a 'cabin.' [...] The original idea of the product... was to recapture that intimacy which can sometimes be lost, even within our own homes."

The sofa's name, Orwell, is a reference to George Orwell's 1984, whose characters want to escape the oppressive dystopian world they live in where even their thoughts are monitored.

But its resemblance to a childhood fort is what is drawing most attention. "Orwell invites you to rest it in its interior and resuscitate that childhood memory of a “cabin”, that magical, hidden place that all children wished they had," the designers wrote on their site.

Design company creates amazing sofa fort to shut the world out when you please