Our new Pinterest board features a number of storage designs, including staircases that double as bookshelves, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s Corniches shelves and a writing desk in the form of a life-sized mule. See our new storage Pinterest board»
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Product news: Dutch designer Reinier de Jong has scaled down his extendable REK Bookcase so it can be used by children to store books and toys.
Reinier de Jong released two smaller versions of the bookcase, first designed for his son as miniature copies of the 2008 model. “Despite the iPad and its countless toddler apps, my two-year-old son is very fond of his little books,” he said. “So I decided it was time for his own shelves.”
Each unit is made from five lightweight, poplar wood sections that slot exactly into each other.
When pulled apart, compartments are created between the horizontal elements for storing small items. The sections can be pushed back together again to save space.
The original REK Bookcase was one of our most popular stories when we first featured it in 2008 and it’s included in our Dezeen Book of Ideas. The design went into production earlier this year.
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As the seasons change, it’s time to switch out the clothes. It’s a labor-intensive process that not many people like, honestly, but some early preparation can make the process a bit smoother. In the northern hemisphere, we’re currently moving from warmer weather to cooler temperatures, but the following advice applies for those of you in the southern hemisphere moving into warmer months.
Before you buy any storage containers, plastic bags, or similar items, get your hands on a label maker. It’s the most useful tool for this project. We have one of these handheld models because its easy to carry around. When you get to the bin stage, you’ll want the label maker to label whose clothes are in which bin and to note the contents (“Jane’s winter clothes,” “Dave’s sweaters,” etc.).
My wife and I have tried two brands of vacuum bags, and neither have worked for us. Despite following the instructions to the letter, both brands began filling with air within a matter of weeks, defeating their purpose entirely. If you’ve had good luck with a particular brand, please let me know.
For us, the answer is large, plastic bins. You can find these at home supply stores, some hardware stores and big-brand DIY stores like Home Depot or Lowe’s. Make sure the lids seal tightly and that they’ll work with your storage method before buying (stackable, side-by-side and so on).
Before placing clothes inside, ensure that they’re thoroughly clean. Locking your shirts in a sealed bin with some insect larvae you didn’t notice in September means you’ve created an all-you-can-eat bug buffet for little critters. Check the bins themselves for the same thing. If you are using plastic bags, ensure that no moisture is inside and there’s no chance of condensation. Throw in a few cedar balls and/or natural herbal moth repellent sachets for a little more protection. Do not store clothes in thin plastic dry cleaning bags for long periods of time as the plastic can decay and ruin your items.
Here’s a lesson I learned the hard way: a hanger is not a good long-term solution. When I was living on my own as a bright-eyed 20 year old, I kept several sweaters hanging all summer. Once fall arrived, they all had hanger-induced bumps on the shoulders that would not go away. If you don’t have any other option, fold the items and hang them in their folded state over the straight bar of the hanger and then group the hangers inside a garment bag made to repel moths and other fabric-eating insects.
When stacking heavy objects like sweaters in a bin, put them at the bottom of the pile. That way they won’t crush lighter items, allow air flow, and prevent mustiness. Finally, check on your clothes once a month to make sure that none of the aforementioned problems have cropped up.
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Dutch Design Week 2013: the aluminium structures of these cabinets by Rotterdam studio Minale-Maeda poke through their plywood skins to create a coloured grid on the inside and dashed patterns on the outside.
The Wrong Colour Furniture System by Minale-Maeda has a structure made of anodised aluminium, with teeth in the bars that bite into the plywood panels and secure them in place once slotted together.
Each bar is colour-coded in cyan, magenta and yellow according to its orientation. The ends of the bars pierce the plywood panels where they are attached, creating a distinctive grid pattern on the outside with vertical cyan dashes and horizontal magenta ones.
The yellow components are only visible behind the legs and inside the cabinets, framing each module with a yellow square.
“The name Wrong Colour comes from the idea that it is like an X-ray of a piece of furniture, processed with imaging technologies like in baggage scanners to highlight differences in densities between materials and better separate them when they overlap,” Minale-Maeda told Dezeen. “It follows the idea that the project is about transparency in production and construction, and the colours are crucial in highlighting the separate elements.”
“The other reason to have three different colours is that they serve as a guide in the assembly of the piece, because each plane has a separate colour so it aids in picking the right parts for each panel and later in assembling the panels into a box,” they added.
The modular units can be stacked in different configurations and can be ordered with or without doors direct from the designers. “There is great flexibility in materials and colours that we are experimenting with, so custom schemes is one direction we are developing and the other is having a greater variety of module sizes,” they said.
Wrong Colour Furniture System was nominated for the Dutch Design Awards and is on show alongside the other shortlisted projects as part of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven until Sunday.
“Many influences converge in this piece of furniture, including those of Rietveld, Mondriaan and Japanese culture,” commented the selection committee. “It is a modular system turned inside out in an interesting way.”
Naples-born Mario Minale and Tokyo-born Kuniko Maeda founded their studio in 2006 after graduating together from the Design Academy Eindhoven. They often highlight the method of construction a key aesthetic component in their work and past projects include plywood furniture joined with 3D-printed connectors and a collection that can be downloaded and produced locally.
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Product news: design collective Outofstock have created a shelving unit inspired by suspension bridges.
Bridge shelves, designed by Barcelona- and Singapore-based Outofstock are produced by the Danish company Bolia.
Firstly, a wooden baton is attached horizontally to the wall.
From this, three solid oak shelves of different lengths are suspended using bent steel rods.
The user can configure their own arrangement of the unit by moving the shelves along the baton.
“We have always been fascinated by the beauty and engineering marvel of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge” said the designers. “Strong and functional, at the same time awe-inspiring.”
Other projects by Outofstock include Hatched, a birds nest-inspired cafe and Vanity Shelf, a hanging storage box and mirror.
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Product news: this wooden sideboard by Mexican designer Hector Esrawe is intended to reference the way raw materials are stored in piles.
Stack Buffet by Hector Esrawe is a long black-lacquered sideboard that can be built from either walnut or ash.
Two drawers are contained at one end, inside what appears to be an irregular stack of wooden panels. The other end is an open space for displaying larger objects.
Two criss-crossing pieces of wood are fixed to the base to provide the feet.
Hector Esrawe, who leads Esrawe Studio, previously collaborated with Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos to design a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City.
Other sideboards we’ve featured include a television cabinet with perforated doors and a collection of sideboards carved with geometric patterns.
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Flasso is specifically intended for countries like India, where milk is usually sold in packaged plastic bags. Glass milk bottles are redundant here and the Tetra Pak varieties are too expensive. The Flasso is basically a milk flask designed eliminate the need of transferring the milk from the pouch to a utensil and then heating it. Easy to manufacture, distribute, maintain and use, this bottle flask will keep the milk fresh and hopefully curb tampering as well.
Designer: Subinay Malhotra
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These wooden shelving units and tables have been designed by South Korean designer Lee Sanghyeok to look like scaffolding (+ slideshow).
The Useful Arbeitsloser (Jobless) furniture range by Lee Sanghyeok includes two shelving units and two tables of different sizes.
The lightweight wooden furniture features a similar criss-crossing structure as building scaffolding and is fixed together with polished brass joints.
Sanghyeok claims that scaffolding can be seen as a metaphor for a designer who, like himself, lives and who works in a foreign country. “Scaffolding is is always passed by, constructed and moved away without much attention, but is still a necessary element in construction sites,” he said.
The Useful Arbeitsloser (Jobless) project was first exhibited at Nomadismi at Gallery Altai, Milan earlier this year.
Sanghyeok Lee studied at Design Academy Eindhoven and now runs his own studio in Berlin, Germany. His past projects include a table where closing one drawer causes another to shoot out at random, which won second prize at the [D3] Contest at imm cologne in 2012.
Other furniture we’ve featured on Dezeen recently includes an expanding shelving unit by Stephanie Hornig that can bunch up or stretch out depending on available space, storage units made with textile skins by Meike Harde and furniture by Emiel Remmelts that require concrete blocks, bricks and magazine file boxes to prop up one end.
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Photography by Jaeuk Lee, courtesy of Lee Sanghyeok.
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Product news: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have added three new colours to their Corniches shelves for Vitra.
The Bouroullec brothers chose dark grey, khaki and orange to supplement the black, white and Japanese red colour options that Swiss furniture brand Vitra launched last year.
Corniches is a storage system comprising shelves with rounded undersides that can be grouped on a wall to create a landscape of useful surfaces. Made from ASA plastic with a high gloss finish, the shelves are available in several different shapes and sizes.
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s suspension lamps that dangle from tangled wires recently went into production with Flos, while an exhibition dedicated to the brothers’ career is currently in progress at Les Arts Décoratifs museum in Paris.
Vitra has also put its latest range of updates and reissues from the archive of French designer Jean Prouvé into production.
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Here’s a short description of Corniches from Vitra:
Corniches arose from the need for small stor- age spaces to spontaneously keep items. “The same way that we hang our beach towel on a rock jutting from a cliff before diving into the sea, we need small storage spaces in everyday life, too”, explains Ronan Bouroullec.
And this is the reason that Corniches are neither regular shelves nor simple horizontal surfaces, but rather individual, isolated protrusions in the environments that we create.
Whether as a key rack beside the front door, a spot to put the soap dispenser in the bathroom, as a pedestal for a small collection of objects or as a large installation, Corniches are a new way to use the wall in your living space.
(Related movie) In this movie filmed at Vitra’s London showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week, Erwan Bouroullec explains that office environments are changing now there is less storage for papers and books.
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This expanding shelving unit by Austrian designer Stephanie Hornig can bunch up or stretch out depending on how much space you have.
The Set shelving comprises a beech-wood frame with scissor-like pivots plus folded steel shelves. These sit over rails between each joint and stop the structure stretching any further.
“Strategic cut-outs form shelves that can be fastened on the axes of the flexible structure in order to fix it in position,” said Stephanie Hornig.
She explained how the positions of the notches allow the unit to rest in three different positions and small bookends can be slotted against the diagonals in a similar way.
Other adaptable bookshelves on Dezeen include interlocking shelves that slide out to make space for more books as required – one of our most popular stories ever – and hinged boxes that can be spun round to create a neat grid or a scattered circle.
Here’s some more information from the designer:
Inspired by braided structures I aimed to design objects that could create a two- or threedimensional pattern that is stretchable. The resulting shelving system is based on the principle of a scissors grid with extended axes to make room for shelves.
This creates a superimposed image of diagonals, which is adjustable and can be fixed in three different positions. Bended, powder-coated steel sheets with strategic cut-outs form shelves that can be fastened on the axes of the flexible structure in order to fix it in position.
Additionally, simple bookends can be inserted that lean directly against the wooden struts.
Materials: beech wood, steel
Dimensions: variable
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