Hasta La Ideas

Outdoor goods company Snow Peak was started in Japan’s Sanjo City, a place “known locally as a hardware town.” So it’s no surprise that their Stacking Shelf Container 50 has got that “tooled” look. What is surprising is how it can be locked in two different configurations and stacked in either one.

At first this had me scratching my head, but I realized that when you need access to stuff on different levels, the “butterfly” configuration makes sense. And it’s kind of neat that the rubber feet at the corners remain the lowest point of contact no matter which configuration it’s in.

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