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Designed by JDS Architects for Muuto
Leave it to an architect to create a shelving system that’s just as versatile as building blocks. The work of Belgian-Dane Julien De Smedt of JDS Architects, this modular system lets you create a shelving unit to fit your particular space and style. …
Leave it to an architect to create a shelving system that’s just as versatile as building blocks. The work of Belgian-Dane Julien De Smedt of JDS Architects, this modular system lets you create a shelving unit to fit your particular space and style. …
Leave it to an architect to create a shelving system that’s just as versatile as building blocks. The work of Belgian-Dane Julien De Smedt of JDS Architects, this modular system lets you create a shelving unit to fit your particular space and style. “Our projects are humanly designed, politically engaged, financially viable and structurally realistic,” says the designer. When asked how he sees the “new Nordic” celebrated by the Danish company Muuto, De Smedt says it is “like an embrace of a southern culture with a northern rigueur.” The embodiment of that vision, his Stacked Shelving System (2008) can be randomly stacked or precisely coordinated into a tight grid. The three shelves are scaled to accommodate all kinds of books and other media, and while there are only three sizes offered, there are actually five shapes to experiment with, depending on how you position the two rectangles. The negative spaces created between them give you even more orientation options. Each shelf includes a steel clip to connect two boxes together. Shelves are available in three styles: open cube, cube with backboard or cube with door and backboard. Shelves with backboards include a wall mounting kit. To order the wall mounting kit for shelves without backboards, call us at 1.800.944.2233. Podium and additional clips also sold separately. Made in China.
BELGIUM (FOUNDED 2006)
“Our projects are humanly designed, politically engaged, financially viable and structurally realistic,” says Julien De Smedt, founder and director of Copenhagen-based JDS Architects. With works such as the Maritime Youth House in Copenhagen and The Iceberg apartment building in Aarhus, Denmark, the internationally recognized designer and architect has generated a renewed awareness of architecture in Denmark.
De Smedt was born in Brussels ...
Walnut veneer, white pigmented ash veneer or white or dark grey paint over MDF (medium also available with hinged door or differently colored backboard); painted steel clips.