Designers’ Open 2009: diefabrik

Its a little known fact, but the printer in (smow)HQ sits atop a “Block” by Frank Gehry.

Shelf114/Shelf115 by diefabrik

And indeed in general we at (smow)blog are long standing fans of corrugated cardboard furniture; and not only since introducing the world to Stuart Miller during the 2009 Saloni.

Shelf 114/115 from Leipzig based diefabrik didn’t quite set our hearts ablaze as much as Stuarts nameless chair, but did make us very happy.

It is a truly, truly ridiculous concept. Oval cardboard forms with exaggerated teeth spread along the top and bottom edge.

Ridiculous.

But the concept is also both genius and practical.

And not just for student hovels. Shops, offices, museums – and of course hoveling students – can profit from the simple ingeniousness.

Shelf 114/115 by diefabrik.

Speaks for itself really.

Great