yukari hotta: kile storage furniture

















yukari hotta: kile storage furniture


wooden wedges

japanese-born and denmark-based designer yukari hotta, graduate from the danish design school,
has made a nice and simple bookcase that can be assembled solely by using wooden wedges.
no extra metal fasteners are used at all.


wooden wedges holding the joints of the furniture together


'KILE' storage furniture


'KILE' storage furniture





comments:


seriously ikea should take a look at these kinds of designs to save the massive frustration of assembly from their customers. also, think of how many returns they can avoid because people over turn screws and crack the particle board. great practical design that's good for the people.
chuck 03.01.10



While interesting, the bookshelves I have are hinged sides and backs. They collapse in one piece and they are stackable. d;-)
Jetwax 03.02.10



What is going on with the link to the danish design school. Look likes this story is taken from the biggest design blog in Denmark, Dagens Design which is not exactly a design school.
hmm weird.
Peter 03.04.10



This concept is around 80 yrs old!! I have furniture in my house that my grand father had bought long ago. I guess the Designer can take credit for coloring
the wedges!!
Merv 03.05.10



Yeeah.. I like it even if the concept / joints are not a new innovation. But in the end, old innovations are often better than all kind of new ones, torx, Philipps a.s.o. message to Merv, it is probably more than 10 000 years old innovation, they used his kind of solutions in Egypt / Inkas, and all the other places with civilisations. and in stone age aswell.
Larz 03.06.10
























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