Shingle Shelves

One of the 21 projects presented at the D3 contest during IMM Cologne 2013, Hanna Krüger's Shingle Shelves and Shingle Cabinet is a leather and wood storage system that seeks to bring an exterior architectonical element into the house.

Among the 21 projects presented at the D3 contest during the lastest edition of IMM Cologne, German designer Hanna Krüger presented Shingle Shelves and Shingle Cabinet, a leather and wood storage system, consisting of diverse shelves and a small cabinet.

Shelves and cabinet feature a series of sliding laser-cut leather "shingles", which evoke the image of a shingle roof by delicately layering above each other in different formations. "Shingles are covering the roof of a house like the skin of a body or the fish scales of a fish," states Krüger about her concept and intent. "Here, the shingles are connecting the outside with the inside: an architectonical element is becoming part of an indoor furniture."

The leather shingles are a dynamic element, since they can be moved to cover or "close" different parts of the furniture. However, the entire shelf or cabinet can never be fully closed, an aspect which Krüger defines as crucial to her design: "the user can find his own aesthetic view on the visible spaces, the things that are put in the furniture are becoming part of the picture: a rhythmical play between the visible and the invisible".

Krüger's choice of materials conspires to create an object that will show the signs of time — crude maple wood for the structure, aluminium for the backboard, leather for the shingles. The leather doors will darken with exposure to light, which according to Krüger will reveal "the beauty of usage over the years."
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012
Hanna Krüger, Shingle Shelves, 2012

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