Krattenkast

Against a very tall wall one could stack a serious amount of books, maybe not just on a pile, but neatly in a cabinet. A bookcase is not just an archive or storage. The bookcase exposes and hides, stores and arranges. The bookcase is about exploring, choosing and not being able to choose. So many books. It climbs two storeys high. A skyscraper made of books. To be able to access all those books, a platform branches off from the existing mezzanine. There, the furniture almost becomes a little piece of architecture, it forms a specific place to choose, to read. There’s a new place. A new view, previously non-existent.

To carry or to be carried. The osb-columns bridge floor to ceiling, firmly and thick. Sometimes the column becomes a beam to form the platform. And then back to column again to make a handrail. The mezzanine and banister branch off from the fins. Different depths make it playful and reveal the design system: there are primary and secondary carriers. Three plates together is pretty thick. A little joint helps it seem thinner. Attached to the wall invisibly with a dead straight mounting bar.