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Award-winning shelving system Hanibal.
Hanibal shelving system.
Innovative purism Looking to furnish your rooms in elegant purism, but think it is way too expensive? Think again, because Tojo Möbel GmbH proves you wrong. With great passion for design, quality and inventive creative ideas, the company is developing furniture with a special aura, but affordable pricing. TEXT: THOMAS SCHROERS I PHOTOS: TOJO MOEBEL GMBH
Founded in 2000, Tojo Möbel is a dynamic company aiming to create furniture with timeless design and a distinguishable functionality, ecology and economy. In the past, this concept has won wide-spread recognition, as Tojo’s pieces have won numerous awards with regard to design and quality. As an underlying idea, all items need to enable the user to reduce them to a functional basic form, which is the rectangle board. From this basic element, all of Tojo’s furniture is developed while sustaining their simple beauty. One such design is the Tojo-Parallel, a hugely variable bed system that adapts to the needs and wishes of its owner. Consisting of only six supports and a flexible number of slats, the Parallel can be put together, expanded or reduced within minutes. In practise, to enlarge it, one can change it from 100x200 centimetres to 200x200 centimetres by simply fitting in 18 | Issue 42 | September 2016
a couple of additional slats. At the Iconic Awards 2016, the design won the Interior Innovation – Best of Best Award. Furthermore, with the Tojo-Hanibal, the innovative designers have created a modular shelving system. The Hanibal is based on H-shaped elements, which are stacked on each other with the help of a sophisticated mechanism with no screws. The Tojo-Hanibal, which won the Interior Innovation Award in 2015 and was nominated for the German Design Award in 2016, is available in four different sizes and juxtaposition allows you to find the right combination for every room. The described inventiveness is prevalent in all pieces from Tojo’s extensive collection. With unique sophistication, CEO Gerald Schatz and his team are able to find furniture solutions that abstain from screws, pinned fitting and bonding as
Parallel bed system.
much as possible. In the end, this affects the pricing of the furniture, making them particularly popular with young people who appreciate both the one-of-a-kind designs, but also the moderate cost and the adaptability and extensibility of them. www.tojo.de Tojo-Parallel.
Winning the Best of Best Award, CEO Gerald Schatz on the right.