These beautifully carved shelves serve a number of purposes or agendas: they work as shelves, as a room divider or partition wall – or, if you like, as something of a design statement piece.
Not unlike
designer Stepan’s Lucky armchair, his shelf design incorporates, celebrates a sense of retro with its fluid, flowing geometrical structure scheme. And its sensual curves work to show off the walnut veneer's natural,
Designed by
earthy grain. And in addition to this casually elegant
Luka Stepan
angle, the eight shelves also incorporate powder– coated steel book–ends.
Alongside the walnut,
Polygon is also available in solid ash and ash veneer, even a plain glossy white finish for a cleaner, more neutral effect.
At the time Stepan was approached
– via a post–graduate collective exhibition at London Design Week – MADE.COM was essentially a startup looking to disrupt the distribution system in the furniture business; and were one of the first to launch an exclusively online marketplace. Which in part drove the design to work as an efficient flat–pack solution; which in turn makes it efficient to ship long–distance and deliver; and in turn, again, means buyers/users have to assemble it themselves. So contemporary retro in every way.
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Polygon Shelving Unit
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