Design Miami/Basel 08: More from Kenny Schachter’s Rove gallery at the Design Miami show in Basel: this time Arik Levy’s Cubic Meter storage system.
The piece has a volume of one cubic metre and consists of seven separate modules that can be recombined in various configurations.
Levy showed an aluminium version (above), produced in an edition of five, in Basel last week. Top image and below: blackened oak version
Arik Levy
Cubic Meter, 2008
Aluminium
Edition of 5
One cubic meter (7 modules combined)
Also available in clear oak wood and blacked oak wood- each edition of 12
Above: clear oak version
June 10th, 2008 at 9:53 am
cool concept – but all open sided boxes makes for storing items within the cube impractical it seems.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Neat. But I would never be able to get it back together. And it has zero usability. But it reminded me somehow of a steamer trunk we had in the attic when I was a boy: it split in the middle and placed on edge, one side was for hanging clothes the other had a row of drawers. Now that was practical. Somehow the meter cube should have offered similar.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
i like the last picture
June 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
nice concept!
simple and nice to look at!
love the aluminium and the blackened oak wood.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I like it, because when you get round to finally chucking it away, it breaks down into various configurations for the wheelie bin and you don’t have to call the council to collect it.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
i don’t think I could get it back togethe….
June 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
i think it’s trendy because a lot of designers design a cube this year….
June 10th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
example Fractal 23 Takeshi Miyakawa
June 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am
example chair in a box by Hanz Julen
June 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Arik on the rock in Paris’ designers days
http://deco-design.biz/designers-day-2008-chez-knoll-cassina/#more-1227