Naturoscopie Shelf by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has designed the Naturoscopie Shelf.
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Description from the designer:
This shelf takes its inspiration from basic structures found in nature. From the cell to the star and planetary systems, the universe is formed of elements in networks and interconnected materials. This design piece interprets and shows the fundamental structure of life, whether envisaged on a microscopic or macroscopic level.
Visit Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s website – here.
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Mark Amaira on 22 Jun 2012 at 2:00 am #
Simple but very intelligent
Andy D4 on 22 Jun 2012 at 7:26 am #
Beautiful design its like sinu stretching around the platforms! love it!
James on 22 Jun 2012 at 3:16 pm #
So you wanted to relate shelving to the microscopic and macroscopic universe, a little far fetched, it just a cleverly designed shelving unit but I get that you have used a very clever design, very original and pleasing to the eye.
Rudy on 23 Jun 2012 at 6:57 am #
Why is there no picture with items on the shelves?
Perhaps they distract or compete too much with the design?
No No on 24 Jun 2012 at 6:43 am #
@James, the Parti: “Taken from the French (prendre parti) meaning to take a stand, establish a philosophical position. This position would relate to the solution of the basic scheme for the [piece]. It is to form the meaning of the plan’s resolution, the fundamental solution of the functional program.” So, ya know, give a little leeway, eh…
The integrated “pegs” (notches) at the shelves mid-span, and the three cross-bracings from front to rear (that aren’t the obvious “handlebars” at the ends) are brilliant!
Did anybody else wonder how it was constructed? I sat there staring at the structure, wondering how you could manufacture the “tubing” or how much would have to be solid aluminum, and how the molten welds for those shelf support notches would work… Then I looked at the designer’s work for Bernhardt, Cecotti, etc. and thought: Duh: it’s white-lacquered WOOD with furniture joinery underneath! So you *could* actually manufacture this in quantity, provided you didn’t need to support outrageous loads. Then I read the gallery description elsewhere, and… wrong again: it’s actually “carbon fibre, paint and soft touch varnish, aluminium honeycomb, copper”. So @Rudy, yes, we hope it can hold more load than just “two lemons and a Hasselblad”, as Victor Papanek once said.
Rudy on 24 Jun 2012 at 3:12 pm #
@ No No
That is not what I meant. I was pointing at the fact that neither items placed on the shelf nor the frame would benefit from it. It is a beautiful frame but it is attracting all attention by crisscrossing all over the place. Art objects placed on the shelf will be overpowered by the frame. I don’t see it as a bookshelf either.
Bassel on 25 Jun 2012 at 5:25 am #
Very nice, I’d love to see a varation of this with galss shelvs.
shane on 25 Jun 2012 at 10:21 am #
I have to agree w/ Rudy. Although the shape is interesting objects would look out of place, which the shelves already do (in my oppinion)
Rogero on 29 Jun 2012 at 2:21 pm #
The question is: what in the world perhaps to be “the right place” to put objects?
That beautifull design perhaps to be one.