Flat-Packing Knockdown Bookcase for Shelving on the Go
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 07.27.07
TreeHugger does love the flat-pack furniture and architecture, mostly for its ability to do more with less, create structure and function from materials not that much bigger than a piece of paper, and slide under a door, if necessary.
Because flat-pack furniture is easy to ship and build multiple times, it's a great modular option for those of us on the move a lot; a new example we submit for your consideration is the Knockdown Bookcase (no relation to the other knock-down furniture we've seen), which does the job without glue, hardware or even an instruction manual.
Each piece is identical and just slips together to create a modern, modular bookshelf, and the design variations are limited to what your imagination can dream up. Designed by ::Sung Won Park via ::Yanko Design
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Okay seriously,
I know it's fun to post concept products, but it's actually enormously pointless and frustrating to post lists of products that are great, and that we would actually want and use, and then for us to find out that it's actually just ANOTHER Yanko Design link.
Seriously. Could you perhaps mark these out as NOT REALLY EXISTING.
As a matter of fact, maybe you could put more emphasis on helpful products that DO exist, rather than modular shoes and modular bookshelves which do NOT exist.
Yeah, I'm looking at moving a bit in the future and I love smallish apts/lofts. So it is a little depressing to get so hyped up about something but without a "buy now" link at the bottom.
I have to agree with the other posters. I am getting a bit frustrated with concept products, too. I look to Treehugger to show me good products that I can get, that will last a lifetime, and be green for real.
My first thought on this bookshelf was that it was great because I will be moving often. Then, it turns to frustration because it's just another concept product that will probably never see the light of day.
seriously, why would something so ridiculously simple not be available? then again, it would be considered exclusive and high-end which would counter the 'practical' and environmental intentions anyway. not-to-mention it would cost waaaaay too much money for most people that actually DO care about projects like this to afford...eh, such is life! ;]
to me, square pieces of wood with cuts in them to hold other similar pieces of wood is not very conceptual at all. what is the concept behind doing something that's been done thousands of times before?
btw...plywood is NOT very 'green' and shouldn't be on treehugger..(it's not recycled or re-appropriated plywood).