Shellf
Prompted by our recent post on single-drawer Less Stuff, Belgian industrial designer Pieterjan Deblauwe sent in this prototype he made a fw years back.
If you’re a bit like me, your first response will probably something like ’Okay, a shelf, yeah, so?‘ In that case I suggest that you read the next line and then quickly click on through to the rest of the images.
What you are looking at here is Shellf: a bedside table to hide your little secrets. The designer says this:
Objects take volumes out of the space which surrounds you. Here the idea is to use the space which is taken by the object.
Pretty smart!
- 23.02.2010 .
- Maarten P. Kappert .
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- Furniture design
- Object:
- Shelf
- Designer:
- Pieterjan Deblauwe
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Ooh I like the secret compartment. Is there a light from the edge touching the wall, or is that a lucky element of photography?
Hi Minor, hadn’t noticed that ‘light’ yet! It’s kind of hard to tell but it looks like a by-product of the photography to me (especially since it is just a prototype). I’ll check with the designer and let you know.
The photography is rather peculiar. It’s heavily retouched, if even real.
- Quite unrealistic shadows in Pic 3
- Circular pattern in carpet in Pic 3
- Both pics 2&3 were shot from the exact same viewpoint, and there’s lots of zoom, judging by the distortion of the room’s corner. In order to make this possible, that is, if you’d want to, using a tripod is absolutely necessary . But then you’d say that the photographer had put the camera in balance. Why tilt it just slightly? So I say no tripod was used, and only one picture was taken. Which is pic 2.
On a sidenote, the shellf seems mounted just about 1 foot high, which seems odd for a demonstrational prototype. But maybe this was done just to hide the secret compartment even better.
All this doesn’t explain a thing, except that the photography and post-production were botched so heavily that it’s safer to say that some photoshop amateur got carried away a little, than to expect some mysterious lightsource to come out of this shelf.
Which is, by the way, a very cool shelf. Secret hiding places make me feel young again.
Hm I guess “bed side table” explains one thing :-)
There are some simple explanations to the doubts Joost has :-)
The light on the wall, is because the shellf is lacquered with automotive paint, which has a pearl effect to it, so all the reflections and weird shadows come from simple, yet complex light-reflections.
The circular pattern on the carpet is the footprint of my wardrobe from Rodier, by Valeric Doubroucinskis.
All the pics are taken on a tri-pod. Problem is my camera (sony dsc-T1) doesn’t have a screw to fit it on the tripod, so I made a small clamp to hold the camera, which doesn’t let me control the “straightness” of the camera.
And, yes, I shopped a bit, because the plastic skirting in my tiny bedroom isn’t of good quality.
I should get a more professional camera ;-)
Thank you or the possitive reactions!
Pieterjan
so, is there any way to purchase shellf?