Category: Desk

T-723-X1

Looking for a nice minimalist desk? Switzerland based furniture manufacturer Colin SA created a plain desk, named T-723-X1, which is easy to move and simple to assemble. No tools or screws are needed to assemble the desk of FSC certified multiplex plywood.

The T-723-X1 is available in a raw version, natural planed and grinded plywood, and a lino version, desktops covered with black linoleum.

There is also a brother: the T-723-X3. The cross-beams of this version go through the table top and are visible on the desk top, whereas with the T-723-X1 they end right under the table top.

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KINK

Osko+Deichmann, the product design studio founded by Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann, created a minimalist family of tubular steel furniture named “KINK”. While normally tubing used in furniture is bent the Berlin design duo rather functionally folded, dented and kinked the tubes in their furniture pieces. The traces that come with the steel process are now integral to the furniture’s design.

The family consists of a table, chair, writing table, cantilever chair, sideboard, shelf, coffee table and floor lamp made exclusively of tubular steel, pine wood and clamps.

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DEX desk

Reinier de Jong recently presented another refined furniture piece: the DEX desk. The Rotterdam (The Netherlands) based designer created a minimalist and compact desk suitable for small spaces.

The desk is made of two horizontal cross shapes laths of solid wood in which a drawer unit is placed. The desk is available with two or three drawers. They can easily be pulled out to provide a place for a printer which can be control from the desk seat. I like the subtle color accents of the drawers!

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Oak

This is Oak, the result of an extracurricular, collaborative student workshop at Lund University School of Industrial Design, Sweden. The goal: to explore archetypes and stereotypes in the world of furniture. The group developed a range of independent pieces, but which are actually impressively coherent. Of course it helps that they’re all made from the [...]

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Milk mini

Denmark’s Søren Rose studio created a new member of the Milk product line: the Milk mini.

This small console table for your notebook is a slimmer version of its predecessor offering a simple solution for those who have a smaller workspace. The table is mounted in a way so that it leans against the wall. Despite the fact that the table has half the calories it features 2 rooms and a notebook storage.

The Milk mini comes in a low (73cm) and a high (109cm) edition. A custom color for the tabletop is available for an extra fee.

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Neat

Neat is a minimalist table designed by French designer Christophe Pillet for Kristalia.

The construction of the table is simple and straightforward, aluminium, plywood, and white lacquer.

Christophe Pillet says:

The chair and table I have designed are ambitious projects, not only due to their design but also to the difficulty involved in industrially producing them. These objects are simple in shape but technically complicated.

Clean, light and elegant design. I love it.

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Halo

Halo is the new design for Dune by Egyptian designer Karim Rashid. For this design, Rashid has left his usual organic lines behind and developed a rectilinear desk. He explains:

Visually quite simple, its asymmetry corresponds to the different kinds of storage required in an office. For example, the two open spaces can serve to house a computer and/or printer.

Halo has translucent acrylic sides and an MDF top, which I think is an interesting but successful combination. Both materials are available in a range of intense colors; how great would that look in an all-white office?!

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Shift

Digital fabrication has allowed for the advent of minimalist designers to manufacture products with unprecedented results. Seamless design coupled with precision accuracy defines Alain Berteau’s Shift console, desk, and table for Feld. Shift, which is made of lacquered HPL panels, hides slim drawers within its sleek aesthetic, and includes a structural beam for cable management.

The form on the console desk is particularly appealing due to the symmetry of its legs and surface.  Overall, the design is straightforward, clean, and functional.  The console can contain three or four drawers, and the table with eight or ten drawers. Additional colors include red, navy, black, or brown. The furniture is flat packed for convenient shipping, and can be easily assembled.

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Milk

Danish designer Søren Rose Kjær gave us Milk, a smart desk to keep your workspace clutter free.

Inside the large table top, Milk holds a cable drawer, cable exits, and an integrated front file.

The most interesting however, ate the four eye-atching square modular spaces. These can be customised into garbage bins, pencil holders, an iPod drawer with in-desk cable routing, and even as an aquarium.

The Milk will be produced by Holmris, a Danish manufacturer of office furniture; the price is yet to be released.  (Thx, Colm!)

Globus

No world globe this time but a beautiful, multifunctional, space-saving work station that’s equally at home in a public environment or an office.

The Globus has a cast aluminium base on wheels supporting a moulded plastic globe with two sections. Once it is opened, the wheels are blocked. One half of the globe is a comfortable seat. The seat’s swivel action makes sitting down and standing up very simple. The other half of the globe hides a small table that can be easily adjusted for height.

This personal mobile workstation is made by Dutch designer Michiel van der Kley for Gispen and Artifort

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