Category: Magazine rack

Jorge magazine rack

Jorge is a magazine rack designed by Barcelona-based multidisciplinary studio Gauzak for company Quattria.

Part of a collection of three pieces (Marc, Camps & Jorge; a coffee table, an umbrella stand and a magazine rack, respectively), it’s executed in steel rods, a material that subtracts visual weight as it creates void volumes. It stands as a simple, straightforward structure, that could very well go unnoticed as it blends into its environment, or draw attention precisely because of its simplicity.

Combined with the leather handle, an elegant touch to the piece that provides it with a better grip for moving, both materials (steel and leather) have the quality to age well and be sober, lasting products, as intended by the designers.

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Guidelines

Guidelines, designed by Dutchman Frederik Roijé, is an innovative wall fixture that functions as a magazine rack. The magazines are held in place by two bent metal frames, one on top of the other. The manner in which the magazines are displayed is as if they were works of art. The playfulness of the structure conceals its surreptitious functionality. If I didn’t know better, I would have enjoyed this piece purely for its design.

I also find it interesting that, when looked up from the front, nothing but thin lines could be seen – it seems as though the magazines and rack amalgamate inconspicuously. Furthermore, the white colored rack placed against a white wall gives the illusion that the magazines are floating.

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Reading Table

German designer Uli Budde combined a magazine rack with a side table, thus creating Reading Table.

I could tell you how it works, but it’s perfectly self-explanatory – which may be the exact reason why I like it so much!

Reading Table comes in two different sizes, and two colours: white and red. I’ll take the white one ;-)

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