Uncover the brand new vibrant and versatile storage system by String Furnishings and Type Us With Love

Immediately recognisable due to its ladder-like metal wire sides, the common-or-garden ‘String’ shelving system, first launched in 1949, quickly turned a design icon due to its affordability and suppleness. Its makers, String Furnishings, haven’t stopped innovating since, producing a sequence of useful, pared-back designs together with desks and chest of drawers – and now a brand new storage system by Stockholm-based studio Type Us With Love.

‘Heart Heart’ by Type US With Love and String Furnishings

Offered at Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design 2024  (12-14 June), the brand new ‘Heart Heart’ assortment was designed to advertise flexibility and collaboration within the fashionable workplace, in addition to houses and social areas. Its designers, Jonas Pettersson and John Löfgren (who based Type US With Love in 2005), conceived a system manufactured from simply reconfigurable particular person modules.

‘Static storage is an idea of the previous, say the designers. ‘“Heart Heart” challenges this concept by providing an answer that evolves with the person’s wants, each now and sooner or later. With “Heart Heart”, inside designers have the liberty to customize areas and create configurations that go well with their clients’ wants and needs.’

Manufactured in Sweden utilizing exact industrial welding and bending methods, the person modules work vertically and horizontally, permitting the system to be mixed and expanded into a variety of inventive options. They’re made completely from skinny sheet metallic perforated in a grid sample, giving the design an industrial really feel.

‘Our purpose is to supply a system for the unimaginable,’ say Löfgren and Pettersson. ‘We need to empower inside designers and inventive specifiers to essentially unleash their creativity and discover the infinite potentialities of this storage answer. Whether or not it is organising an workplace, a house or a public house, this method provides the pliability and adaptableness wanted to fulfill the calls for of contemporary life.’

Obtainable in eight colors (Ultramarine, Gentle Gray, Chrome Inexperienced, Sulphur Yellow, Oyster White, Pompeii Purple, and Black and White) and 6 sizes, the modules are complemented by a variety of matching equipment, together with castors, trays, handles and hooks.

In fact the Swedish model has excessive hopes for this new assortment, and goals for it to have the identical attain as its illustrious predecessor: ‘Launching “Heart Heart” opens a brand new and thrilling chapter for us,’ says String Furnishings CMO Bo Hellberg. ‘It’s a system we imagine units an actual benchmark, with a really fashionable strategy to modularity mixed with a daring perspective in design. Our ambition is that it will turn out to be a contemporary basic.’