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String Pocket Shelf Metal

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The String Pocket metal shelf was designed in collaboration with Swedish designers Anna von Schewen and Björn Dahlström. The metal shelf is particularly well suited for the kitchen or bathroom due to its perforated shelves: you can easily add accessories to them, such as hooks for hanging towels, oven mitts or kitchen utensils. The shelves have thin lipped edges that help keep their contents secure.

String Pocket is a compact and elegant shelf for books, collectables and other small items. Launched in 2005 by the Swedish manufacturer String, String Pocket is part of the popular collection designed by Nils Strinning in 1949. The minimalist design consists of three shelves and two ladder-like side panels that can also be combined into larger units both vertically and horizontally. String Pocket is available in an array of colours and suitable for multiple uses and spaces.

String Pocket metal only comes in White-Taupe-Neon.  Size: H50 x 60, d15cm

Material: Powder coated steel with structural lacquer. Frame material: Steel

Maximum load capacity: 25 kg evenly spread across the shelf

Nils Strinning (1917-2006) is the father of the legendary String shelving and furniture system. Nils Strinning was married to Kajsa Strinning, also a designer, who together with her husband developed the String system. The shelving was originally designed in 1949 for Bonniers Folkbibliotek (Peoples Library), Bonniers being the biggest book publisher in Scandinavia. Nils Strinning studied at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in the 1940s and developed a washing up drying rack called Elfa, which featured plastic coated metal rods. This became the starting point for the String system. In 1952 Nils and Kajsa Strinning founded String Design AB and Swedish Design AB. Together they designed a wide range of plastic objects in the 1960s and 1970s. String can be found in many Swedish homes and is a true icon of Swedish design.

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Certain things are so closely associated with a particular time that they become timeless. There is no better example of this than the string® shelving system designed by Nisse Strinning in 1949. It may seem strange that a thing so simple and unpretentious as this economical, light shelving with its minimal framing has become one of the twentieth century’s foremost design icons. But the reasons are many. It is simple and cheap to transport as a flat package. The shelves are easy to assemble. Each shelf can be quickly relocated. Shelves of different depths can be combined and the framing functions as book ends. It is robust and can be extended in any direction.

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