If DMY Berlin 2011 had one small disappointment for us it was that Helsinki based German designer Florian Ganter wasn't there with his delightful AIR shelving system. And that despite DMY Berlin being a German design fair with a 2011 focus on Finland. Fortunately, during the festival we received Florian's latest press photos for AIR. Photos which improve greatly on our Stockholm efforts. As we wrote from Stockholm, AIR is just a wonderfully simple, multifaceted modular shelving system that
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Anyone who understands our biography will appreciate that a German who spent some time studying in Edinburgh and now lives in Helsinki will be of interest to us. But it wasn't Florian Ganter's biography that drew us to him and to his tool-free adjustable shelf system Air. Or at least not directly. Displayed on the Aalto University School of Design stand we initially thought - in a very lazy fashion - there's a nice bit of Finnish design. And then - considering it a little more seriously -
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