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String IMM Cologne 2014
Designer | 14.01.2014

(smow) blog compact IMM Cologne Special: String

In 1949 the Swedish publishing house Bonniers folkbibliotek organised a competition asking for designs for a bookcase system that was easy to ship, easy to assemble and easily affordable. The background is fairly obvious: the more book storage space your average Swede has, the more books they can buy. In the late 1940s the Swedish Industrial Designer Nils Strinning had enjoyed notable success with plastic coated steel wire designs - first as crockery drying racks and subsequently as storage

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