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Mark van der Gronden's Storage Furniture from Repurposed Industrial Crates

By Rain Noe - May 7, 2012

in Object Culture | Furniture Design | Sustainable Design

We first spotted designer Mark van der Gronden's Krattenkast ("crate cabinet") storage units at last year's Milan show, and now we're pleased to see they come, like the crates they contain, in all shapes and sizes.

Dutch contract furniture manufacturer Lensvelt produces the steel frames in a variety of shapes, each filled with repurposed plastic industrial conatiners that serves as the drawers.

The Krattenkast hits multiple sweet spots for us: It's sturdy, simple, checks the "re-purposed materials" box, and the random variety of crates they come with, depending on what the recycler had on hand that day, provides for purty splashes of color.

"Due to the indiscriminate stacking of the crates, a cabinet with three or four crates can have the same height as a pile of five," writes Lensvelt. "The colour and design of every Krattenkast is unique, because the collection of the crates varies continuously and there also seems to be an endless number of different models of crates."

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Matt

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Have you seen the price!... I'm from the UK and it took me a while to realise that the point is the thousand separator. If they are "repurposed" crates and the design has been established as not original, or not unique to be more precise - how can you justify this cost. These are being sold as pieces of art rather can commercial products.
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Sebastian Valencia

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dont like it, i think this one have more identity, just my opinion

http://mauricioarruda.net/pt/?p=29
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GG

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I have seen exactly the same design in 2006 on a show, 2 years old then.
http://www.christianehoegner.com/objects/one-for-all
And at the time I remembered to have seen it by yet another designer earlier. Who really pioneered this?
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tooma

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I thikn this is one of those "designs" you just cant "own", since it uses previously used and recycled products. In other words, anyone can do this. Sweet concept nevertheless!
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