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Steffen Kehrle's Toothy Adjustable Shelves

By Rain Noe - February 24, 2015

in Furniture Design

Steffen Kehrle is the Munich-based designer whose beautiful TRAY we showed you earlier. He's got some other tricks up his sleeve when it comes to cutting wood at angles—peep his pretty, adjustable ANYTHING shelves:

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Looking at it closely, the grooves do not appear to be routed into the side slabs, which look veneered to me; I can swear I see end-grain on the triangles in this shot…

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…which would indicate someone cut a ton of those angled pieces and painstakingly glued them all in place. More labor-intensive than drilling holes for shelf pins, but I like the final effect.

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Another nice touch is his usage of contrasting color for the back panel. In the designer's words,

The back panel stabilizes the rack but moreover works as a stylistic element that accentuates the spaces between the shelves and makes them small individual rooms.

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This is no mere concept, by the way; The Anything shelves are produced by Italian manufacturer L'abbate.

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Scott Brown

9 years ago

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top & side panels are rather obviously veneered - the top piece shows that clearly enough in the beveled corner detail. nobody cut and glued all the angled pieces - it's a solid panel (maybe solid wood, hence the hint of visible end-grain) with the V-notches milled into it (not through it), then laminated to whatever the veneered substrate is. veneer or banding on the beveled front edges covers the glue line or joint between the side panel substrate and the notched inner panel. Piece-o-cake!

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Pedro F.

9 years ago

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Looks great. It's creative too. I don't believe in its resistance in the long run. In theory, the angularity of it should solve all weight issues. But it still seems fragile with those small dents.

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