Nothing is so insignificant that it can’t be improved! This would be a fair way to summarise the philosophy of the architect and designer Nisse Strinning. He combines the inventors demand for functionality with the aesthetes feeling for proportion and detail.
Certain things are so closely associated with a particular time that they become timeless. There is no better example of this than the String shelf 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. The shelves are easy to assemble. Each shelf can be quickly relocated. Shelves of different depths can be combined and the framing functions a book-end. It is robust and can be extended in any direction. The elegant and delicate framing characterises the shelf
String - smart, adjustable and flexible!