Design Secrets: Furniture

“I decided to give the face of the book unit fluidity, a sense of

three dimensions, using the same three dimensional form that I

created with the Fruitscape design for Alessi,” he says. “I shifted

the Fruitscape form from horizontal to vertical, and projected a

square grid onto this curved landscape, creating the book unit

modules,” he continues. “It’s funny that this product came from

another product. This was the starting point, and it’s something

that is very special. I never succeeded to do such kind of trans-

position before, but I think it fits very well to this product.”

The fruitscape is a “bowl,” which is actually a flat piece of pol-

ished stainless ...