In autumn 1949, Nisse and Kajsa's STRING shelf won first prize in the Bonniers library competition. Made up of blue wall panels and pine shelves, their creation beat out 194 competitors from all over Europe, the United States and even Australia. For the 75th anniversary of the String bookshelf, we produced a limited series of 1949 bookshelves with the original blue wall panels and solid pine shelves. Just like the winning 1949 model.
Meander is an organically shaped modular seating system in wood. Modules can be combined to create a variety of shapes that ensure Meander is able to adapt to the specific conditions in any given space.
The idea behind the Upper cabinet is for the top to function as its own framed surface. Upper's details include mitered corners and slightly rounded solid wood edgebanding with standing annual rings. An attractively finished back panel makes the cabinet ideal as a room divider.
The original Pira shelf designed in 1954 was as contradictory as the man who conceived it. Olle Pira (1927-2018) was a traditional master cabinet-maker who crafted cherry, maple and matured oak with age-old skills. Yet he won a place at the renowned Konstfack school of art, craft and design, the birthplace of concepts ahead of their times. And became the first Swede to win a gold medal at the Triennale in Milan in 1952.