Ladrillos
Shelving Unit
2005 (designed)
2005 (designed)
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Self-assembly shelving unit consisting of five HPL (High Pressure Laminate) and ten supports of various form. The shelves are coloured white with black edges. Each shelf has a slot running through its whole length.
The supports are hollow, made from coloured rotational-moulded polyethylene, and have five different designs representing creatures or abstracted faces. Each design has its own name. The lowest, in contact with the floor, is a dark green face with spiked sides ('Sino'). Next up is a light blue head with pronounced nose and chin ('Nono'). Above is a yellow creature with a large face and arms and legs ('Nomo'). Above is pink column-like head with small round eyes and mouth ('Nik'). The topmost is a blue seated creature with its legs stretched out in front of it ('Nosi').
Each support is held in place between the shelves by means of a long steel rod, which passes through the slot in the shelf above into a hole on the top of the support. It then passes out of the bottom of the support and the slot in the shelf below where it is fastened with a wing-nut. The lowest supports which rest on the floor have a depression in the centre-bottom where the wing-nut fits.
The supports are hollow, made from coloured rotational-moulded polyethylene, and have five different designs representing creatures or abstracted faces. Each design has its own name. The lowest, in contact with the floor, is a dark green face with spiked sides ('Sino'). Next up is a light blue head with pronounced nose and chin ('Nono'). Above is a yellow creature with a large face and arms and legs ('Nomo'). Above is pink column-like head with small round eyes and mouth ('Nik'). The topmost is a blue seated creature with its legs stretched out in front of it ('Nosi').
Each support is held in place between the shelves by means of a long steel rod, which passes through the slot in the shelf above into a hole on the top of the support. It then passes out of the bottom of the support and the slot in the shelf below where it is fastened with a wing-nut. The lowest supports which rest on the floor have a depression in the centre-bottom where the wing-nut fits.
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Parts | This object consists of 35 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Rotational-moulded polyethylene, high-pressure laminate, steel |
Brief description | Ladrillos Shelving, Javier Mariscal for Magis, 2005 |
Physical description | Self-assembly shelving unit consisting of five HPL (High Pressure Laminate) and ten supports of various form. The shelves are coloured white with black edges. Each shelf has a slot running through its whole length. The supports are hollow, made from coloured rotational-moulded polyethylene, and have five different designs representing creatures or abstracted faces. Each design has its own name. The lowest, in contact with the floor, is a dark green face with spiked sides ('Sino'). Next up is a light blue head with pronounced nose and chin ('Nono'). Above is a yellow creature with a large face and arms and legs ('Nomo'). Above is pink column-like head with small round eyes and mouth ('Nik'). The topmost is a blue seated creature with its legs stretched out in front of it ('Nosi'). Each support is held in place between the shelves by means of a long steel rod, which passes through the slot in the shelf above into a hole on the top of the support. It then passes out of the bottom of the support and the slot in the shelf below where it is fastened with a wing-nut. The lowest supports which rest on the floor have a depression in the centre-bottom where the wing-nut fits. |
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Production type | Mass produced |
Credit line | Kindly given by Magis |
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Accession number | B.16-2023 |
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Record created | January 18, 2023 |
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