Freestanding Bookshelf / Balmond Studio

I designed this freestanding bookshelf as part of Balmond’s Studio new furniture collection. Using the prime number sequence invented by Cecil Balmond as a reference, I wanted to create a piece of furniture which would embrace the company vision and its radical design approach. The structure of the bookshelf is the extrusion of the prime number sequence itself. I started by tilting the sequence by 45° degrees around its X-axis so that it would still be recognisable from afar. I then projected the points of the tilted segment onto the ground, creating the vertical body of the bookshelf. The anodized aluminium structure is alternated with glass panels which allow the sunlight to pass through, whereas the horizontal supports are made of thin golden plated carbon fibre panels. Each of these golden panels has a different geometry that creates several cuts and openings for displaying books and other objects. The bookshelf is still in development and it is likely to be manufactured in the next two years.