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Shelfium 多機能家具 by Stanislav Melis and Jozef Michalko

Shelfium 多機能家具 by Stanislav Melis and Jozef Michalko is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.


銅家具· 2024

Shelfium 多機能家具

by Stanislav Melis and Jozef Michalko

Client: Shelfium

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家具 Category

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The Design

About Shelfium 多機能家具

Shelfiumは、多様な棚ユニットやカスタム家具をユニークなデザインで創造することを可能にするツールです。あらゆる素材との組み合わせが可能で、特に引き出しなどの様々な要素を統合することに優れています。その独自性はリサイクルとアップサイクルにあり、ユーザーはリサイクル素材を用いた家具から非常に高級な組み立て品まで、それぞれの個性や好みに応じて創作することができます。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Shelfium 多機能家具は、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Shelfium 多機能家具は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Shelfium 多機能家具は、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Shelfium is a tool that allows you to create a wide range of shelving units and custom furniture in unique designs. Shelfium can be combined with any material and is particularly good at combining various elements (e.g., drawers). Its uniqueness lies in recycling and upcycling, so you can create furniture made from recycled materials or even a very luxurious assembly. It's up to you and your personality and preferences.
Dimensions & Packaging
Shelfium is made by CNC milling solid oak, which is treated with hard wax oil. The basic Shelfium has a cross-section of 30 x 20 mm and lengths of 400, 520, and 640 mm. The stainless steel bar elements have lengths of 90,180,270 and 360 mm and are joined together to form the final length. Their surface is unified by sandblasting or by additional metallic coating. Standard shelf parts are made of toughened glass, solid wood, or chipboard. Plexiglas, MDF, or PETfelt can be used as side parts.
Tags
tool, furniture, shelves, clip, wood, modular, creative
Production Technology
The elementary principle is to create a spatial structure using a Shelfium, which connects the bar element to the shelf. You can freely enclose the structure in this way by adding side/rear panels and sliding doors.
Design Challenge
The most challenging part was the simplification of the form to the minimum necessary, to ensure "rigidity" while maintaining maximum simplicity and using the smallest possible volume of different materials. Secondly, to test the combination of different types of joints.
Research
Shelfium is a set-up. It is the result of a search for a tool that is modular not only in space but also in time and at the same time can change its character while maintaining its DNA.
Modularity is not only understood as plug and play but it is extended by the individuality of the user.

Basic principles:
use as little material as possible
use the strengths of the materials used
create an open system
Inspiration
The idea originated from the need to create storage space from available materials and items. However, it was necessary to invent an element that would unite everything into one object. This element became "Shelfium." It is primarily designed for the creation of storage spaces such as libraries, shelves, lowboards, and so on. However, with a touch of imagination and creativity (an open mind), it can transform into a coat rack, room divider, flower stand, and many other things.
Project Duration
The initial idea was conceived in 2018, but the actual development of the project did not begin until 2021 and lasted for approximately another 3 years. The project was developed in Bratislava in cooperation with local suppliers.
Operation Flow
Shelfium offers different approaches:
- You can buy a ready-made kit that is made from recyclable materials as much as possible, with all parts being separately purchasable and repairable.
- You can buy Shelfium separately, or you can buy individual parts and have the other parts made by local suppliers, or you can alternate by recycling and upcycling from your existing sources, according to the principles outlined above.

Everyone can decide how big their environmental and social impact will be.
Patents
Trademark SHELFIUM 2022 melismichalko.sk s. r. o.
Copyright design belong to melismichalko.sk s. r. o., 2021
Team Members
Designer: Stanislav Meliš
Designer: Jozef Michalko
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Boris Németh, 2023
Image #2: Photographer Katarína Šendulová Bako 2021
Image #3: Photographer Boris Németh, 2023
Image #4: Photographer Katarína Šendulová Bako 2021
Image #5: Photographer Boris Németh, 2023
Video Credits: Slovak Design Center

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