Formwork stackable desktop storage designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin helps you bring elegant order to your papers, tools, and artifacts.
Formwork
Formwork stackable desktop storage designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin helps you bring order to your papers, tools and artefacts. With shapes and sizes that were rigorously considered to relate an intuitive sense of utility, the accessories may be stacked and combined in any way you see fit.
Balancing meticulous attention to detail with a thoughtful consideration of context, Hecht and Colin created Formwork in varying permutations, allowing some items to be kept out of view, while others remain within reach, based on aesthetic considerations or frequency of use. The sophisticated forms, material production, and colour palette indicate a level of thoughtfulness rarely brought to desktop goods. Each form is shaped in ABS plastic with a non-slip silicone base.
"Our office behaves like a good, condensed international neighbourhood, which is efficient, energetic and pleasurable."
- Sam Hecht and Kim Colin
Pencil Cup
As their book The Usefulness of Small Things attests, Hecht and Colin take
great pleasure in everyday items, and few items are more everyday than the
lowly pencil. In providing a place for these analog writing instruments, the
designers thoughtfully included a ledge for smaller items too, some certainly
digital, such as a memory stick.
Tray, Large and Small
Hecht and Colin approached the design of Formwork by examining the items that
populate our lives and our desks. In their design for the line`s small and large
trays, they gave each a cantilevered ledge to allow the placement of items in
order of usefulness - giving you ready access to some things and letting you
place others in the background.
Box, Large and Small
To account for the bulkier items that inevitably occupy surfaces at home and in
the office, Hecht and Colin created boxes with removable lids. Each lid has a
hole that accepts a removable cup. Or, the cup can be set in an indentation
inside the box and under the hole for access to the cup`s contents without
having to remove the lid.
Tissue Box
Hecht and Colin`s pragmatic design for a Tissue Box ensures that Formwork
meets all the requirements of the modern desk, which in their estimation is "an
amalgamation of not just the office, but also the kitchen, the workshop and
the bathroom".
Paper Tray
With so much emphasis on the digital, it is surprising how much paper still
clutters desktops, kitchen counters and workshops. Acknowledging that paper
will always be with us, Hecht and Colin created Paper Trays that stand alone,
and stack with other trays or Formwork elements. A gently sloped lip makes
picking up the pieces easy.
