cell by string furniture

it has been called ’innovative’, ’the world’s most beautiful bookshelf’ and ’a pearl drape for books’. but cell, an entirely swedish product designed by peter cohen, is also a high-tech shelving system, brilliant in its design and use of space. 

cell looks incredibly light with its paper-thin shelves and sleek appearance. people tend to ask “what can you put on it” – the answer is that you can fill it with books, as many books you can fit, without any hint of bowing in its thin laminated high strength steel shelves. cell is an open shelving system. starting from a set of basic combinations, a number of configurations and extensions are possible.

cell is an open shelving system. starting from a set of basic combinations, a number of configurations and extensions are possible. basic sections have a width of 52 cm, while extensions measure 50 cm. cell is produced in 5 standard heights : 220, 190, 175, 110 and 80 cm.