Shoes Books and a Bike06. Jul2012

TAGS: timber, steel, shelf, bike

Designer Thomas Walde from POSTFOSSIL design group created this special design for the bike fans. Almost always every bike lover entrance space or hallway is the place where the bike is stored. But this place usually is small, narrow, and sometimes in strange configurations I am speaking of course about a small flat from the big cities not about a villa. Given these conditions, storing the bike along with shoes and other stuff like magazines or books will regain for you the much needed space for movement.

Organizing all these need a special piece of furniture and that's exactly what Thomas Walde propose. With its dimensions reduced to a minimum - 280 x 1975 x 1665 (l x d x h) - the

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Special piece that holds the bike in vertical position.
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Side view.
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In the case you are living in a big appartment or a villa and if you love your bike the shelf must become a central piece of furniture, almost like a shrine.
"Cycling is again enjoying increasing popularity in European cities. With a level of efficiency of about 95%, the bicycle is the most ecological way of getting around there is. The Shoes, Books and a Bike stand puts the wonder machine on a platform, frames the bicycle and gives it a deserved place of honour in the apartment. Like a trophy in a glass jar, the bicycle represents sporting activity, balance and health.
The stand itself is constructed of the simplest of materials such as pine, screws and coconut fibre, thus also making it affordable for the tight budget." - Thomas Walde
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Materials used to manufacture the shelf are timber and steel, coconut fibre.
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POSTFOSSIL is a collective of designers who create and produce objects for the home in the context of the resources problematic and in light of the postfossil era.
The use of environmentally friendly and renewable resources is only the basis; POSTFOSSIL takes it to the next level: fossil does not only stand for energy sources but also for social behaviour patterns. That’s where the initiators start.
Our work is based on three key aspects. First, as a platform and through exchange we try to conduct research on materials that assimilate a philosophy for an oilless future.
The second aspect is the production; POSTFOSSIL produces its own collection.
The decision to produce ourselves allows us not only to retain the design, but also to manage the production and distribution; another step implementing the postfossil approach.
The third aspect is to engage with the user and the transmission of the postfossil thought itself. To this end POSTFOSSIL exchanges ideas with users, leads public discourse and holds workshops.
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