This morning I passed the Bulthaup showroom near Core77's offices, and saw something bizarre in the windows. It looked like a butcher-block table, except the top was not level; it was carved into precisely angled troughs. Nested within the troughs were randomly-located triangular blocks of steel. While I couldn't get a good cameraphone photo through the glass (the showroom was closed) I pulled the press image, above, when I got home. That's exactly what I saw.
So what the heck is it? Bulthaup, the premium kitchen manufacturer whose work we previously drooled over here, has released a redesigned drawer system based on those troughs and dividers.
I've tried to winnow their florid description of the system, which reads like a term paper, down to a more manageable description of how it works and what the design thinking was:
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