The Zollverein Bottle-Cabinets is a quick and clever little reuse project made by Rogier Martens for the Gast Gastgeber-Store pop-up installation in Essen, Germany earlier this fall. The shelving units rely on the counterforces between a strap in tension and used glass bottles in compression. The resulting structure has a casual and open feeling, slightly tenuous, but without the possibility of actually toppling over.
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