Contemporary shelf GESPANNTES REGAL

stainless steel

The Gespanntes Regal was one of the first pieces of furniture in our collection. Today it is still looking eagerly around our salesrooms and is enjoying cult status as a seasoned veteran of New German Design. The shelf with the tightrope act They say that over time relationships lose their sense of excitement. That doesn’t apply to our relationship with the Gespanntes Regal. And Wolfgang Laubersheimer, who developed the shelf in the early 80s, is still producing the Gespanntes Regal by hand. And even signs his name on one of the shelves. The characteristic steel cable in the design classic is by no means decoration, but provides tension and stability. After all, straight is child’s play. Material Corpus: Steel 3 mm, hot-rolled, waxed Cable: Stainless steel Production Wolfgang Laubersheimer, member of the Pentagon group designed the Gespanntes Regal in the 80s as a counter movement to the dictum of good form. The use of untreated steel with visible welding points was a completely new, virtually unknown approach at the time.