The story behind

Ø GRAVITY is a self supporting bookshelf, allowing for free positioning and multi-directional stability, playing in an apparent absence of gravity.

It is a tension structure offering maximum structural integrity and fundamental clarity in the use of materials. It aims to overcome the conventions of a static orthogonal balance.

With its apparently precarious balance, it is a refined juxtaposition between visual instability and actual stability, it is a dizzying challenge to the force of gravity, the expression of a profound aspiration to a transparent, metaphysical lightness.

The system joins the wood sides and tempered glass shelves through simple and totally reversible dry joints, which are kept in place by the mere tension of a metallic cable inserted within grooves running along the sides in such a way that it constitutes a brace in the shape of Saint Andrew’s Cross, which in itself guarantees the static multi-directional balance of the entire structure.

Design Week 2023 at SUPERSTUDIO

Dimensions

272 x 38 x H 222 cm

Materials

Sapele Mahogany Wood, Tempered Glass, Heat Treated Stainless Steel