Cady Two / Superlife
The Cady Two is a compact two-tier shelf from the Swiss studio Superlife, formed from steel sheet and wire mesh. Each tier is an open mesh platform on a folded steel frame, the two stacked into a freestanding unit roughly 35cm wide and 73cm tall. It was conceived around vinyl records, the proportions and the open mesh sized to hold and flick through an LP collection, but it works equally as open display or storage for books and objects. The mesh keeps the structure visually light and lets the contents read through it rather than boxing them away. It comes in powder-coated or zinc-plated steel, in rectangular, square and wall-mounted versions, and the units are designed to be combined into larger sets as a collection grows.
Design intent
- +Folding steel sheet into a frame with wire-mesh shelves keeps the object visually open: the contents, records or books, read through the structure rather than being hidden in a solid carcass.
- +Offering the same unit in rectangular, square and wall-mounted forms, all combinable, lets the shelf scale and reconfigure with a growing collection instead of being a fixed single piece.
Trade-offs
- -Open mesh shelving gives no protection from dust and no concealment; everything on it stays on show, which suits display more than tidying things away.
- -It is a modestly sized two-tier unit rather than deep storage; a large collection needs several combined, which is the intended path but adds cost.
The Cady Two is a compact two-tier shelf from the Swiss studio Superlife, formed from steel sheet and wire mesh. Each tier is an open mesh platform on a folded steel frame, the two stacked into a freestanding unit roughly 35cm wide and 73cm tall. It was conceived around vinyl records, the proportions and the open mesh sized to hold and flick through an LP collection, but it works equally as open display or storage for books and objects. The mesh keeps the structure visually light and lets the contents read through it rather than boxing them away. It comes in powder-coated or zinc-plated steel, in rectangular, square and wall-mounted versions, and the units are designed to be combined into larger sets as a collection grows.
Design intent
- +Folding steel sheet into a frame with wire-mesh shelves keeps the object visually open: the contents, records or books, read through the structure rather than being hidden in a solid carcass.
- +Offering the same unit in rectangular, square and wall-mounted forms, all combinable, lets the shelf scale and reconfigure with a growing collection instead of being a fixed single piece.
Trade-offs
- -Open mesh shelving gives no protection from dust and no concealment; everything on it stays on show, which suits display more than tidying things away.
- -It is a modestly sized two-tier unit rather than deep storage; a large collection needs several combined, which is the intended path but adds cost.
