Brussels designer Alain Gilles has designed this modular storage system for Italian brand Casamania. Called Container Sideboard, the design consists of a wooden plinth underneath variously sized boxes, drawer units, fold-out cabinets and filing trays. These elements can be reconfigured as required.
Container is a modular sideboard system. As if a regular sideboard had been split into different elements, different “containers”.
It is really a research on deconstruction and reconstruction. As if a “standard” sideboard with its different storage functionalities had been split into various elements just to be reconstructed in a different, uneven manner.
A research on the architecture of a piece in order to bring forward its construction logic. In a way, a “landing dock”, the base, and a few “containers” that can be set one on top of the other… hence its name.
The work on the structure is further highlighted by the association of different materials and finishes applied to each structural element.
By playing with different types of finishes and settings several furniture pieces with their own personalities and functions can easily be created form the same original elements. Thus, it will either be seen as more a sideboard, dresser, media storage cabinet or television stand and find its way into different rooms of the house. When several elements are combined, it behaves more like system.
Opened his own studio in 2007 in order to pursue his own dreams and develop his personal approach to product design, furniture design, art direction and interior architecture, He has since started to collaborate with several international editors.
