Graduate

Bookcase

Jean Nouvel, 2003

Graduate is an admirable suspended structure consisting of a single unit anchored to a wall or to the ceiling. Slender steel rods support the adjustable wood and aluminium shelves, which seem to float in mid-air thanks to invisible mechanisms. It has a capacity load of 125 kg, evenly distributed per linear metre. Lightness and transparency in a volume made up of air.

Design Jean Nouvel, 2003

"lt is a sort of backwards procedure, I started from the concept of suspension and I thought of the thinnest possible tie-rods, I reduced the support planes to a minimum, enhancing the objects' presence"

(Jean Nouvel)

Awards

2004 ADI Index
2006 Design Award of The Federal Republic of Germany (Design Preis)
2006 Red Dot Design Recommendation

Design

Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel was born in 1945 in Fumel, France. His approach to design comes from a need to create objects for his own architectures. This approach created the Less table which was produced by Molteni&C. for the headquarters of the Cartier Foundation. The Ateliers Jean Nouvel design activities reflect a desire to develop an "architectural design."

Complete biography

“The elementarity I seek has nothing to do with minimalism. Even when it goes in for a bare minimum of material, design is no less creative”

Jean Nouvel