Traveling Storage: Tassenkast by Lotty Lindeman

Toeing the line between interior fixture and fashion, Dutch designer Lotty Lindeman's new wall cupboard creation is a intriguing take on modular storage...

Each suitcase is custom constructed from padded fabric and wooden side panels. More on the concept from the artist:

"Interiors nowadays are presented like stills, but in fact there is a lot of mobility of objects, moving around by human needs. Tassenkast blends traveling storage with furniture. A collection of suitcases get status as a cupboard in the interior, playing on the edge of what we perceive as a fashion item and what we perceive as an interior product."

What do you think about this whimsical creation? As teachers we could totally imagine plucking a smaller "school suitcase" off the wall to go to class and hanging it back up once home — it would certainly be a wonderful remedy to our constant packing and re-packing twice a week!

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this would be wonderful for crafts... i often use a much less lovely 'many tote bags on hooks in the closet' in a similar way. these are great--wood and fabric aesthetic plus the backpack reference just seems fun.

posted by evenkhoward on September 21st 2009 at 8:31pm
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Sorry, these don't 'read' as suitcases to me at all -- more like messenger bags or, as evenkristen notes, backpacks. And I don't find them attractive or practical at all.

posted by mirandabee on September 22nd 2009 at 4:44am
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they're bags? you'd never know it. they look like "crafty" boxes...and not in a good way.

posted by davidsl on September 22nd 2009 at 11:13am
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ooooh, I love it. gives me a great idea if I ever have the time, money, and house to play with!

posted by itesser on September 22nd 2009 at 10:51pm
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I really like this idea since I move nearly every year. It reminds me of the bookcase in "Nomadic Furniture," where the shelves are boxes that you take apart from each other and ship your books in them. Packing books is hard work!

posted by matchbookhymnal on September 23rd 2009 at 7:07am
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