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Hot or Not? Redesigned Ideaco Kamui Magazine Rack

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Ideaco Kamui Magazine Rack, an update of the previous 2004 Good Design Award in Tokyo version. What do you think of the subtle, but notable, redesign?

 
 

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$46 to hold a couple magazines or newspapers???

I'd rather spend $15 for a nice basket that can hold lots more and be stashed under the end table...

posted by bepsf on June 22nd 2009 at 1:30pm
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That looks so cheap and it is totally not going to hold. You will have to center your magazine for it to not rock off the holder.

posted by souk1501 on June 22nd 2009 at 1:45pm
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I like the design, but I would never use this or any magazine rack. If I buy magazines, I read them then either discard them (recycle or give away) or (if they are "keepers" -- craft or other specialty magazines with ongoing usefulness) I put them on my book shelves.

posted by SherryBinNH on June 22nd 2009 at 1:46pm
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It's a nice looking piece... maybe that's what it should be called... "piece", that gives a whole lot of open ideas for it's use... or just as a decorative object... As a mag rag....that's another story... even the girl in the picture seems to have trouble keeping the mag in place.... enough said.

posted by manu_pty on June 22nd 2009 at 3:30pm
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The clean lines is quite nice. urban outfitters was selling these for 20 bucks I think in their clearance few months ago.

posted by HotforDesign on June 22nd 2009 at 3:30pm
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There is something interesting about this but its not a real magazine holder so much as a couple of bookends molded together.

posted by 1GH on June 22nd 2009 at 4:29pm
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HotforDesign, you're right. They were at Urban Outfitters- I actually ended up getting it for $10 about a month or so ago.

posted by meereesa on June 22nd 2009 at 5:17pm
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Just seems unnecessary to have a magazine rack at all, let alone an inefficient, unattractive one.

posted by muirwoods08 on June 22nd 2009 at 10:03pm
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