Nao Tamura Designs Sculptural Ryo Bookcase for Porro Using Folded Aluminum
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Designer Nao Tamura has created the Ryo bookcase for Italian furniture brand Porro, featuring a sculptural design made from folded aluminum sheets. The open, multifunctional shelving unit uses triangular supports that create light and shadow effects, combining both lightness and solidity in its angular aesthetic.
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· 3 pulleddesigner Nao Tamura has created a faceted bookcase for Italian furniture brand Porro, with folded sheets of aluminium giving it a sculptural quality
The Ryo bookcase is an open and multifunctional shelving unit made wholly of thin sheets of aluminium, shaped into adjustable triangular supports at the edge and middle that bounce light and create areas of shadow
Triangle shapes convey both lightness and solidity, depending on the angle, points out Porro
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