Smith Multipurpose Storage, Brown designed by Jonathan Olivares - A multipurpose storage, hanging file with wheels and seat. Made of brown painted metal sheet top and base.
Varnished and painted sheet metal stools on casters with ample storage, this useful unit can be hung off the edge of a table or shelf, stacked, and moved from one room to the next.
About the Designer:
Jonathan Olivares was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1981. After studying literature and philosophy at the New School University in New York City, he studied industrial design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. During this time Olivares apprenticed under Stephen Burks at Readymade Projects in New York City and later at Maison Martin Margiela in Paris. In 2005, after graduating from Pratt Institute, he presented New Plans for the Home, a series of plan diagram posters that facilitate the construction of wall mounted furniture.
Following an eight month apprenticeship in Konstantin Grcic's office in Munich, Olivares returned to Boston in 2006 and started his own design office, Jonathan Olivares Design Research. For the New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair in 2006 he conducted a research project and installation, Studies for New Posture, which consisted of eight steel furniture study models that explore emerging domestic needs. Currently he is developing products for Danese Milano, the first of which, Smith, a multi-purpose home/office cart, was released at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in 2007. Olivares has written articles for Domus and Abitare, the most recent of which is 'Extreme Design', an exploration of deployable beds developed by American climbers in Yosemite since the 1960's, published in the March 2008 issue of Abitare.