Case Study
A design project with a clear assignment: pure harmony
The starting point
Tolix Steel Design SAS from France stands for expressive designer furniture. The company has been producing its galvanized metal stools, chairs and cupboards since 1936 and has established them as true style icons. Naber GmbH is a traditional family-owned business that has made a name for itself in particular with its innovative product ideas – including ones like the mobile designer kitchen. To realize this ‘concept kitchen’, both companies pooled their expertise and injected new dynamism to this market segment with the end result of their creative work.
Highest standards of design
The concept kitchen is the very opposite of a fitted kitchen, being easy to assemble, easy to dismantle and extremely straightforward to adjust. The idea was to design a kitchen that would work anywhere, offer extreme flexibility and win people over with its harmonious appearance. It aims to please with its rounded corners and its appealing soft lines. Excellent design was also foremost when it came to selecting suitable casters. These not only had to blend seamlessly with the kitchen design, but also follow the color scheme throughout, as well as be extremely durable. These demands are essentially only met by one solution: our Linea designer caster.
Our smart mobility solution
With its precisely matching colour scheme and lines, the Linea harmonises perfectly with the Tolix and Naber concept kitchen. A crucial factor is the exact color calibration of the plastic we use.
This unifies the furniture and casters visually despite the use of different materials. Thanks to this match, the color tone of our Linea corresponds exactly to the specific white of the painted metal surfaces. To further perfect the interplay of the caster and support frame, we also focused on the formal interaction in the interface area.
Together with the designer Kilian Schindler, who created the mobile kitchen, we developed a tailor-made adapter and thus achieved a smooth transition between the components. The Linea makes no compromises either when it comes to durability. After all, this caster has to bear the weight of heavy kitchen appliances while guaranteeing high stability.
The customized Linea blends seamlessly with our design concept.
Kilian Schindler, designer
Considerable cost savings
We not only provided our customers with a suitable caster but with a complete set. This led to a significantly more efficient process. When faced with the complex challenge of creating the perfect transition from the caster to the kitchen frame, Tolix and Naber were able to rely entirely on our expertise.
By developing products jointly, our customers have saved valuable resources, time and money. The customized connecting element that we designed, in fact, provided the very solution that made such a high spec mobile kitchen possible in the first place.
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