Laser-cut steel "flat" shelving you bend to suit

Piegato shelving is a flat piece of laser-cut steel that you screw into the wall with two screws, then, working by hand, you simply bend out the die-cut sections corresponding to the sorts of shelving you desire. Comes in white, black and gold and costs €129.

• it's only one piece!
• easily bend it by hand!
• just two screws needed!
• comes as a flat sheet
• high load capacity
• works as a magnetboard

Piegato is a sheet steel rack with a surprisingly high load capacity. The laser cut and powder coated sheet steel is been delivered almost completely plain, which results in a simple and cost effective transportation. The customer then bends out the required amount of shelves from the plain and mounts the hole rack with just two screws in a few minutes. Due to the enviromental friendly production, the freight size and the recyclability Piegato also holds a brilliant ecological balance.

Link (via Yanko Design)

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LSK

I’d worry that if it can be folded by hand, it has a low carrying capacity.
Dayv

Finally, I too can have an ugly, jagged piece of twisted metal sticking out of my wall!

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primalchaos

Yeah, did they do anything to dull the edges? Sheet metal that’s thin enough to bend is usually thin enough to give you a nasty cut, as anyone who works with cheap computer cases can tell you.
Cory Doctorow

LSK, it looks like you unfold cross braces as well.
Takuan

too expensive

probably can only be bent once so you better like what you set first time
Lizzle

It might be environmentally friendly, but it’s massively overpriced and looks like crap.
wolfrider

agree with TAKUAN.

How much? For a shelf that I have to still bend myself and slice my palms open in a few places?

No thanks.

A nice idea for the masses, and someone making a shitload of money off of an idea they’re trying to load off as being a good idea are two different things.

It appears here that they’re offloading the $$$ that would have had to been spent on shipping, if it was a totally constructed shelf, directly into the price and then trying to convince the consuming masses that it’s cool and mod.

again, no thanks. I’ll stick to my IKEA shelves
Suburbancowboy

“you simply bend out the die-cut sections corresponding to the sorts of shelving you desire.”

How exactly does that work? It looks to me like you have three shelves that fold out. There is no flexibility there. Unless you decide you only want to fold down one or two of the shelves, (which would be stupid)and use that other space for a really expensive magnet board. I desire 3 longer shelves that are not ugly and don’t cost as much.

I can get nice looking shelves at Ikea for 6 bucks a pop. I could buy 3 of them for 18 dollars, and then decide not to hang one or two of them.

â‚¬129? What is that like $4,000.00 US?
Moon

That is butt ugly.
Moon

Unless of course, you are going for the “Inside my Computer” look in your apartment.

:D
68flh

Looks like it would be a great deal for about $9.95.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Kaosdevice, shelving is an obsession with householders in general.

Mscot (15), this whiny, repetitious thread is your idea of “hilarious” and “top-notch”? Where in god’s name have you been hanging out, that your expectations are so low?
Halloween Jack

I think that I’ll stick to the kind that have adjustable heights to the shelves; helps with those big Chris Ware folio-sized hardcovers, dontcha know.
paulatz

Just a little trivia: Piegato means Folded in italian.
jennybean42

This offends my maker sensibilities with its ugliness, price, and bogus attempt to be “DIY”
mscot

These comments are hilarious. Top notch, Everyone!
christian nelson

The idea is great, but the shelves are hideous. There is a gorgeous brushed steel coffee table up on christolles.com that uses the same bending technique (laser-cut, not die), but looks gorgeous. Yaay for design sense!
joe

“Just a little trivia: Piegato means Folded in italian.”

Cat pie?
MarlboroTestMonkey7

Trick and threat if you ask me.
lamarlowe

If they are truly lazer cut rather than stamped, then there will be not sharp edges. But why the fuck would you even ask that question, unless you have been hurt before?

Are you like Mark Twain’s cat; who having once sat upon a hot stove, will never again sit upon a cold one?

I apologize in advance for the presumptious question; no real answer required.

God, I sound so bleeding British! Cunting fucks!
kaosdevice

Sheesh Cory, what is your obsession with shelving?
Boring Market

Great Design!