Shelving system inspired by capillaries

Dutch designer Caolijn Slottje made this capillary-inspired storage system out of recycled felt and rubber. The individual blocks can be mixed and matched Tetris-style to create a shape that fits your room.

Designer's page [via Designboom]

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Unfortunately it’s also tetris-like in that if it hits the ceiling, you die.
Dewi Morgan

Weird. I totally thought I remembered tetris blocks as being square. It was, I thought, one of the defining features.

But this… this is AWESOME! I could totally play, and win, this as a tetris game. The blobs just gloop down to the bottom. How could I not win?
- benher
  
  Maybe he meant PuyoPuyo?
jeligula

Awesome. Now I finally have space to store my amorphous sacs of protoplasm. The Dutch really get it.
- Anonymous
  
  You just don’t understand the appeal of light filtering in behind a shelf of brains
Anonymous

I think “decorative room separator” is a more accurate definition here…clearly one could hardly use call these things “shelves”.
Mitch

What a ridiculous thing. Almost everything I would want to store on shelves is rectangular and most knicknacks people want to display are designed to sit on a flat surface.
Anonymous

Shelving is sooo 2009. Don’t you know hip people are leaving their things on the floor now?
Robert

Personally, I prefer shelving systems inspired by kittens.
- Dewi Morgan
  
  Link failed: shame, I liked the sound of that!
Moriarty

What a perfect place for my book and post-it notes!
Gillagriene

Interesting concept art? Sure. A shelf? Only if it wants to be called a poorly designed one. Maybe if I had unlimited wealth and space I’d value form over function, until then…