What does a cabinet of the future look like?

 

In Denmark in the 1800-hundreds young men would leave their families to go and work at the farms all over the land to earn a living. When they left the family they brought all of their belongings in a cabinet called a “Karlekammerskab”. In a way this cabinet which contained all of their personal belongings was their only real home, before they eventually would settle down and have a family of their own.

 

Nowadays when moving to a new home, the cabinets are rarely brought with you. Either they are too big, too hard to disassemble or maybe the quality of the materials won’t allow you to disassemble the cabinet at all.

 

With inspiration from the “Karlekammerkskab” the Future Cabinet is designed to be taken apart and brought along with you whenever you move to a new place. The cabinet can be flat-packed and is built in quality materials allowing it to be assembled and disassembled many times. If a part should break, you can recycle the broken part and replace it with a new.

 

The cabinet is built in aluminum and plywood treated with pigmented linseed oil.

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The first pictures show a part of the cabinet in full size and the following pictures show illustrations of the full cabinet, with and without materials.