Wolfgang Laubersheimer 'Gespanntes Regal' For Pentagon / Nils Holger Moormann

Wolfgang Laubersheimer 'Gespanntes Regal' for Pentagon / Nils Holger Moormann. Design 1984. New, current production.The Gespanntes Regal was designed in 1984 and is enjoying cult status as a seasoned veteran of New German Design.They say that over time relationships lose their sense of excitement. That doesn’t apply to our relationship with the Gespanntes Regal. And Wolfgang Laubersheimer, who developed the shelf in the early 80s, is still producing the Gespanntes Regal by hand. And even signs his name on one of the shelves. The characteristic steel cable in the design classic is by no means decoration, but provides tension and stability. After all, straight is child’s play.Each individual product has been signed by Wolfgang Laubersheimer.MaterialCorpus: Steel 3 mm, hot-rolled, waxedCable: Stainless steelProductionWolfgang Laubersheimer, member of the Pentagon group designed the Gespanntes Regal in the 80s as a counter movement to the dictum of good form. The use of untreated steel with visible welding points was a completely new, virtually unknown approach at the time.