I don’t often have emotional reactions to shelving units, but cripes — these pics from Design is a State of Mind, a new exhibition at London’s Serpentine Sackler Gallery, are just about perfect. Storage systems are often stuck in the shadow of the stuff they’re displaying, but, here, a handful of perfect specimens get the spotlight they deserve.
The show is curated by Martino Gamper, who knows a thing or two about playing with furniture typologies; a few years back, the Italian designer completed his (fantastic) designboom]