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Holdon Chronicles
Notes from the atelier, style markers, things seen. A slow read around the detail that is the cabinet handle.
The Kallax owes its success to a grid that goes straight to the point: square, stackable cubbies that need no door or ornament. It's an object that owes everything to logic and nothing to decoration, squarely in the tradition of a Scandinavian functionalism that turned the absence of frills into a style of its own. That neutrality is a strength, but it also leaves a gap. As soon as you close the Kallax with doors or drawers, something is missing right where the hand should land: IKEA doesn't supply a handle for its inserts, and the first generic…
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