String Furniture

String Furniture is a Swedish company that has been making storage and shelving since 1949, the year the architects Nisse and Kajsa Strinning won an international design competition with a shelf built from three simple elements: wire panels, side panels and shelves. That design became the String System, still made with the same basic construction as the original sketch, and later joined by String Pocket, Museum, Works, Relief, Center Center and Pira.

Everything is designed and made in Sweden, from the company’s base in Limhamn outside Malmö, and String is sold in 48 countries. The collection stays deliberately narrow: flexible, repairable pieces in metal and wood, meant to be built up over time and to outlast any passing phase of the room they sit in.