Shelf Library System: At 10 Years

The Shelf Library’s origins are humble. This storage system has its roots in the local hardware stores of Denmark—now nearly a century ago.

FRAMA’s system, designed by Kim Richardt in 2016, is a reinterpretation that maintains the timeless basis for the essential shelving concept at its core, with its details precisely fine-tuned and adapted.

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As Andrew Trotter, Co-Founder of Openhouse Magazine and Studio Andrew Trotter, describes, “with a timeless simplicity, the Shelf Library system works just about anywhere. With time the oak ages perfectly, becoming part of the architecture with an air of a vintage piece.”

Today, in a testament to the timeless basis for the original designs, you can see the early editions from the 1930s-1950s that inspired the FRAMA System circulating at auctions, sold, or passed down to families. This design—whether in Richardt’s precise and exacting adaptation or in an ad-hoc edition from nearly a century ago—is not something that gets thrown away.