Distinctly affirming their modernity, the peculiar materials of Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, wood and Vienna straw, design with NYNY UNIT a piece of furniture with a strong emotional dimension, capable of imposing itself in space as the absolute protagonist of the scene.
A project by storagemilano with a multifaceted personality, in an interdependence of design, architecture, art that draws inspiration both from the typical stylistic features of postmodernism and from the graphic playfulness of the eighties in the irregular perspective development, also emphasized by the intense chromatic choice.
The reference to architecture is also declared in the name NYNY, like New York, New York. The play of volumes of NYNY UNIT, in fact, wants to be a tribute to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Nolita, whose building develops the archetypal forms of the Babylonian ziggurats.
With a totemic soul, NYNY UNIT is defined in the asymmetrical overlapping of suspended geometric volumes thanks to the support of the metal wall structure. Each volume corresponds to a specific function: underneath, two drawers, one high and one low; above, two compartments with doors, the lower one can also be used as a desk.