Radical Habitat

Type | Interior design - furniture    Year | 2026    Project site | Rotterdam, Netherlands

Client | Private client

The shelf is a hybrid of new and reused materials, each carrying a different history into the same structure. Its frame is built from newly cut aluminium tube profiles, exposed and unapologetic, while the cladding and shelving are made from salvaged stainless steel and reclaimed ceramic tiles, each panel carrying its own scratches, patina, and prior life.

The design leaves its construction visible: exposed joints and bolts, opening side panels, a modular grid that can be read like a diagram of its own assembly. At its centre, a single arch interrupts the geometry, its proportions drawn from medieval altarpieces, turning a storage system into something closer to a shrine.

The shelf comes with a set of custom-made concrete and aluminium objects designed to live inside it: candle holders, incense holders, an ashtray, book holders, each object as considered as the structure that holds it.

New and reused. Structural and ceremonial. A piece of furniture built like architecture, and used like an altar.