CABINET DESIGN

PROJECT

Furniture DesignNicole Wilner - Ana García Calvo

CLIENT PROFILEFrancesca Michelazzi, Italian, 30 year old, Jewelry designer living in Milan.

Works as a freelance for a famous fashion designer as part of the complements design team. Works from home

eventually.

She orders her working materials online to her providers all around the World and very often receives catalogues

and samples. Because of her job, she needs to be updated on trends around the worls and travels very often.

Her apartment in Isola area is only 45 square meters and is divided in a living & dining area with a corner kitchen,

bathroom and bedroom.

Francesca loves contemporary art, follows fashion and prefers modern style for looks, design and decoration. She’s

used to creativeness and loves to discover new and original forms, but she’s also very practical and because of her

busy agenda appreciates functional over aesthetics for daily use tools.

She’s very organized and methodical and likes to separate work from personal life completely.

LOVES - art, fashion, travel, spending time with her friends

HATES - disorder, messed up schedulles, smog and traffic

NEEDS - tools that allow her to separate working and personal life and keep an order on her small living area

CLIENT NEEDS

WORKS FROM HOME

NEED TOOLS THAT ALLOW HER

TO SEPARATE PERSONAL LIFE

FROM WORK

VERY SMALL APARTMENT

SPACE OPTIMIZATION

OF THE FURNITURE

EASY TO FIND AND STORAGE OPTIMIZATION

Freelance: Could be adapted to several professions in

different sizes and materials depending on the target,

ie.:

● Big size in resins (for outdoors use and storage) for

gardeners, carpenters, etc. Also for the DIY market.

● Medium size in wood, resins or steel for indoor use

for artisans, tailors, etc.

TARGET MARKET

CONCEPT

To create a cabinet useful as a working space and able to store and display all the

working materials as well as the latest trends references (magazines, catalogues,

etc.)

FIRST SKETCHES

FRONTAL VIEW

STORAGE DETAIL - CATALOGUES

STORAGE DETAIL - TOOLS

STORAGE DETAIL - BEADS

FUNCTIONALITY DETAIL- WORKING TABLE

STANDARD MEASUREMENTS

STRUCTURE DETAILS

AESTHETICS

Opaque plastic/wood/steel main structure with

customizable translucent storage area available in diferent

and combinable colours.

FUNCTIONALITIES

● Organized storage for tools.

● Storage and display for beads, wire and other materials.

● Storage for trends and fashion magazines and catalogues.

● Working table with extendable platform to store materials

while working.

● The closed surface can be used as a working table.

● Extra storage at the bottom of the cabinet.

CABINET PLACEMENT

MATERIALS

MAIN STRUCTURE

TOP COVER AND DISPLAY AREA

(Low Cost)

Particleboard

Foil

ABS plastic

Acrylic paint

(Luxuryt)

Solid Walnut

Solid Oak

Translucent PMMA