For those of you familiar with the Uten.Silo, the design classic designed by Dorothee Becker in the 1960s, it’s not hard to see where the Urbio took its inspiration.
A modular, magnetic wall installation that you can configure to suit your space, it’s suitable for plants – create a mini living wall, desk tidies – clear your desk by going vertical, or in the kitchen for wooden spoons, bits of string and other useful paraphernalia. And let’s not forget how useful it could be in a bathroom.
You simply buy the wallplates, fix them up and then choose which containers you want and arrange them how you please. Which also allows for many happy hours of procrastination when on deadline as you frantically rearrange everything so that it’s just so. Because, of course, if you don’t do that, you will never be able to write that last line, finish that report, make the books balance. Or is that just me?
It began as a kickstarter project and and you can now buy it at John Lewis. In addition that if you go to their website at myurbio.com, there is not only a cool video showing you how to install it, but a design function which allows you to drag the pieces into position so you can decide exactly what you need for the space you have. Hours of fun – that’s almost as good a procrastination as actually playing with it when it arrives.
The back plates cost £18 and you go on from there until you fill the space or run out of money. Of course, you can always add to it as you go along.
When I get my fantasy office, or maybe even before, I am definitely having one of these and it will be a mix of plants and pencils and paper and stuff. Lots of stuff.
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