Robot Shelf (Price available on request)

Dimensions 166 x 51 x 23 cm

In this sculptural shelf design, Kobayashi combines the robotic and the human, the male and the female, the dead and the living and home storage and artful crafts. Kobayashi’s core idea is that a shelf shows a lot about the personality of the owner. This thought inspired him to create a shelf that has its own persona. There are all features of a human body from head to toes, where sometimes we can see a robotic expression and other times we see a stylised human character in a combination of line drawing and volumetric shapes. The expression changes with the angle from which the shelf is viewed.

The shelf is hand-made from red cedar that Kobayashi sanded to a smooth touch and left the wood untreated for a natural feel. The shelf was roughly outlined and then designed while working on the wooden panels. Features like the face, breasts, penis and hands are detailed like an artist would work on a sculpture.

*Price: Available on request (shop@riokobayashi.com)
Production Lead time: max 4 weeks