Balka

In the hall of every dwelling there is always a receptacle where odds and ends are dumped – a bowl, drawer, tray or what not.

Things that no longer serve accumulate there: keys that open forgotten doors, half-dead batteries, buttons fallen off garments no longer worn, coins from some faraway land... all sorts of things that for some reason we don’t just chuck out.

Balka was designed to shelter these dubious treasures of every day existence: it is a console with an oak plateau the top of which is cut into a slope; objects placed on the slope slide down into a flexible pouch-drawer slung underneath. Things can be kept out of sight in this reserve indefinitely, waiting to be exhumed at any moment.

Balka
Design: Grégoire de Lafforest