Sam Braid Design

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05Shelving

October
2023
Tall pine shelving unit with four shelves on paired battens

Travelling the country by train, the one constant from city to countryside was the battened electrification masts flanking the line. Their proportions became a shelving unit, slender legs passing through full-width shelves.

Materials
Pine
Detail
Joints hidden inside the battened legs, which double as the structure
Reference
Railway electrification masts
Engineers working on overhead railway lines
Overhead line works
Close-up of a battened steel railway mast
Battened mast