Smart Storage Solutions from Japan – Overboard or Over-Organized?

You choose:  design preference or survival technique?

Japan architect Yasuhiro Yamashita designed floor-to-ceiling storage solutions for his client, a 50-year old woman.  His name for the design?  "Cel Brick."  We call it Organized Heaven.

"Cell Brick’s other significant space-saving device is its striking checkerboard wall system, composed of bolted steel boxes interspersed with glass inserts, some of which are movable. Combining the building’s skin, structure and storage all in one, the cubbies hold stacks of dishes, small appliances and bottled condiments as well as books, clocks and plastic drawers for smaller items, completely eliminating any need for free-standing cabinets and filling the house with a patchwork of quotidian objects."

Photo courtesy of Reinhard Hunger of the New York Times Style Magazine.