PD26 Winner

Category:	Storage Units
Location:       Lahti, Finland
Designers:     Tapio Anttila Collection Ltd. 
Lead Designer: Tapio Anttila
Manufacturer:  Tapio Anttila Collection Ltd. 
Photographs:   Courtesy of the Designers

Sopiva is a Finnish word meaning suitable, and that’s exactly what this wall shelf is. With its clean, minimalist design, it easily adapts to a variety of spaces and purposes. It can display your most beautiful kitchen tools, hold treasured objects in the living room, serve as a secret “home altar” in the bedroom, or keep essential bottles handy in the bathroom – or simply store the things you’re not quite ready to KonMari.

One of the key design goals was to make wall mounting as easy as possible for the customer, while keeping the structure discreet. The metal frame is attached to the wall first, and then the shelf boards are placed on top, hiding the mounting screws behind them.

The Sopiva shelf is part of the Tapio Anttila Collection. Its shelf boards are made from surplus veneer parts left over from the production of the brand’s popular sofa beds. Thais means the shelf has a near-zero carbon footprint. It’s a tangible example of the collection’s sustainability mindset: many products are designed with the goal of using materials as efficiently and responsibly as possible.