Sausalito, California, USA
Inspired from the juxtaposition of geometric pill shapes and circles, the Pill desk by Deap Design, created by Anna-Pia Slothower is ideal for open space interiors, has a bold silhouette that allows everyone be creative, have a notebook and pencil in your hand.
The idea was to replace the typical construction of drawers sliding within a box. Instead, the drawers become the outside form, pivoting around an interior frame.
The Pill desk has recently won a 2024 Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Global Design News.
The four round drawers of the desk turn outward around a pivot point at the front of each base.
They close with a magnet hidden at the back of the drawer and open with a tap of the knee from the inside.
The desk top has a metal-lined cut-out for a cable (for a laptop or lamp), and can also receive a custom LED desk lamp in painted or brushed aluminum.
A bendable version of high-grade plywood was the seed that started the idea for the Pill collection.
It allowed for the pill shaped and round drawers to be realized in an economical way, and without interior structures.
Both pieces (there is also dresser) have been built in hardwood as fully functioning prototypes.
Project: Pill Desk
Designers: Deap Design LLC.
Lead Designer: Anna-Pia Slothower
Manufacturer: Deap Design LLC.
