The Vinyl Frontier: USM and Symbol ship tailor-made audio furnishings with excessive constancy

Renowned Swiss furnishings model USM has introduced an upcoming collaboration with vinyl storage and audio furnishings specialist Symbol, that includes 4 storage collections. Utilising USM’s iconic modular elements, chosen from the corporate’s broad catalogue of customized components by the Symbol staff, the brand new items incorporate traditional parts of USM’s design aesthetic with Symbol’s honed strategy to showcasing and storing vinyl. As Symbol’s managing director Walker Tovin places it: ‘We’re enjoying of their [USM’s] sandbox, uncovering particular items… iterating and exploring, and discovering patterns to create new designs.’

USM x Symbol Vinyl Storage Cabinet: design-led audio furnishings

Ranging from vinyl storage cupboards (to document stands and crates, the collections can be found in quite a lot of sizes; with colors within the traditional USM palette, the choice to combine dimmable lighting, and tailor-made compartments to deal with all method of audio gear, together with Sonos audio system, amplifiers, and document gamers.

The USM x Symbol Vinyl Storage Cabinet additionally has the power to hyperlink with different items, fostering clients’ appetites as their love of vinyl, and their document assortment, expands (the rising vinyl revival is underlined by the current launch of Montana’s ‘Spin’ vibrant vinyl storage cupboards).

Setting a global benchmark for workplace and residential furnishings with the Fritz Haller collaboration within the Nineteen Sixties, USM’s modular design has traditionally enabled purchasers to customize their furnishings from a big selection of part components, boasting a timelessness and flexibility that rapidly grew to become the model’s hallmark.

Allowing furnishings to be formed to suit quite a lot of areas and features, this modular considering is on the coronary heart of the brand new collaboration, having pushed Tovin and the Symbol staff in a singular artistic path: ‘USM’s elements work in each conceivable surroundings, from retail to residential, from workplace areas to a loft in Paris, or a farmhouse in upstate New York… a dream come true for individuals who love these items.’

Symbol’s involvement is a pure evolution of this adaptive design; bringing it to the audio space for storing to please each hardcore vinyl fanatics and people merely on the lookout for a technique to showcase their favorite records. Interpreting the USM catalogue with a robust imaginative and prescient grew to become a necessary a part of the method, shaping the ultimate product with this polyvalence of makes use of in thoughts.

‘We’ve received record-store flip bins, we have got swivel bins that pull down, we have got file drawers that pull out and all the things… a mixture of purposes that work for folks with big collections and one thing extra becoming for individuals who need to show the art work.’

The key factor to Symbol’s philosophy is the need to bridge the hole between conventional areas for vinyl storage and wider interiors, incorporating an enthusiasm for records into the house at giant. This ethos underscores your entire collaboration, deploying USM’s confirmed sense for adaptability with a ardour for audio furnishings nurtured over Symbol’s personal budding historical past.

Together, they hope to provide designs that may have a permanent impression, with items which were made to final. In Tovin’s phrases: ‘Timeless design is simply good design; they’re type of interchangeable. USM has confirmed that they’re timeless as a result of they’ve had the time to do it, and we hope that we’ll have that chance too.’

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