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 crew, the brand new items incorporate traditional parts of USM’s design aesthetic with Symbol’s honed method 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 file 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 tools, together with Sonos audio system, amplifiers, and file 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 file assortment, expands (the rising vinyl revival is underlined by the latest launch of Montana’s ‘Spin’ vibrant vinyl storage cupboards).

Setting a world benchmark for workplace and residential furnishings with the Fritz Haller collaboration within the Sixties, USM’s modular design has traditionally enabled shoppers to customize their furnishings from a wide selection of element 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 pondering is on the coronary heart of the brand new collaboration, having pushed Tovin and the Symbol crew in a novel inventive path: ‘USM’s elements work in each conceivable atmosphere, 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 things.’

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 solution to showcase their favorite records. Interpreting the USM catalogue with a powerful imaginative and prescient grew to become a vital a part of the method, shaping the ultimate product with this polyvalence of makes use of in thoughts.

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

The key component 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 the complete 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 supply designs that can have an everlasting affect, with items which have been 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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