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 group, 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 taking part in 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 a wide range 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 flexibility 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 latest 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 Sixties, USM’s modular design has traditionally enabled purchasers to customize their furnishings from a wide selection of part components, boasting a timelessness and flexibility that shortly turned the model’s hallmark.

Allowing furnishings to be formed to suit a wide range of areas and features, this modular considering is on the coronary heart of the brand new collaboration, having pushed Tovin and the Symbol group in a singular artistic route: ‘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 lovers and people merely in search of a solution to showcase their favorite records. Interpreting the USM catalogue with a robust imaginative and prescient turned an important 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 the whole lot… a mixture of purposes that work for folks with big collections and one thing extra becoming for many who need to show the paintings.’

The key ingredient 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 massive. This ethos underscores all the 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 kind 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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