You spend all day staring at screens. Wouldn’t it be nice to occasionally look up and see a friendly face?
Going against the current tide of all-too-smart automated kitchens, Moscow-based designers Tanya Repina and Misha Repin go low-tech with LO-LO, a simple suite of wooden “microkitchen” units ideal for storing refreshments around the office. Each oval-shaped unit is specifically geared toward a single appliance and its requisite accessories: The coffee machine unit also has pegs to hang mugs; the microwave unit has cupboards for plates and drawers for cutlery; all of them have holes in the back for running electrical cords.
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Sketches highlight its resemblance to a birdhouse.
LO-LO, as you maybe guessed from its name, is also saccharinely twee. You can now hide the unsightly watercooler behind a pair of painted semi-circle eyes and a wooden peg or drawer-pull nose. It puts a new face on office gossip. Co-workers are still likely talking trash.
via Tanya Repina h/t Contemporist