German Patent DE29821788 Ladeado is a shelving-system of modular boxes to store up magazines and leaflets. In a competition for furniture called “perspectives 99” in Basel (Switzerland) the system won a design award because of its simple but effective connecting system. (published in Hochparterre 3/99, Swiss design magazine)

• The whole system consists of a single material: the Scandinavian plywood of birch.
• No screws only a traditional connection of a sliding dovetail holds the boxes in different combinations together.
• The assembly and disassembly of any arrangements can be made by an easy handling, so that no tool is needed.
• Both understandable and encouraging are the elements of connection.
• A long dovetail-shaped strip and its slotted counterpart make it possible to build the piece of furniture in a short time ready to use.
• The change of the two positions upright or inclined proceeds in one elegant handling.
• The inclined storing protects the magazines from the usually but very disagreeable bending.
• Young people, who need to be flexible and move often can use the boxes for transporting their stuff.

* “ladeado” (Span.: slanting, sloping, oblique)