Hi,
this is my first post on designaddict - i've found the board searching for informations on tomado shelving systems. however, the name was just mentioned in some other posts.
i've got two different ones. first of all the pretty classic wallunits, wich are available all over the place and not too expensive - i think they fit perfectly into the kitchen.
then i've got two standing racks:
does anybody know the designers or the period, tomado shelfes have been built? are there any other collectors around?
are there books about tomado? couln't really find any literature in the web.
with best regards,
jochen
Hello Jochen, welcome on...
Hello Jochen, welcome on DesignAddict!
We have several Tomado shelves in every bedroom at home (mostly in teak and some coloured metal).
Unfortunately, there is very little documentation about the Tomado system. The company still exist but they don't seems to have any interest for the products they did in the past.
The only info I have:
Company: Tomado, Netherlands http://www.tomado.nl
Designer: D. Bekker
The wall system is from 1958 (the standing racks are probably from the early sixties).
For a while...
my father was a subcontractor to Tomado (they never produced the wooden parts themselves) and to fill production time in between more intersting contracts we used to produce these "teak" shelves. Edge banding machines did not exist so every edge was glued and covered with veneer and the excess sanded. My brothers and I have done thousands of them, on and off over the years. To make the repetitive work less boring we use to count every movement and try to do the next shelf with less. Lots of fun once you discouver that there is more to repetitive work than just repetition, and a good school for a designer that wants to experience the consequences of what he or she puts on paper. It's nice to see it back! By the way, it was never real teak...
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