Vintage Richard Clack for Ikea 'Kantra' Plywood Console

Vintage richard clack for ikea 'kantra' plywood console. For your consideration is a rare 'kantra' console designed by richard clack in 1999 for ikea. The piece comes in a bent birch plywood finish highly reminiscent of alvar aalto's well-known plywood pieces. It features a modular design concept, meaning that the two inner shelves with cutouts can be flipped to have either a concave or a convex surface. Its versatile nature would make it a good fit for one's living, kitchen or dining area, in one's hallway, entryway, home office, study, bathroom or bedroom or even in one's workshop or studio. It can be used as a shoe rack, media console, coffee table, side or end table, as a nightstand or as shelves for books, special items or even as a plant stand. Origin: produced by ikea in sweden between 1999 and the early 2000s.