Find of the Day: “The Fridge to Nowhere”
The Totem Fridge is an appliance I could get used to as it seems designed to both minimize footprint and internal floor/shelf space. For someone like me who cleans their fridge a) when it starts to smell or b) when the foodstuffs stick to everything, preventing their removal, the less room to spill, the better.
I would not render it in green and yellow myself (although I’d be all in favor of green/yellow/red traffic signal motif) but I’m sure designer Stefan Buchberger has his reasons and I respect them. He is after all a design student at the University fo Applied Arts in Vienna and has done a more than respectable job giving new life to one of the home’s less sexy fixtures. I believe at his age I was giving new life to eating potato chips through a Pixy Stix while dressed as a vagrant.
Mr. Kottke has noted that the unit has…
the perhaps unfortunate side effect of reinforcing which household
members hold lower positions on the metaphorical totem pole and
therefore always need to bend down to access their unit while
higher-status members can easily get at their fruit and veg without
genuflection.
Agreed although I also wonder how the contents themsleves would regard this slight. I can imagine the fancy sodas I now keep in the bottom bin getting a big head from the promotion to Second Shelf. I’ll be sure to take that head down to size, Mr. Boylan, when next we meet.
