At first glance, these shelves look like they have been designed for the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Kubo by Karim Rashid are artistically designed shelves. What looks like an ordinary shelf is given a splash of color, motives and interesting symbols and designs that puts the much needed creativity into ordinary looking shelves.

The thing is, these type of shelves received negative reviews during the Milan furniture fair 2009. The reviews suggested that the Kubo shelving inspired by fractal computer designs are a frenzy of pop colors and patterns making it great furniture items for kids rooms and not for the stressed out urban professionals that get a headache looking at these numerous blasts of colors and dizzying shapes. Well, we say these furniture designs are for the brave hearted. Those that dare to be different and to go with different concepts of interior design in their homes with the end results being a truly personalized and customized venue that proudly showcases the owner’s tastes and creativity.

These shelves add the much needed liveliness that are normally absent in cosmopolitan and urban decorations seen in apartments where everything employs the same design concept of clean and sleek. These shelves speak boldness and life, which reminds its owners that no matter how dull life can be, it’s up to you to make it interesting. It breaks free from the mundane routines of life, from work and gives a fresh outlook into things, fills you eyes with color and encourages you to have fun with the people around you and to take risks, to try different things and empowers you to wake up with a smile on your face.
A normal white washed wall can’t do this. It makes you wake up to nothingness and emptiness, makes like even more boring than it already is.

These shelves serve an inspiration to you and to those at home. And that is what Karim Rashid, a designer that seeks to change the aesthetics of product design, had in mind when this furniture was created. Karim Rashid, born in Cairo and raised in Canada advocates a design philosophy that seeks to be both functional and holistic, taking elegant shapes and effectively and ergonomically turning it to meet the requirements of an object’s purpose.