Household goods that wear their fashion influences on their sleeves

When you ask Raf Simons, the co-creative director of Prada, why he abandoned his intended career as a furniture designer for fashion, he has two words to say: “Martin Margiela” (referring to the avant-garde couturier and fellow Belgian). But when Simons returned to his furnishing roots recently to create a Shaker-inspired storage system that mounts on a wall, it hardly seemed like a step away.

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