The String System has defined wall-mounted shelving for seventy years: a pair of slim wire side panels, shelves and cabinets hooked between them. It's deliberately light – visually almost a sketch on the wall. KUUDU starts from a different brief: oak (FSC European) on a 75 cm section grid, where the shelf reads as a calm, present piece of furniture rather than a graphic element.
The wall-mounted KUUDU shown here is three sections wide, three levels tall – a wider, lower silhouette than String tends to encourage. Each section can carry a different level pattern, and shift mode allows staggered levels for a more rhythmic wall. Both systems are modular; KUUDU emphasises material presence over visual lightness.
String is right where you want the shelf to disappear into the wall composition. KUUDU is right where you want the shelf to be the wall composition – to anchor the room rather than recede from it. Both are demountable and expandable. If you're choosing between them, the question is mostly: do you want metal-and-wire, or oak?
