Inside Out - Staple Console

The Staple Console is an aluminium shelving console by Wendy Andreu, built on the Staple Series construction logic: interlocking sheets of metal, folded and welded into a continuous structure.

The form is asymmetric. Bent silver-grey metal sheets create an arrangement of open shelves and a central closed compartment that shifts the visual balance off-centre. The polished metallic surface highlights the continuous fold, each plane flowing into the next without visible joints at the transitions. The overall proportions are architectural and precise; this is a console that organises space by presence as much as by storage.

In the Staple Series, each sheet is first folded to shape and then welded at the connections, producing a structure that reads as one continuous form rather than an assembly of parts. The technique is the same aluminium handled differently: where the Double Pyramid uses flat laser-cut panels, the Staple pieces rely on fold and weld.

Part of Inside Out, the Staple Console sits within a collection that makes construction method its defining aesthetic. Wendy Andreu, AD 100 France 2024, developed this work from her Paris XIX studio through a sustained investigation into what aluminium can become when the fabrication process is fully exposed.