'CUTLINE' by Alessandro Busana for Smooth Plane

storage cabinets

Alessandro Busana graduated in industrial design in 1999 from Scuola Italiana Design, and went on to found hOle designstudio”, a research and concept development agency that creates products for companies like Normann Copenhagen, Pedrali, Roche Bobois, Plust collection, and Smooth Plane.

Smooth Plane, aims give wood a new identity through objects characterized by a strong aesthetic personality, rich in new functional content, and always shaped by skilled hands of craftsmen. This is the simple but essential point from which the designer Alessandro Busana and his team started for the development of “CUTLINE”, a line of furniture meant to act as an explicit gesture made to reveal what lies beneath. The furniture has a dual functional nature, a visible area and a hidden compartment allowing for differential storage of objects to display and those to conceal.