A grey tower at Orgatec

At Orgatec 2016 in Cologne the collection was presented not as a furniture setup but as a tower. Chairs, cabinets, desks and screens stacked into one vertical form, the full scale version of a staged photograph by Lernert & Sander. The composition quotes Ettore Sottsass' Carlton cabinet of 1981, the manifesto of the Memphis Group, with colour blocks and diagonals, storage that refused to behave.

Where Sottsass provoked with excess, Boring takes the opposite route: it disappears. The tower followed every European standard for office furniture and had nothing else to say. Stylepark wrote that it was certainly a cost cutting measure, but one that embodied the ethos of the collection: let the certified basics be basic, so there is more space and budget for everything that is not.

No spotlights, no rotating platform, no screens. A silent grey stack in the middle of the loudest fair in the business. It was later shown at Design Museum Den Bosch. Current whereabouts unknown.