Given that we’re on the cusp of the year’s busiest air travel day, when I hear the term “Air Cabin,” I naturally think of atmospherically pressurized capsules packed to the brim with the usual assortment of eager and reluctant Thanksgiving travelers. That—and the prospect of a full-body security pat down—awaits… Unless, of course, you’re referring to Kinzo’s latest line of contract furnishings. The Air Collection breaks the traditional mold of contract offerings—“magically functional in its operation… aerodynamic origami, folded and monolithically chiseled, Kinzo Air appears to defy gravity, but holds the weight of the working world with effortless ease.” Would that airline travel were so ethereal, or even as smooth and efficient as the Air Cabin—a file storage container that contributes mightily to “holding the weight of the working world.”

Air Cabin. Designed by Kinzo.

Several weeks back I drew your attention to the persistence of paper at the dawn of the so-called “paperless age.” A hard fact that makes products like ELF by Kardex Remstar indispensable. Air Cabin owes up to this reality as well, yet, in contrast to ELF’s behemoth storage system, Air Cabin is for smaller environs. At 63” long x 47” tall x 17” deep, the sideboard with dual-sliding doors accommodates multiple 54 ring binders, making it a nice synthesis of functionality and scintillating, sculptural style. Like other products in the Air Collection, Air Cabin features an intriguing angular profile. The blend of hard edges and the long, smooth expanse of blinding white MDF makes for a singular aesthetic—a novel vocalization, if you will, in the contract lexicon. Of Course, Air appears so lithe and aerodynamic, one suspects it never makes a sound. I surmise that even the Air Cabin’s mitered sliding doors are as soundless as outer space.