Sacramentan creates artistic solution to bike storage
20.05.12
Bikes are good exercise and good for the environment, but rarely do they contribute to good design at home. Simple and functional when you ride them, bikes can become a clunky burden when it comes to putting them away.
There are two basic solutions: Hide them or display them.
In small homes and cramped apartments, the first option probably never existed.
In fact, limited space in Steven Tiller's midtown apartment is one of the factors that went into a new bicycle rack design that looks so good it actually adds to the décor of a room.
Tiller, a carpenter and furniture maker who kept bumping into his bike in his cramped apartment, went to sleep one evening mulling over the problem and awoke in the middle of the night with a solution one that's getting buzz on design websites and bike blogs throughout the U.S. and beyond.
Tiller's elegant, sculptural Bike Valet came to life once he decided he wanted to store his bike and still have something nice to look at something more than a bike leaning against a wall or hanging from a hook in the ceiling.
Source: Sacramento Bee