Tag: Design

Don’t Make Me Bend!

This is a 4-drawer bureau that I found in my hotel room.
It’s simple, clean, useful, and look! No handles!
Seen from the side, you can see that in order to open each drawer, you insert your fingers behind either the top or the bottom of each drawer, and pull.

But what about the others? For each one, the top edge is one drawer-height closer to me, and I’d rather open it from the top.

So here’s my question: They obviously knew that putting the finger grip on the bottom of the lowest drawer was a bad idea, so they put it on the top. And putting it on the bottom of the highest drawer makes sense to me.

Or perhaps the two middle drawers might have top AND bottom grips.

But why make me bend more than I have to?