minimalist birch plywood wall shelf, CNC-cut furniture design
  • Location: Opava
  • Client: Own project Mixmag
  • Phase: prototypes completed

Birch Plywood Furniture

Shelf and Growing Desk

An independent project of simple furniture, accessories and toys for children's rooms. Eight prototypes were produced with these requirements: minimalism as timelessness, growing with children visually and ergonomically, efficient board thickness to minimise waste, and non-metal slide-in joints that allow repeated assembly and disassembly. Each part is a precisely CNC-machined piece of birch plywood. The parts connect by sliding into one another without additional metal fasteners or components.

Mixmag birch plywood furniture prototypes and CNC-cut parts
Mixmag logo and graphic design
assembly of a minimalist birch plywood wall shelf


Prototype 01: Simple wall shelf
Timeless, minimal and grown-up.
Assembly by simple slide-in joints, without metal fasteners.
Production can be easily modified to change the number and size of individual compartments.
Ideal depth for displaying toys and books.
Blue pigment tint in oil-wax finish.

children's room interior design with Mixmag wall shelf and bunk bed
children's room interior design with minimalist wall shelf
Mixmag wall shelf with stops for displaying books and graphics

Prototype 02: Large/small desk
The growing height allows two levels, for children and adults. By adding transverse base pieces, the tabletop rises to a standard desk height, so the table can keep serving regardless of the children's age.
A large 1.8 m long free work surface is the basis for a great table for playing, making and school preparation. Storage for everything needed is designed under the tabletop.

growing desk and children's room furniture design
simple growing desk assembled from birch plywood parts


Assembling the table without a single metal component, only by sliding the plywood parts together and, if needed, using a rubber mallet, takes just a few minutes.
The reward is, among other things, the beautiful grain of the 12 mm birch plywood board finished with white oil.

Mixmag growing desk furniture design
drawing of the Mixmag plywood desk top
growing desk with storage surface under the tabletop
detail of the growing desk with slide-in plywood parts
assembly of the growing desk from slide-in birch plywood parts