The origin of Strackk
How it all began
Joep Melis is the inventor of the sleek wall shelves. He grew up with a father who ran the family business Melis Gieterijen. A metal foundry where craftsmanship and quality are central. This background shaped Melis into a passionate entrepreneur with a creative mind. The Strackk shelf originated from a need. Melis was looking for a sleek floating shelf with considerable load-bearing capacity for his new home and discovered that it did not yet exist. The Strackk shelf is the result of his drive to get at an ideal solution in which aesthetics and applicability merge.
Joep developed a technically innovative carrying system that, in combination with the material used and minimalist design, leads to a thin floating shelf with an enormous carrying capacity. The Strackk floating shelf can support up to 250 kilograms per meter. That is unprecedented for such a thin shelf without shelf supports! The award of the WBSO subsidy - a subsidy to stimulate technical innovations - underlines the technical ingenuity and unique design of this wall shelf.
Launch at Design Fair in Milan
At the largest design fair in the world, the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Joep Melis presented the first prototypes of his Strackk shelf. The overwhelmingly positive reactions from interior architects, professors of technology and design and consumers stimulated his enthusiasm to bring the wall shelf to the market.