Speakers that sound as beautiful as the Sony APM-615’s deserve stands that serve to compliment them, not distract. To achieve this, a more restrained approach was taken, utilizing clean datums and intersections of the X, Y, and Z planes as the primary design language.
Fabricating complex furniture isn’t an inferior approach to furniture design, but it presents issues with pricing and replication, two important aspects of selling custom furniture. Therefore, the speaker stands became a solution to the challenges that arose from designing complimentary pieces, while also allowing for practice into a more efficient workflow.