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tiroir déstructuré

English translation: destructured/unstructured drawer

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French term or phrase:tiroir déstructuré
English translation:destructured/unstructured drawer
Entered by: claude-andrew

19:20 Jul 28, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Furniture / Household Appliances / Bathroom furniture catalogue
French term or phrase: tiroir déstructuré
I'm floundering - will need help on many of the items below and will post them in succession. It's the website of a bathroom furniture company. You can see the bathroom set in question here:
http://www.sanijura.fr/FR/component/virtuemart/produit/60/1/...
It's the red and white unit at the top of the page.

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largueur 160cm, miroir + applique touka, armoire de rangement équipée, table en marbre de synthèse, meuble commode portes, tiroir vertical et **tiroir déstructuré**
claude-andrew
France
Local time: 04:46
destructured/unstructured drawer
Explanation:
A destructured bed re-designed to create a new idea of rest. Dinghy meets your needs for an original and personal refuge.

http://www.chairs.ws/bedroom furniture italian_beds-37078p.h...

Here, the term ''destructured'' is used to describe the furniture style:

http://www.schmidt-kitchens.com/bathrooms.html#/details/bath...

''Refined lines and originality of destructured furniture....''

Living room with destructured shelves by Yoan Polizzi. Find more on his website

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Furniture-Designers/2900641313...

But I also found ''unstructured'':


déstructuré
, e
adj
[décor, monde, style] unstructured
[vêtement, veste] unstructured


MODERN UNSTRUCTURED BOOKSHELF 130X40X130 CM

http://www.asiaimportholland.com/index.php?action=article&ai...

Étagère déstructurée:

http://www.indoor-style.fr/etagere-destructure.htm



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Another example:

http://www.lawrens.fr/articles/Destructured_armchair.html

Fauteuil destructure
Selected response from:

Claire Nolan
Local time: 22:46
Grading comment
Thanks - not an easy one
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +2side-attached drawer
Timothy Rake
4offset drawer
B D Finch
3unconstructed drawer
pooja_chic
2destructured/unstructured drawer
Claire Nolan
1tray drawer
Bourth (X)
1unframed drawer
cc in nyc


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


49 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
side-attached drawer


Explanation:
Tough call! Photo helps. If "structuré" can have the sense of "framed" or "within a framework" this is certainly not an integral part of the unit. I don't like "non-integral" – sounds pretty lame for a drawer in a piece of furniture. This my choice of just describing it as "side-attached" or even more simply just "attached"

Timothy Rake
United States
Local time: 19:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: This gives me the idea that it might somehow be an independent drawer or as you say attached to the side. Phil: my bottom doesn't stick out on its own ...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Yes, assuming it's the one at the bottom that sticks out on its own.
12 mins
agree  Alan Douglas (X)
12 hrs
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
unconstructed drawer


Explanation:
or drawer with unconstructed design
http://gautier-rbm.co.uk/files/gautier_bebop.pdf

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In above link there is a similar context
Bibliothèques déstructurées, elles se superposent
ou se juxtaposent.
With its unconstructed design, this bookcase can be stacked vertically or arranged horizontally

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http://www.amazon.com/Sewing-Table-in-Natural-Finish/dp/B000...

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Google
I use inexpensive drawer dividers to make the space function best for my uses and appreciate the flexibility of the deep, unconstructed drawers. and see the link

pooja_chic
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Pooja, this looks fairly convincing. The biligual gautier site is a useful source.

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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
tray drawer


Explanation:
sliding board, etc.

Just wondering if it's a board that pulls out like a drawer, without having sides, front or back to "contain" things.

Same principle as those sliding keyboard thingees that glide under a desktop .... though quite what the purpose would be in a bathroom I cannot see.

Possibly the panel beneath the basin which appears to have a towel on it?

Bourth (X)
Local time: 04:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 46

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Claire Nolan: Bourth, this seems like a good explanation, but if you look at the other pictures, the yellow and grey bathroom (lichen) also has that panel/board, but the description doesn't mention the ''tiroir déstructuré''.
2 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
destructured/unstructured drawer


Explanation:
A destructured bed re-designed to create a new idea of rest. Dinghy meets your needs for an original and personal refuge.

http://www.chairs.ws/bedroom furniture italian_beds-37078p.h...

Here, the term ''destructured'' is used to describe the furniture style:

http://www.schmidt-kitchens.com/bathrooms.html#/details/bath...

''Refined lines and originality of destructured furniture....''

Living room with destructured shelves by Yoan Polizzi. Find more on his website

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Furniture-Designers/2900641313...

But I also found ''unstructured'':


déstructuré
, e
adj
[décor, monde, style] unstructured
[vêtement, veste] unstructured


MODERN UNSTRUCTURED BOOKSHELF 130X40X130 CM

http://www.asiaimportholland.com/index.php?action=article&ai...

Étagère déstructurée:

http://www.indoor-style.fr/etagere-destructure.htm



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Another example:

http://www.lawrens.fr/articles/Destructured_armchair.html

Fauteuil destructure

Claire Nolan
Local time: 22:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Thanks - not an easy one
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your research - I see now what they mean. It must refer to the drawer under the washbasin. This ties up with Pooja's interpretation.

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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
offset drawer


Explanation:
Though this would normally be used for drawers that are out of vertical alignment, I don't see why it can't be applied to this drawer, which is horizontally out of alignment.

"Atlante 3 offset drawer ensemble "


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Looking at your picture again, the drawer is out of alignment vertically to the rhs and horizontally to the top.

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Note added at 21 hrs (2011-07-29 16:21:39 GMT)
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"47-1/2"-wide desk with offset drawer"
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-zUXMV3RBaTs/s_6316003CH/BDI-Seq...


    Reference: http://www.robinsonsbeds.co.uk/Chest-of-Drawers/Atlante-ches...
B D Finch
France
Local time: 04:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 37
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
unframed drawer


Explanation:
Just a guess, based mostly on others' responses... :o

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Note added at 21 hrs (2011-07-29 17:07:06 GMT)
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Oops, I meant "frameless drawer. :o

cc in nyc
Local time: 22:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 7
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