Gallery Opening Package in Gallery White Lacquer

Everything needed for a small gallery furnishing a first show, plinths and a case in one order, in one delivery and one finish batch. Sized on our standard module so it groups, stacks and rearranges rather than being a set of unrelated objects.

Retail display is judged on how quickly it can be changed. A window that takes two people a whole morning to reset gets reset less often than it should, and a shop floor that has to be dismantled to change a plinth height stops being changed at all. Everything here is sized to a common module so it stacks and groups, and everything over 900mm is on concealed glides so one person can move it across a floor without lifting it or marking the boards.

Specification

• Dimensions: footprints of 300, 400 and 600mm square, heights on a 100mm ladder
• Display surface: as the individual pieces, listed below
• Construction: 18mm on braced frames, lock jointed, with concealed glides on the tall pieces
• Finish: 18mm moisture resistant MDF sprayed in a two pack polyurethane to RAL 9010, which is the white almost every gallery in the country paints its walls, sprayed as one batch
• Load rating: as the individual pieces, all rated for retail use
• Levelling: four M10 levelling feet with 20mm of travel, recessed so nothing shows and nothing catches a toe
• Security: locks fitted where the package includes a case, keyed alike
• Delivery: flat packed, two person delivery to the room, packaging taken away on the same visit if you ask when you book
• Weight: approximately 168.0 kilograms in total
• Contents: set of five graduated plinths, set of three plinths at one height, one freestanding vitrine at 600mm square, two low wide plinths, touch up paint and a batch record
• Module: everything is on the same footprint ladder so it groups
• Saving against buying the pieces separately: about 12 per cent
• Batch record kept for five years so you can add matching pieces
• One delivery slot, two person delivery to the shop floor

What you get

• Set of five graduated plinths
• Set of three plinths at one height
• One freestanding vitrine at 600mm square
• Two low wide plinths
• Touch up paint and a batch record
• Levelling feet and concealed glides where they apply
• Touch up paint in the exact batch
• One hex key and one spanner for the whole package
• A layout card with arrangements that work in the stated area

Setting it up

It arrives flat packed with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions. Fittings are cam locks into steel inserts rather than screws into board, so it comes apart for a move and goes back together square. Level it on the feet before anything goes on top, and check it with a level across both diagonals rather than along the front, because a gallery floor is almost never flat and a plinth that follows the floor is the thing everybody notices and nobody can name.

Specifying it

Buy the module rather than the piece. A shop that standardises on three plinth footprints can group them, stack them and rearrange them for years, and a shop that buys whatever looked good at the time ends up with a stockroom full of furniture that does not go with anything. Our footprints are 300, 400 and 600mm square, which group into runs of any length, and the heights are on a 100mm ladder so the tops line up when you want them to and step evenly when you do not.