Set of Five Graduated Risers 200mm Square in Gallery White Lacquer

Three graduated blocks that group and stack. A riser is the piece that stops a display being flat, and the reason most windows look better after somebody adds three of them.

A plinth is a simple object and almost every cheap one gets the same three things wrong. The panel is too thin, so the top deflects under a bronze and you can see it from across the room. The corners are mitred and glued rather than lock jointed, so they open after one move and the paint cracks at the arris. And there is no ballast, so a tall plinth with a light object on it can be knocked over by somebody walking past with a coat. Ours are 18mm on a braced internal frame, lock jointed at every corner, and ballasted at the base on anything over 900mm tall.

Specification

• Dimensions: 200mm square, heights 100, 200 and 300mm
• Display surface: 200mm by 200mm, flat and sprayed on all faces including the underside
• Construction: solid laminated core rather than a hollow box, so it does not sound hollow when something is put down on it
• 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
• Load rating: 40kg point load
• Levelling: felt pads on the base, not levelling feet
• Security: not applicable
• Delivery: flat packed in one small carton, or assembled
• Weight: approximately 8.6 kilograms
• Solid core, which is why it costs more than a hollow one and is worth it
• Sprayed on all six faces, including the underside
• Felt pads fitted, spares supplied
• Stacks with the rest of the riser range on a 100mm ladder
• Sold as a set of three

What you get

• The riser or risers, assembled
• Felt pads fitted and a spare set
• A 50ml pot of the exact finish
• A card showing three arrangements that work

Setting it up

Arrives assembled and blanket wrapped. Stand it where you want it, level it on the feet, and take the wrapping back to the van, which the delivery crew will do.

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.