Small Shop Floor Package in Birch Plywood

Everything needed for a shop floor of about 30 square metres, furnished so it can be rearranged weekly, 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: 18 layer birch plywood with the edge exposed and lacquered, so the layers read as a fine stripe around every corner, 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 124.1 kilograms in total
• Contents: five plinths on a 100mm height ladder, two nesting plinth pairs, one lockable tabletop case, four risers, concealed glides on everything over 900mm
• 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

• Five plinths on a 100mm height ladder
• Two nesting plinth pairs
• One lockable tabletop case
• Four risers
• Concealed glides on everything over 900mm
• 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.