Keepers of memoirs

Overview of the furniture market for collections: varieties of racks and glazed cabinets used materials. Principles of placement of exhibits on the shelves.

Some of the most favorite items collectibles

Books- books. It is convenient to store them on open racks, but not the most relevant or very expensive copies better to clean for glass doors.

Collection Melody ("Dyatkovo")

Architect

V. Scardana

Photo K. Dubovets

Partitions are securely attached to the guns to the floor and ceiling

(Mr. Doors)

Odalia.

The design allows you to install the Rack "Lacc" (IKEA) as horizontally and vertically, and for greater mobility, and attach wheels to it

Paolo Marchetti.

Plate Tamburato:

A-lacquered film coating;

B-core filled with "honeycomb" from cellulose;

in-frame made of array of wood

Harmonious neighborhood of display cases and racks with glass elements

(ASTOR MOBILI)

Furniture from modular elements ("Dyatkovo")

Cupboard

Handmade made of walnut array (IMART)

Large collection exhibits are better stored on the lower shelves, small -

On the top

Now books and CDs are always at hand (Mr. doors)

Project Manager

A. Kleschevnikov

Photo by D. Minkin

On the shelves - a cheerful toy company

Have you ever had anything to collect? Probably it is difficult to find a person who would escape this exciting classes. For some collections, there is enough pair of plump albums or one or two boxes. But most of the collected exhibits require special furniture with open shelves open. Ideal in this case are racks and shop windows. About them and talk.

Open access

Paolo Marchetti If collectible items are not afraid of dust and are designed to always be at hand, they are located on open racks. These designs allow you to sort a huge number of exhibits on the subject and at any time to know exactly what the shelf is stored. The rack can occupy the walls throughout the perimeter of the room or trunks under the stairs, to turn the front door or modestly located under the window or in the corner. In addition to the organizing function, it is capable of performing separation, that is, zonate space. In this case, the rack is installed not along the wall, but across the room. In addition, mobile facilities equipped with wheels are becoming increasingly popular. Such structures are usually not very high and easily move. They are offered Dolce Vita (Russia), IKEA (Sweden) and a number of other companies.

Passion or passion? ..

For some collectibles, this is a fleeting passion, for other passion for the whole life, which encourages constantly expanding the horizons, analyze, strive to become a real specialist in the study area. Collectibles can be used, butterflies, soaps, nonhake, elephants, green pigs, bells, indoor plants, books, rewards, lids, toys, figurines, unusual shapes pebbles, autographs, photos, vintage receivers, archaeological finds ... can also collect Compliments, complaints, unfinished cases, funny inscriptions, trash on the windowsill, dreams, records, but it does not have anything to do with the furniture.

One of the design options "Matrix" ("ELIKOR") Some manufacturers (IKEA, for example) produce narrow racks ("LAKK"), which easily change the vertical position to horizontal and can be attached to the wall or mounted on the wheels. A special form of transformable models offers a group of companies "ELIKOR" (Russia). This is a collection-collapsible design "Matrix", which can consist of shelves of six sizes and connecting their metallic tubes of four length options. Shelves depending on the customer's desire make from laminated chipboard (chipboard), glass, metal or wood. The tubes are tightly joined one on the other by the type "bolt-nut", and the shelf is securely fixed between them. Such a construction at any time can be modified - to make high, to the ceiling, or low, enveling the most complex areas of the room.

The author of the project

A. Lulkov

Photo M. Stepanova

This shellage seals the kitchen from the living room. The classic rack does not assume the presence of facades transparent, nor deaf, but can have drawers. Shelves are attached to solid partitions or vertical stands. In the second case, the design is characterized by greater openness, it becomes more translucent, especially if the shelves are glass. In the height of the shelves can be adjusted using perforated side panels. The depth of the shelving shelves usually does not exceed 35cm, the length is 100cm, otherwise the in the middle of each of them will require an additional support.

The design with a height of up to 210cm and a depth of at least 30 cm, with the rear wall and deaf partitions, as a rule, sufficiently stable and does not need a special mount. High and shallow construction is better fixed. It is either installed by the versus (between the floor and the ceiling), either attach to the floor and wall. So, in the assortment of Mr. Doors (Russia) There are racks of the Loft system with aluminum vertical racks, which are proposed to screw the bolts to the floor, ceiling or wall. This allows you to secure the design in the desired position. It is only important to remember that interior partitions from drywall are not designed for greater load, and they are better not to use them as the fastening plane.

Wrapped or lacquer finish (poetter) in the manufacture of shelves apply mainly chipboard, glass (preferably tempered), wooden slats, metal. Less often use a tree array. About 30 years ago there was a new type of plates for the manufacture of cabinet furniture, including racks - Tamburato. This material was invented by the Italian masters, and at first it was used only by small manufacturers. Only after Tamburato was checking time, it began to use well-known companies (Mobileffe, Molteni, Poliform, Map, Italy). Tamburato is a panel with a thickness of 3.6-5 cm, the frame of which is made of array of coniferous wood, and the core is filled with perforated "honeycombs" from high-quality cellulose. The array is veneered with MDF, film and is covered with varnish, which makes the stove stable to scratch, abrasion and the effects of such substances as acetic acid, ink, ammonia alcohol IT.P. The Tamboorato panel is three times easier and twice as fast as a similar wood-shake. The same 1m2 of this material (reliably fixed with high-quality accessories) withstands a uniformly distributed mass in 100 kg. One advantage of a new plate is that it is significantly less than an array of wood, prone deformation from the difference in humidity and temperature, and its bending resistance in 2.5 times higher than that of the DSP panel. Avteda is very important for storing books.

Paolo Marchetti.

These shelves are made of IceWood-plates consisting of natural wood bars and organic material that glued according to special technology among completely new, alternative materials will be called IceWood slab, developed by Paolo Marchetti (Italy). In such a panel alternately glued with each other bars of transparent organic material and natural wood (maple, oak, cherries, pears, nuts, on the choice of the customer). Made from it both frame structures and shelves. The decorative IceWood effect is enhanced if the products are highlighted from it. The manufacturer gives an IceWood ten-year warranty.

You can buy a rack in the finished form ("Istramebel", IKEA, etc.). But to take into account all the wishes of buyers, many firms manufactures this type of furniture to order. This service is offered by Mr. Doors (Russia), Schmalenbach (Germany), Paolo Marchetti IDR. There is another option to compile a composition of the range of modules. This is a practitioner of Dolce Vita, Dyatkovo trademarks, Odalia Furniture Concern "Katyusha" (Russia), Astor Mobili (Italy), Poetter (Germany), Naturantaix, Nueva Linea (Voefain) IDR.

Do you enjoy you?

Architect

M. Stepanova

Photo V. Nefedova

Every detail of the collection will emphasize the backlight. A special role in the shop windows is given to the backlight. With its help, you can arrange accents, emphasize the relief and volume of one or another exhibit, create inside the showcase and around it a special atmosphere. For these purposes, low-power halogen lamps and LEDs are usually used, which are practically not heated. If the shelves are transparent and there are objects of glass or crystal on them, it is possible to effectively highlight them from below to emphasize the crystal purity of the glass and its shades (if the glass is color). To focus on the painting of porcelain dishes, it is usually covered on top or from sides. And on a particularly valuable thing - the pride of the collection is directed point light. If it is necessary that the light is scattered, the light bulbs are located around the perimeter. But with backlit it is important not to overdo it. Many collections in general do not need light, penetrating through glass doors, as a rule, is quite enough.

Shelves of the rack at the request of the customer can be fixed around the door or window opening

(Mr. Doors) The cost of the rack depends on its size, the materials from which it is made, as well as on their quality. For example, in Paolo Marchetti, a 195.6cm model, a length of 97.2 cm and a depth of 33.6 cm, with six shelves and deaf side panels from Tamburato, with a rear wall of MDF with a film coating (texture and color- Any) will cost the customer approximately In 555. At Mr. DOORS Rack 92.5 cm long, 235.2 cm and a depth of 35cm, with a seven shelves from a chipboard with a thickness of 25 cm and solid partitions from the same material costs $ 431, and if the shelves are replaced with glass, about $ 361 (Studio 38). And if the glass shelves attach to two aluminum racks, the construction of the same manufacturer will cost $ 257 (Loft system). In IKEA, the rack of the "Tunhem" series (2119732cm) from the pine massif covered with a transparent varnish is invited to be purchased in about 175.

Shuprine kingdom

The angular showcase with a bent facade, decorated with thread (Panamar). Cute things that we want to protect against dust (textile dolls, dear china. IT.P.), it is better to store in glazed windows cabinets, as well as in small cabinets with transparent doors-slides . Extremely valuable copies of the owners collection prefer to lock on the key (which is provided for by manufacturers). Stallows along with the table, chairs and the counter are often part of the dining group. It is assumed that you should have at least one collection of beautiful dishes. Astor Mobili, Giorgio Piotto, Paolo Marchetti, ImaX (Italy), Nueva Linea, Collection Alexandra, Panamar, Skovby, Vlker Design, Poetter (Germany), Mr., can be called among the manufacturers of such furniture. DOORS, ASTRON, ATLANTIC-ST (Russia) and a number of others.

Even ordinary pebbles, chestnuts and dried flowers can become a kind of collection, if they are placed in such a showcase (IKEA), showcases can be different in shape and design: square, rectangular, oval, round, concave-convex, angular IT.D. Basically, these are cabinets that are located along the walls (by the way, away from direct sunlight so that the exhibits placed in them are not injured). But there are both mounted, and mobile models (on wheels), and those that are mounted under the transparent tabletop of the coffee table, such as "Pilb" (IKEA). The box-showcase in this case is divided with partitions on equal squares, in which the original accessories can be placed (including sea shells, pebbles, dried flowers) and look at them, chatting a cup of coffee.

Usually at home, showcases are not used, transparent from all four sides (in contrast to shop windows). The opaque case is made of wood array, MDF, chipboard or metal. All transparent vertical surfaces must be made of tempered glass. Shelves prevail glass or chipboard.

Items placed in a shop window glazed from all four sides are simply obliged to be bright

(Vlker Design) Like racks, showcases can be bought ready or order from the manufacturer by an individual project. Models of Western companies, handles, cast from bronze (Collection Alexandra), or with wave-like facades (Skovby), with a patina effect (Giorgio Piotto) - for the price are comparable to a good wardrobe (and this is at least 4000). The cost of the showcase from the oktava modular series from "Dyatkovo" with a length of 42cm, 195cm high and a depth of 37cm with a housing from LDSP and a facade of MDF and glass - 4920 rub. A similar model with one lamp costs 6470 rubles. The attachment "Atlantic-St" cabinet made of glass, made to order, will cost 100-1000 or more.

The position obliges

Small little things are better to place on the upper, open glances, and large-on the lower, the equilibrium is preserved. The most advantageous place is on the level of the eyes and slightly above, at the height of the elongated hand. However, you can look at the exhibits exposed on the shelves at the shelves not only standing, but also sitting. Therefore, some collectors place items in the storefront or on the rack in such a way as to admire the most interesting of them, it was possible, conveniently located in the chair or on the couch.

In this childhood thanks to the rack system there is a place for all books and toys

(Paolomarchetti) The winning collection looks at any background, and not on the lumen. The background, in turn, should not be too distrend (in order not to distract attention from artifacts) and preferably contrast (otherwise the collection on it can "be lost"). Sometimes inside the showcase or on the shelves of racks create a specially thought-out composition. It is better to also play with geometry, and not to place objects boring rows.

We hope that after reading this article you will want if you do not acquire a new rack or shop window, then at least release a few shelves in the already existing "open" furniture and collect an interesting, colorful collection for home and soul.

The editors thanks the company IKEA, Mr. Doors, Paolo Marchetti, Studio-Line, "Academy of the Interior", IBTM, Furniture Concern Katyusha, MODUL Groups, Elycor, Auction House "Gelos" for help in the preparation of material.