Chest of Six Drawers 800mm Wide in Birch Plywood

A 800mm chest of six drawers at 450mm deep. Soft close full extension runners, which is the part that decides whether a chest is still good in ten years.

Everything we sell is under 800mm wide. That is not a style, it is the constraint the whole range is designed around, because it is the measurement that decides whether a piece of furniture works in a small flat. Eight hundred millimetres is roughly the width of a standard internal door, the width of the gap most people have between a sofa and a wall, and the point past which a piece stops reading as part of the room and starts reading as an obstacle. Designing to it is harder than designing without it and it is the only interesting thing about furniture for small spaces.

Specification

• Dimensions: 800mm wide by 450mm deep by 800mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.36 square metres
• Material: 18 layer birch plywood with the edge left exposed and lacquered, so the layers read as a stripe
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed, handles in your chosen finish
• Capacity: 12kg per drawer, 40kg on the top
• Assembly: flat packed, about 70 minutes
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 2 cartons, largest 860mm by 850mm by 200mm. Through a standard 762mm door: on its side, yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 44.7 kilograms
• Drawers: six, soft close, full extension
• Runners: steel ball bearing, rated to 30kg and tested to 50,000 cycles
• Drawer boxes: 15mm ply with a rebated front
• Anti tip strap supplied, wall fixing optional
• Comes apart flat for a move

What you get

• The carcass and drawers, flat packed
• Soft close runners, pre fitted to every drawer
• Handles in your chosen finish
• Levelling feet and an anti tip strap
• Felt pads, hex key and printed instructions

Assembly

Flat packed, with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts rather than chipboard screws, which is what lets a piece be taken apart and reassembled without the joints going loose. We reckon on three moves and have tested to ten.

If you are renting

Freestanding, no wall fixing needed and no holes in anybody's plaster. An anti tip strap is in the box if you want it and there is nothing to make good if you never use it. Felt pads are fitted to every foot as standard, because the other way to lose a deposit is a scratch across a floor you did not lay.