Ladder Shelf 700mm Wide with Five Shelves in Solid Ash

A 700mm bookcase at 300mm deep, which is deep enough for a hardback and shallow enough not to dominate a small room. Leans against the wall with no fixing at all.

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: 700mm wide by 300mm deep by 1700mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.21 square metres
• Material: solid English ash, pale and straight grained, finished in hardwax oil
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed
• Capacity: 30kg per shelf evenly distributed
• Assembly: flat packed, about 40 minutes
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 1 carton, largest 760mm by 1650mm by 120mm. Through a standard 762mm door: on its side, yes. Into a small lift: only in a lift with a 1400mm car, otherwise it goes up the stairs
• Weight: approximately 22.6 kilograms
• Shelves: five, fixed and through tenoned
• Shelf gap: graduated, 420mm at the bottom to 220mm at the top
• Depth: 300mm
• Lean angle: 12 degrees, with a rubber wall foot that does not mark paint
• Comes apart flat for a move

What you get

• The frame and five shelves, flat packed
• Through bolts
• Levelling feet and felt pads
• Two rubber wall feet
• 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.