Open Shelf Room Divider 800mm Wide in Solid Ash

A shelf unit finished on both faces so it can stand in the middle of a room, which most bookcases cannot.

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: panels 600mm wide, 1800mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.29 square metres
• Material: solid English ash, pale and straight grained, finished in hardwax oil
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed
• Capacity: stands unaided at up to 15 degrees of floor slope
• Assembly: arrives assembled, or 20 minutes for the tension types
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 1 carton, largest 640mm by 1850mm by 200mm. Through a standard 762mm door: yes. Into a small lift: only in a lift with a 1400mm car, otherwise it goes up the stairs
• Weight: approximately 35.7 kilograms
• Panels: one
• Hinges: double acting, so it folds either way
• Fixing: none, it stands on its own
• Height: 1800mm
• Felt pads on every foot

What you get

• The screen or divider
• Tension feet and ceiling plates
• Felt pads and a spare set
• A care card
• 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

Nothing here touches the wall. No drilling, no anchors, no filler and no repainting on the way out. Felt pads on every contact point, and a set of spare pads in the box for when the first set wears through.