Decor Shop Shelving

For a home decor and tableware shop we built a long wall-side unit on a slim metal frame. Tall industrial shop shelving is usually black, but here the frame is grey-beige and the shelves are cream: the colour was matched to the white and beige ceramics displayed on them.

A frame in the colour of the goods

The tube is slim and square, in a warm grey. Black metal would fight with white vases and smoked glass, whereas this tone acts as a picture frame: the eye stops on the objects, not on the structure. The shelves are pale and smooth with no wood grain, so small pieces are not lost against a busy background. There is no back panel, the wall shows through, and the whole unit does not weigh on the aisle. We also built fixtures for homeware in the Deko store.

Staggered shelves

The unit is made up of two modules of equal height, each divided by uprights into vertical bays. Shelves in neighbouring bays sit at different heights, offset from one another: every group of objects gets its own niche of the right height, and the display looks composed rather than stacked. Some shelves are short, one bay wide, while the bottom one runs unbroken along the whole module. The top tier is left as an empty frame: it sets the height without making anyone reach for stock.

Length to suit the wall

The modules stand tight together and form a wall shelving unit across the whole wall; after a move or an expansion the run can be extended with one more module. Why repeatable elements pay off for a shop is covered in our piece on modular shopfitting. One more take on shelving for this kind of range is in the decor shop with gondolas and window-side shelving. The same slim construction in a home interior is the black room-divider shelving between the living and dining areas.

A unit like this suits decor, tableware and gift shops where the goods are pale and fragile. Other formats are on our custom shop fittings page.