Loft Retail Equipment

For a shop selling tableware and bar supplies we built a set of fittings on a black metal frame. The key piece is a wall-side bottle display shelving unit: six tiers packed with syrups and toppings. The rest of the sales floor uses the same construction, with only the shelf spacing and hanging parts changing.

One frame for bottles and tableware

The frame is made of slim square tube in matt black. The uprights run the full height and every shelf sits in its own horizontal frame, so the board lies flush with the metal and is supported along its whole perimeter rather than at four points. The shelves are dark brown with a wood grain, and coloured labels and ceramics stand out against them better than against white. It is the same loft principle as in our wine rack with a glass holder, scaled up to a sales floor.

Islands with no back panel

In the middle of the room the units stand in runs of two or three bays and work like gondolas: there is no back panel and goods are picked from both aisles. You can see right through the room and the aisles do not feel tight. The top tier is closed with a solid shelf that ties the bays together and gives room for spare stock. The bays are identical, so a run can be extended or split in two; we cover this approach in our piece on modular shop fittings.

Knives, boards and cutlery

Whatever is awkward to lay on a shelf goes onto the verticals. The knife unit has its back and one side closed with black perforated sheet carrying holders. Chopping boards, pans and colanders hang from hooks directly on the top frame. Cutlery has its own zone of dark timber shelving with sloped, lipped shelves: forks and knives face the customer at an angle and do not slide off. Pale ceramics and fragile decor we displayed differently, on light-shelf shelving for a decor shop. A display for different goods on the same kind of black section is the display shelving with a desk for a furniture store.

A set like this suits shops that sell heavy bottles, tableware and small equipment on the same floor. More solutions for sales floors are on our custom shop fittings page.