Wall unit

A wall unit (or growing family, not to be confused with closet ) is a large, multi-part cabinet, which consists of either individual, screwed together elements or also exists in so-called continuous construction of individual pages and floors.

Species

Cabinets are now manufactured mainly in industrial construction series. The advantage of the endless assembly is the large flexibility that allows to adapt the cabinet wall just to the room. As cupboards but they are built by carpenter's also a perfect fit. They can be interpreted as an excuse or as a room divider elements. Room divider cabinet walls have a back panel. If they are installed, they can be connected to the house walls as well as up to the ceiling with the help of aperture left and right.

Method of construction

The items are made ​​of veneered or coated chipboard or blockboard stabverleimten. Highly stressed cabinet walls in offices often have on all sides and fixed shelves, front and rear metal fittings ( frame construction ), which serve to connect the individual sites and construction shelves and the host of fittings (door hinges, shelf supports, fixtures, door locks ).

In so-called system cabinet walls not only shelves, but also many other built-in elements can be incorporated, such as pull-out frame for hanging files, form inserts, wardrobes, safes, refrigerators, kitchen compartments, passage doors. Also requirements can be taken into account for increased sound insulation.

The individual storage units can be closed with hinged or sliding doors. Also open cabinets without doors, but then with a niche lining, are possible. Room divider can be combined with partition walls. In this way, empty floors, particularly of office buildings, are equipped with flexible, anytime convertible rooms.

History

The Viennese architect Franz Schuster designed already in 1921 a wall unit program for the furniture factory Württemberg Erwin Behr. In 1955 Johan bus designed for the Behr wall unit system BMZ. BMZ meant Behr furniture disassembled This system was sold to the eighties.

In the sixties, the number of manufacturers of cabinet wall systems extended with the Interlübke with the system SL, which is still made today, and Hülsta the system Allwand.

It was particularly in Germany and is the wall unit as a popular piece of furniture in private, but also in the office area. In 1997 more than 4 million Cabinets were sold. Advantage of the cabinet wall is that it offers plenty of storage space on a small footprint. For modern living room décor a classic wall unit affects many people but to massively today. The ceiling-high, wide and massive wall unit can be found today, therefore, still rather in office. In private rooms, a modern variant of the cabinet or wall unit is preferred which is characterized by a flexible combination of individual cabinets, shelves and display cases; after this manner doth the cabinet wall airy.