TV Units & Bookshelves

TV Units & Bookshelves

A media wall is the one piece of furniture in a house that has to solve a technical problem as well as a visual one. Two things decide whether it works: where the screen sits, and how the equipment breathes.

Screen height, which means a low unit

A screen is comfortable when its centre is at seated eye level — roughly 100 to 110 cm from the floor. For a large television that is only possible if the unit under it is low; on a tall cabinet a 65-inch screen ends up well above eye height, and you feel it in your neck after an hour. Horizon is drawn low for exactly this reason, and a long horizontal line also stops a wide screen from looking stranded on the wall.

Open bays and closed doors are not a style choice

An amplifier or a set-top box behind a solid door gets hot and, unless the door is glass, stops answering its remote. Cables need a route out of the back rather than a bundle on the floor. Horizon is built with both kinds of compartment so the equipment goes in the open bays and the clutter goes behind doors; Quinto uses glass where you want things closed but still reachable by remote. Tell us what the equipment is and the internal layout is set to it.

Shelf span is structural, not decorative

A wooden shelf carrying a full run of books will bow if the span is too long, which is why the module width on a bookcase is an engineering decision rather than a proportion. Loft is all timber and divided accordingly. Moonlight takes the load in metal, so the openings can be wider and the shelves thinner, and the composition reads as lines rather than a grid of boxes — the metal is visible, so it is part of the design. Compasso runs the full length of a wall and joins media storage to open shelving in one composition.

Built to the wall

These are made to the length and height of the wall they occupy, not to a catalogue size — which matters here more than anywhere else, because a composition that ends in a narrow offcut at one end is the fault you would look at every day. Send the clear wall width and height, the depth you can give up, and the screen size. Quinto exists in two versions, so tell us whether the unit is mainly for a television, mainly for display, or both.

Materials

Walnut, oak and anigre from our Sitwood line, hand-finished so the grain stays continuous across the full run — a wall-length unit is the largest single area of timber in a room. Glass and metal specified per project. Wood pieces are typically ready in six to eight weeks. Made in our Istanbul workshop.