A good friend of mine, and general contractor for many years, approached me to participate in developing a concept of a retail/event space for a young, Minneapolis based company. The company retailes beanies, scarfes, and sweaters with great success, and donates 50% of their profits to children cancer research. After a meeting on site, I developed a concept for the display wall in CAD, and shared the drawings with my friend. He immediately asked me to fabricate a sample to present to the CEO within the next few days, to help visualize this unique concept. The retail/event space will be located in an old warehouse in the Minneapolis Warehouse District. Here are some pictures to show the process of fabricating this sample piece. I’m excited to present it tomorrow and to see how it will be received!
The display is based on vertical wall rails, which allow diplay cubbies to be individually hung in 9″ increments. The round stock is welded to the C-channel to receive the hanging brackets for the cubbies. Those rails will be 10 feet tall, and are able to hold 6 cubbies.
Here is the front detail of the vertical adjustment screws of the wall rails, to ensure they can be installed perfectly plumb.
A picture of the back.
The rails can also be height adjusted, to ensure alignment of all cubbies horizontally.
CNC plasma cutting the parts for the cubbies from 12ga mild steel.
Bending the hanging brackets.
Fits and works beautifully!
Starting to tack weld the parts for the display cubbies.
Again, my welding table makes it very easy and consistent.
I made and arm rest for welding, and it came in really handy while finish welding the outside corners.
I’m happy with the weld bead.
Finish grinding the corners.
Another view!
After cutting the backs, I’m getting ready to locate them with a 3/8″ setback inside the cubby
The 3/8″ aluminum spacers ensure the correct setback all the way around.
After welding the backs in place, I centered the hanging brackets on the backs for tack welding.
All welded in place.
A closeup!
Ready to be hung ito the wall rail!
Number 1 in place!
A different view!
Number 2 on top of Number 1, to show the continuous flow from one cubby into the next.
Another view!
The other side! There can be up to 6 cubbies on top of each other, and as many vertical wall rails as neccesarry, to display as many beanies as they want!
