FEWER WALLS, SO …
We are living in revolutionary times.
Where have the walls for the wall cabinets gone? What objects are left to put in them? The effects of digitisation, open interior design, and the more relaxed post-Covid lifestyle all add up to one thing: the wall cabinet faces an existential challenge. This process has been playing out for some time and is still ongoing. But Meubar is forging ahead with courage. If walls are disappearing, how can cabinets continue to exist?
The ready-made dining room has long been superseded by something that you shop for piece by piece. And the beautiful dinner service reserved for special occasions has been a thing of the past for years. Books, CDs and DVDs have disappeared from the living room. Or been banished to the collector’s hobby room. Interior design is all about openness: open kitchens, open living spaces, the open door to the terrace or garden, the open walk-in-closet minus the closet. These days, interiors revolve around light and air. And all of the above developments have made their mark on The Cabinet.
Less wall space? The response must surely be to shift the focus from room width to ceiling height. This allows you to make the most of the available wall space. Sideboards acquire a cabinet on top, preferably partially open/transparent for a light and airy effect. This solution works brilliantly for (semi-)classic styles such as the Alba range.
A spatial look & feel and cupboard space? Then modern, wall-mounted cabinets are the way forward. These days, modern equals organic, aka gently rounded corners. Meubar begins with a type of tall cabinet on high legs: Locarno in the new walnut with touches of colour in a soft cream or the safe black.
Meubar goes one step further with floating highboards and/or sideboards. Lago can be mounted alone, or in an architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal elements. An additional option is the floor plateau with uplighter spotlights. These accentuate the play of volumes and voids on the wall above.
So what makes Lago downright surprising? The child’s bedroom — in response to market demand! The same organic lines, a similar floating effect. OK: so why not suspend it from the wall? But a child’s bedroom is different to a living room. It will require changing sooner. That’s why the bedside tables are affixed to the bed. So no holes in the wall, when you reconfigure your child’s bedroom, when you live in a rented house, when you move house. This makes all the difference! It allows you to think ahead.
