Media Walls & Bookshelves
a good media wall disappears. the room feels calmer, cables are tamed, the proportions sit quietly with the architecture. shelves are set to the rhythm of your books and objects, and the equipment can breathe without you seeing vents and wires everywhere.
I size bookshelves for the loads they’ll carry, often 25–36 mm for real books, and I design spans so they don’t sag. this isn’t just for style, it’s simple engineering. shelf stiffness rises with the cube of thickness: double the thickness and the shelf is eight times as stiff. that’s why 18 mm, mass-produced shelves sag under paperbacks, and mine don’t. sag grows with the fourth power of span: halve the span and deflection drops by a factor of sixteen.
the result is fitted furniture that keeps its line years from now, not just on day one. doors can be timber or glass, access is discreet, lighting is designed in, and power is planned from the start. I measure with lasers, design from first principles in cad, then build and fit to the millimetre, one commission at a time.
