Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designer Axel Bjurström presented TV Easel at the Greenhouse young designers showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week.
The design is one of three TV furniture concepts developed by Bjurström for home electronics brand Panasonic.
Here’s a bit of info from Bjurström:
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With the form of a traditional painter’s easel, the freestanding TV-rack on wheels is prefect for the open spaces often found in modern apartments. It is optimized for TV-sizes between 32-47” and it is adjustable in both height and angle. Material is solid wood, natural or lacquered.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
i like it super simple.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pmHope it’s not going to be more expensive than the TV.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:02 amGenius. If my wife would go for it, I’d absolutely do this.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:45 amBest piece of design I’ve seen in a long time
February 13th, 2008 at 8:29 amPretty sweet!
February 13th, 2008 at 11:13 amI actually did this last year for my apartment with a 37″ LG 720p - my motivation was to have a place to put a small HTPC below the TV since I couldn’t mount either on the walls due to the restrictions on my lease. No wheels though and I used a router to make a groove in the rear leg to chase cables up to the screen from the PC. To fix the vertical axis (and reduce glare) I picked up two wood screw clamps and fixed the back jaw to a 24″ beam made from 1″ by 2″ then drilled and inset the collar bolt for a worm screw which feeds through a matching 8″ long 1″ by 2″ spanning the forward legs.
Who knew? I thought this was old hat given how many LCD picture frames ship with flimsy plexi-glass easels for the desk, not sure if I’d be comfortable with doing the same for a set larger than 42″ though.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:59 pmEstimated price?
February 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pmummmmmm….can it be purchased overseas and shipped???
February 13th, 2008 at 11:14 pmLooks great but what about all the connections hidden in the base of many LCD.They are not all in the back so do you have to actually drill the frame
February 14th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHow to change the angle?
February 15th, 2008 at 11:24 amIs it Art?
February 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pmI thought the reasoning behind a flat screen was to omit the space behind the set??
Though this idea looks very cool I’m afraid that it wastes space, shows the connection cords and is a step backwards towards the soon to be obsolete deep “tube” TV’s first made back in the 50’s. Plus the angle is off.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:07 pmlet us all just agree that this is Bad Design.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pm