Stands for audio and video equipment: a variety of styles and images, a combination of luxury and practicality

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Leading headings: Elena Prytula

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov, Vitaly Nefedov

Magazine: (Specific) 2002

It is finished. Audio and video equipment has ceased to be a necessity that, from the point of view of design, with great difficulty fits into the interior and with which you always have to put up. Many of the latest models of televisions and music centers themselves are now becoming designer masterpieces. Even ordinary items like racks and stands are worth it. Stands for audio and video equipment in the recent past did not differ much diversity. The functional requirements rigidly determined the shape and configuration of the elements, turning the choice of supports into a purely mechanical procedure. The situation changed after designers of high level paid attention to these auxiliary pieces of furniture. According to the new concept, the equipment and furniture for it should form not only functional, but also aesthetic unity. In this series, first of all, of course, there are supports, developed by manufacturers of high-class equipment and designed for specific models of this company. All LOEWE coasters are perfectly matched with LOEWE TVs in design, color and material. Designers BANG&OLUFSENWhen designing a stand for a music center, they create not only a sound, but also a visual image - the absolute correspondence of technology and beauty. In addition, companies that specialize in high-class equipment are producing stands: for example, a USUS stand with a CD archiving system for the BeoSound Ouverture music center, BANG&OLUFSEN. Today, luxury must certainly be combined with practicality. Therefore, the materials from which the furniture is made for audio and video equipment are of high quality and manufacturability: the graceful-looking glass racks from TONELLI withstand a weight of up to several tens of kilograms. LI KO DESIGN uses natural stone, quartz glass and precision machined metal. It can be transparent, showing the "architecture" of the rack - a support for the music center from JAHNKE is made of such glass, or frosted, from which the top rotating support element for the TV of the same company is made. Finally, the success formula for the design of the 20th century is, of course, glass plus metal (BACHER TISCHE or CATTELAN ITALIA). The multiplicity of functions - the basic principle of modern design, and therefore applicable for auxiliary furniture. This thesis was brilliantly proven by designer Siegfried Benzinger. The multiplicity of functions - the basic principle of modern design, and therefore applicable for auxiliary furniture. This thesis was brilliantly proven by designer Siegfried Benzinger. He created for INTERLUBKE a rack-divider of a space where a TV, a computer, a stereo system, and a bar can fit. TV cabinet from ACERBIS can be used as a storage system, and in the "wall" for the living room from sleepless integrated TV compartment. If the eye is tired of high-tech and minimalist aesthetics, at any time you can return to the good old days: these are the stands of expensive wood - cherry, walnut (LONGHI COMFORT). After all, a classic - it is always within sight.