Sustainable installation solutions for Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
As the leading sustainable display systems manufacturer, Protean Design has been contracted to provide Dusseldorf's Museum Kunst Palast with a display walling system for the first in line of the museum's temporary exhibitions.
Protean Design provides unique, versatile and sustainable display systems for installations in exhibitions, museums and galleries. Refreshing the look and re-configuring exhibition display spaces are constant challenges for museums and galleries - the Reform Gallery walling system provides a sustainable, cost effective solution.
Protean's Reform Gallery walling system was selected following a visit from Kunst Palast's senior staff to the Tate Modern, London, which uses the Reform Gallery walling system in its large temporary exhibition galleries.
The Reform Gallery walling system is combined on site at the Kunst Palast with its existing walling and is part of a long term investment from the museum to provide a sustainable solution that will replace all their current walling, saving resources and expenditure in the long term.
A team from Protean handled the initial installation, whilst training and supporting a local team that, with its ease of use, will install and reconfigure the systems themselves in the future.
The Reform Gallery walling system provides a fully re-usable and re-configurable heavy duty aluminium framework, which is clad with bespoke re-usable MDF panels. The ‘snap-on' application of the panels to the face of the framework uses the unique and concealed Reform clip-strips - no screws!
The 3mm join between adjoining sheets is concealed by a simple infill seated into a rebate along the edges of the panels. This infill is then taped and filled on site leaving a seamless wall ready for painting. When it comes to re-configuring/demounting, the infill strip is removed pulling out cleanly ‘in one go' all the filler material and exposing again the 3mm join - allowing for the release of the clip-strip and the removal of the panels - undamaged, clean and ready for re-use.
The Protean team design the Reform Gallery to any practicable module(s) to suit each particular venue or design needs either with minimal fixing to the fabric of the building or free-standing or with showcase inserts - a true system with endless design possibilities.
Colin Hibbs, Managing Director at Protean Design, commented: "We are delighted to be providing Kunst Palast with a sustainable solution for the gallery walls and hope that the gallery's environmental savings in using the system will prove significant.
"Easily customised, rapid to install and fully reconfigurable, the Reform Gallery system is applicable to any gallery situation, where quality, ease of use, cost savings and sustainability through reuse are important factors."
Reform Gallery is part of the Protean Reform range.
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