Product Specifications EMPIRE
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Empire Design by Alfredo Häberli Alfredo Häberli of Zürich designed Empire for Quodes. This Argentine-born designer chose basic geometric shapes and piled them one on top of the other to create interesting patterns. Both the variation and the contours give the furniture a fascinating and visual shape. Empire bookcases are ‘furniture sculptures’, suitable for storing books and exhibiting objects. Empire has been exhibited in the ‘Museum für Gestaltung’ in Zürich, Switzerland and in the ‘Kölnisches Kunstverein’ in Cologne, Germany. It has also been published a lot around the world. It is easy to find a space for it and it is extremely practical: books automatically lay on their side, thus making it so there is no need for book supports anymore! Empire is very decorative, even more when used in repetition. Quodes T 0031 (0)23 533 7 533 F 0031 (0)23 5406 222 info@quodes.com www.quodes.com Empire Product Information vdec0

About the designer Alfredo Häberli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964. He moved to Switzerland in 1977 and graduated 1991 with distinction in Industrial Design at the Höhere Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich. Today, he is an internationally established designer based in Zurich and is working for several of the leading companies of the international design industry. Quodes T 0031 (0)23 533 7 533 F 0031 (0)23 5406 222 info@quodes.com www.quodes.com Empire Product Information vdec016

Materials ‘Empire’ is made of 17 mm thick MDF panels, lacquered in satin colours. The lacquer has a textured finish, see image on the right. Colours Satin Traffic White (Ral 9016) is the standard colour. Any other satin or regular RAL colour is possible. Even most NCS colours can be delivered. Surcharge applies. Examples of colour options Empire Product Information vdec016

Construction Empire is technically an extremely challenging product. It requires 3D milling equipment with the highest possible precision and is made with a high level of craftsmanship, delicate assembly and lacquering process. Delivery & Mounting We deliver Empire fully mounted. For export destinations, we recommend packaging in a wooden crate. Empire is equipped with adjustable feet, so it is easy to level the cabinet in a perfectly horizontal position. Empire can be installed freestanding. Nevertheless, we recommend for security reasons to place Empire against a wall. Maintenance &...