Eureka Ergonomic’s Arundel Collection Moves Onto the Wall With Canvas, Its New Wall System
Walnut-grain panels, floating shelves, glass display cabinets, and a console with drawers share a single aluminum frame in Canvas, the Arundel Collection’s wall system by Eureka Ergonomic. Designed as one piece, the system allows an entire wall to be specified at once, in a range of finishes and layouts suited to a living room, a study, a bedroom, or a home office.
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The idea grew from how founder and CEO Tom Hu regards the wall. “A residence is defined as much by its walls as by its furniture,” he says. “Usually, though, paneling, shelves, display cabinets, storage, and lighting are specified separately and added to the wall one by one, and the wall becomes a place where many decisions meet but never quite agree.” Canvas brings them together from the start, in the same design language as the rest of Arundel.
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Material Range
Panels come in layered or plain walnut grain or a pale oak grain, and the frame in matte black, espresso brown, graphite grey, or satin platinum. The display cabinets take one of four types of glass, among them clear and frosted, and the console top comes in two tones. “The structure stays exactly the same; the character changes completely,” Hu explains. “Walnut grain with a dark frame and grey glass makes a warm, low-lit library for the evening. Oak grain with a pale frame and clear glass opens the wall to daylight, closer to a gallery.”
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Arrangement offers another layer of choice, with shelves, glass cabinets, shelf boxes, and closed storage composed around a television, set in rows for a library, or grouped in a study. According to Hu, “open shelving puts things on display, and more closed storage makes the wall calmer and more architectural.” He adds, “The richer the material palette becomes, the more disciplined the composition has to be.”
Light and Frame
LED lighting is set along the floating shelves and inside the glass cabinets, and in some configurations along the panel edges, with all wiring housed within the frame. “It decides how every surface is read, so it cannot be an afterthought,” Hu says of the light.
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Standard layouts measure between just under 10 and nearly 17 feet wide, and the system installs with no structural changes to the room. For spaces beyond those dimensions, Canvas can also be made fully custom. As Hu puts it, “Either way, the designer gets the built-in look without rebuilding the wall.”
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Canvas can be seen at Eureka Ergonomic’s High Point showroom, IHFC D440. Designers can plan a wall with the Eureka Ergonomic team at [email protected] or apply to the trade program.
