Exhibition stands
Modular systems and one-off builds for trade fairs. Reusable frames, replaceable graphics, crated for repeat outings.
Helsinki · since 2011
Structures that let the object speak.
We design, build and install exhibition stands, retail displays and museum casework. The workshop is in Konala; the work travels across the Nordics and into central Europe.
A joinery workshop that thinks in exhibitions
Most of what we build is seen for four days and then taken apart. That shapes how we work: everything is designed to be carried through a service door, assembled by two people, and packed back into the same crates it arrived in.
The rest — vitrines, plinths, storage for collections — is built to the opposite brief. It has to stand still for twenty years without moving a millimetre or off-gassing anything that would trouble a conservator.
How a project usually runs
- Brief and survey. We measure the space ourselves. Floor plans are often out of date, and a 30 mm error becomes a problem at 3 m.
- Drawings and a sample. You get a finish sample before anything is cut.
- Build. Four to seven weeks in the workshop, depending on finish.
- Install and strike. Our own crew, our own van, our own crates.
What we do
Four things, properly, rather than everything badly.
Retail displays
Shop fittings, window schemes and product plinths. Built to survive being touched by several thousand people a week.
Museum casework
Low-reflection glazing, conservation-grade materials, controlled access. Built for objects that cannot be replaced.
Installation
Transport, assembly, on-site adjustment and strike. We do not subcontract this part.
Selected work
Nordic Timber Pavilion
A 96 m² stand in cross-laminated spruce, assembled in eleven hours and dismantled in six. Now on its third outing.
Kaisla Optics flagship
Wall systems and 44 lockable frame trays for a shop that changes its window every three weeks.
Coastal Archaeology vitrines
Nine sealed cases with silica reservoirs and fibre-optic lighting, for waterlogged timber that had spent 600 years in the Baltic.
“They turned up at seven, and by the time the hall opened the stand looked like it had grown there. The crates were labelled better than our own inventory.”
Anni — exhibitions producer
“We asked for something that would still look right after two winters of people leaning on it. Three years on, it does.”
Marko — retail concept lead
Have a stand, a shop or a collection to house?
Send the dates and the floor area. If it is not something we should build, we will usually know within a day and say so.