“HARLEQUIN” AND THE FURNITURE AND TOYS

Aesthetic education begins in early childhood. Comprehending the diversity of the world through surrounding objects, the child becomes familiar with proportions, materials, forms and color. If from an early age to instill the concept of beauty, composition, harmony, and later, enlisting in life, people will try to decorate it — in the best sense of the word.

This is the starting point came the specialists of the Leningrad scientific-production Association “Reproachment” to design a set of furniture for children “harlequin”. The kit is designed for the full equipment of a children’s room with play corner, a place for classes and recreation on the basis of the same pieces of furniture. With simple modern forms, spectral colors, your furniture, as it reminds the toys. And some items, table with chair and folding screen, serve as play elements, like transferring the children’s Playground from the yard into the room.

 

Structurally, the set of furniture “harlequin” prefabrication, with the exception of certain parts. The main material is the leaf blocks with a total thickness of 10 mm made of two layers of fibreboard (MDF) with a layer of peeled veneer. Such plates are difficult to make at home, so for self-build kit-replace multi-layered plywood or a thin wood chip plates (DSP). All items of furniture are unified. Due to the same width cupboard, shelving and cabinets, their shelves, outdoor bins are also the same. To impart rigidity in the vertical walls in the mounting shelves saw through the slots and the shelves themselves do the tabs that insert into the grooves and fix the furniture bolted to the corners. Cabinet doors are mounted on hinges — two brackets and the axle. But you can use regular furniture or piano hinges. Outdoor bins are assembled from sheets of particle Board; the connection on the corners, round plug-in thorns. To the bottom of each drawer is screwed to the four sliding roller.

 

Fig. 1. Wardrobe:

1 — door, 2 — lateral stand, 3 — door handle 4 — front wall of the floor box 5 — bottom of floor box 6 — partition 7 — pivot hinges 8 — rear wall rack, 9 — peg, 10 — partition.

 

Fig. 2. Furniture section:

1 — door, 2 — panel, 3 — door handle 4 — cassette, 5 — counter, 6 — joints, 7 — the front wall of the floor box, 8 — the side wall cabinets, 9 — rear wall cabinets, 10 — shelf.

 

Fig. 3. Door hinge:

1 bracket-door, 2 — side wall bracket, 3 — axis hinge.

 

The furniture section is assembled from three tables: two are located vertically one above the other and fixed with tape on the furniture bolts and one is the length of the table, which connects it with the bottom pedestal. The tabletop is mounted on the corners of the external walls of the cabinets.