Overhead shelving: how we used it in the Wish Store

For over 50 years, Italmodular has been a production company aimed at combining, in our offer, innovation, quality and reliability. Our products can be applied to rationalize and organize the storage space of any kind of workplace. For example, our overhead shelving is so useful that, recently, the Wish Store reached out and asked us if we wanted to take part in their revolutionary project. Read the article if you want to know what our answer was!

 

Why you should use our modular shelving in your store

Is it possible to go beyond the limited space available? With the overhead shelving, at Italmodular we wanted to create a model able to increase spaces up to the 90% compared to traditional shelving. To achieve this product we have designed and patented an overhead sliding system, smooth and quiet. If your goal is to optimize your available room, we guarantee that this system is the best solution. In fact, due to its versatility and adaptaility, it’s suitable for a lot of different applications. Our overhead shelving is exactly what your need for your shop, and the case of the Wish Store clearly proves it.

First of all, in places like stores and boutiques the shelving is exposed and, as a consequence, it has to blend seamlessly with the aesthetic of the surrounding space. For this reason in our projects we pay close attention to design and elegance.

In the second place, whatever product you’ll be exhibiting, our overhead shelving is a guarantee of safety: strong and firm, they do not need any special fastening or anchoring and are conceived to take heavy loads with minimal bending. Each sliding module has a load capacity of approx. 400 kg, which amounts to 1,600 kg for a standard module.

In addition, at Italmodular we build our shelving with anodized aluminium alloy and polyethylene or aluminium shelves. These materials are high-quality, elegant, and they’ll assure you lasting stability against corrosion.

Lastly, an essential feature of your store will be for sure hygiene. Our overhead shelving will come to the rescue allowing  for the quickest and most efficient cleaning. How? For one, they’re characterized by smooth, rounded surfaces, closed profiles and total absence of gaps and cracks in which dirt can lurk. Then, the innovative hanging system keeping the shelving off the ground will make cleaning the floor easier than ever.

Our overhead shelving in the Wish Store

Wish is one of the few stores that in the States can sell the products of some of the most exclusive footwear brands in the world. The key to success has always been the limited stock of items that are usually very difficult to find or eagerly awaited. In fact, they’re the only ones selling some unique pieces, designed by revolutionary designers. So, around the store it’s easy to see long lines of costumers and collectors from all around the world waiting for the launch of exlusive collections of brands such as Nike QS, Jordan Brand, Adidas Consortium, Yohji Yahmamoto Y-3, and Vans Vault.

The Wish store is located in the center of one of the most vibrant and edgy districts of Atlanta. Lauren Amos, the owner and driving force of Wish, wanted to reflect in the project the soul of a city that’s always draw visitors with very different lifestyles. So, he turned to two of the best exponents of the NYC design: the architect Raphael Berkowitz and the designer Sam O’Donuahe.

The aim of the owner was to create a space where three different elements could blend. The first ones are chaos and anarchy, to reflect the raw energy of the city. Then, order and repetition, recalling the original purpose of the building, which used to be the city hall. And lastly, a sense of contemporaneity, in order to honour the revolutionary brands hosted in the store.

We highly recommend visiting the website of the Wish store to get an idea of this hub of creativity and uniqueness in the center of Atlanta.

 

It seems almost impossible, taking a narrow space and amplifying it beyond its limits, right? At Italmodular, with our overhead sliding shelving, modular shelving and floor sliding shelving, we found a way to do it.

Take a look at Italmodular’s blog to find out more about our products and how to use them for any kind of need. We’ll wait for you to start together a project of reorganization and rationalization of your workplace.