The iconic shelving system Royal System® was designed in 1948 by legendary Danish designer and manufacturer Poul Cadovius and relaunched by dk3 in 2010. It was one of the world’s first wall-mounted furniture systems and was created on the innovative principle to move the furniture off the floor and onto the walls.

The set comprises the following items:
7 x support ladders
8 x shelves (2 deep and 6 x half depth)
3 x bureau/cocktails cabinets with fold bureau doors (one with mirrored glass within)
1 x cabinet with glass sliding doors
2 x cabinets with wooden sliding doors
1 x chest of 4 drawers
a variety of pegs supports

Poul Cadovius (1911-2011) was one of the most colourful and successful people in the history of the Danish furniture industry. He was originally educated as an upholsterer but became very interested in design at an early stage, and in 1945 he established his own furniture manufacturing company: Royal System. A few years later, in 1948, he designed the iconic shelving system ROYAL SYSTEM®, followed by the award-winning SYSTEM ULTRA® in 1957 and SYSTEM CADO® in 1960. All three systems were based on a ground-breaking wall-mounted shelving concept, where the idea was to move the furniture off the floor onto the walls, leaving more space in the room.

All his life Poul Cadovius was an exceptional entrepreneur and innovator, and he achieved to take more than 400 patents during his long career. Besides designing furniture Poul Cadovius also owned a boatyard and developed many other different products such as building material and fiberglass components like the well-known (in Denmark) mushroom-formed bus shelter. And then he invented the award-winning and world-renowned System Abstracta, which was used as exhibition halls at the Cologne Furniture Fair in 1962. Poul Cadovius was indeed a man of the world and the king of furniture.

Condition report:

Great vintage condition.
One cabinet has a chip to the wood at the back. Not visible at all once on the wall. One cabinet has a repaired sliding door