As UK’s weather reminds us we can expect better than cold and yet more rain, the seasonal demand for our deckchair browsers begins..
A few years ago, we designed a small piece of equipment best described as a print browser. Like all the best products, it sprang from a need we identified amongst the first year’s Uckfield Festival Art Trail artists. The brief was quickly defined; what was sorely needed was a lightweight holder of prints, pictures, photos etc, enabling customers to easily browse, and hopefully buy the artists’ work. Oh, and this ‘browser’ needed to fold flat for storage between events and for ease of transit.. and most importantly be cheap! Nothing on the market then quite ticked all the boxes.
We worked with those artists that year, quickly running through a series of prototypes, refining the design through testing by this experienced ‘focus group’. They inevitably became our first customers of this product, which was quickly dubbed the ‘deckchair’ browser.
We made ten, twenty, fifty.. then advertised them in a national magazine and on eBay. Because, being lightweight, durable and flat, postage was easy, so they could be dispatched cheaply and without suffering unduly in the hands of the couriers. Now, over the years, we have made many hundred, all here in our own workshop. And they have been shipped all over the British Isles as far as the Outer Hebrides, and Ireland. So if you find yourself browsing some prints in a faraway gallery looking for a holiday souvenir print, have a look to see if the browser was made in Uckfield!
We have expanded our range of specialist products from the original ‘deckchair’ browser. Apart from four sizes of floor standing browsers, we also make folding tabletop browsers, and easels similar to the Harrods one above. We are currently working on new designs for tabletop display units for prints using CNC cutting equipment, so watch this space..
Hi – I’m interested in buying a couple of table top print browsers could you email me available sizes and prices I also need a new floor standing browser as mine has collapsed on me at the weekend. Many Thanks Suzi Thompson
Hopefully your new browsers will work well for you Suzi!
Hi, I’m interested in buying table top print browsers, can you email me prices and sizes please. Thanks
Hi jane, thanks for your interest. There are details here:
https://www.uckfieldframing.co.uk/products/