Booth experiment a success

As I have mentioned previously, I was experimenting at the NY show with a booth with no tables. As it turned out, I ended up being offered a table as well...which I took happily.

As I tried to capture in the images, I effectively had a peninsula. I had a table set perpendicular to the two abutting booths. This was quite nice as it gave me a nice place to set some large/delicate items with greater safety. We picked up a second four shelf display case from Ikea. We set these back to back with book arts on one side and art bindings on the other.

We then built two towers of four of the horrid folding bookcases (I really want something/anything else). On the plus side, they have wee pins in them, so I was able to stack them as seen safely...we used 14" zip cords to fuze the cases together. In the end, they were very stable.

My father designed/built/finished the TWELVE shelves that "fit" into the open ends of each shelf (6 to a side). The net result was that I ended up with more horizontal(ish) display space than I would have had with a "full" booth (three six foot tables) in the space of two tables (12 feet).

We used the end to mount our Phreno-man piece (shown here with my exceptionally helpful assistant) and an unusual little Dwiggins' piece.

In the last image, you can probably see the glass case that is about 1.5 or so feet from the "back" of my display area. We had been told that we would have a peninsula with an aisle on both sides and at one end and really built the display to adapt to that. As it turned out, there was a large double sided 6 foot long display case effectively in the middle of the back aisle. I have a feeling the fire marshal might have had an issue with it had he seen it, but it worked out reasonably well.

Overall, the booth looked pretty good and certainly garnered the requisite number of "your booth is really lovely" comments that we use as part of our "show success" matrix.