Anyone recognize these display cases?

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  1. cartman5579

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    If so, please let me know what they are and where I can find them!
     

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    Based on the look of the hardware, I'd say they started life as Ikea Detolf shelves, but were incorporated into a custom build.
     
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    WTH!......nothing like Ikea cases at all.....just because it is glass?....looks more like some older store display cases.
     
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    I see these in department stores, not sure if exactly the same, but definitely the same type.
     
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    Not just the glass, but also the metal brackets holding the glass, and the handles to open the doors. Unless Ikea uses widely available hardware(which they might, I don't know). It's just that the hardware looks identical.

    EDIT: Wait, the bottom looks like it has a spring loaded click open function, which is not at all like Detolfs. Nevermind.

    Second EDIT: cartman5579, where did you find the pic? Is it possible you can just ask the person who took the pic?
     
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    Well, upon glancing at the picture it's pretty apparent that it's in Asia somewhere, almost certainly Mainland China.
    The 'DongMan' characters on the picture are in simplified characters, and there is a Year of the Snake Ultra Magnus in there.
    Products and services vary greatly in China from that of Western countries. The guy probably had somebody come in, measure his room, choose something from a catalog or from their store, and had them come in and install it. I built an office in China at one time and had it all done this way. Putting in shelves like this would almost surely be cheaper than going to Ikea, doing the measuring and shopping yourself, putting the stuff together yourself, and winding up with low make-do shelving.
    I shelved out a room when I lived here in Taiwan at another time before, but I had to do the measuring, go to the shop, take the stuff home myself, and build it myself. I paid a bit less than I would have had to in Canada, but a lot more $ than in China, and a much bigger pain in the ass.