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The Legrabox: Blum's Sexy Drawer System with Invisible Slides

By Rain Noe - April 10, 2014

in Furniture Design

Austria-based hardware manufacturer Blum might make the low-end hinges for Ikea's cabinets, but when it comes to their own branded product, they go for the top of the market. At Holz-Handwerk Blum was showing off their sexy Legrabox, a drawer system that provides the strength of heavy-duty drawer slides—offering both 40kg and 70kg capacities, or about 88 to 154 pounds—with the added touch that you don't have to see the darn things when the drawers are open, as they're completely concealed.

And despite the sides being sheathed in stainless steel (with an optional anti-fingerprint matte coating), each drawer side is just 12.8 millimeters thick!

With a conventional 3/4-inch material for your drawer sides plus the quarter-inch required for the slide itself, you'd ordinarily be looking at twice that thickness, plus the ugliness of the exposed slides.

Here's how the Legraboxes look in motion (and the true ID'ers among you will chuckle at the fake Wacom sketching at the beginning). Note that there are no drawer pulls required, and that the drawers auto-close after you give them a push:

Of course, if you're still too lazy to provide the little push needed to get the things open and closed, Blum also offers an electric servo-driven variant.

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Peter Fred

10 years ago

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Looks sort of like a commercial or residential drawer system really. Very thin profile if higher end cabinet manufacturers use 19mm gables. How will it look on a traditional style kitchen instead of the contemporary ones they show it on.

They don't have a push to open slide for it or push to open with soft close? The servo drive is expensive!

PS: They also make the drawers and slides for IKEA's kitchens in North America.
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michael wilson

10 years ago

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Where can I purchase the legrabox?
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