Pluto Entertainment Unit

The Pluto Entertainment Unit in Natural Ash is 200cm wide, 45cm deep and 46cm high. Four doors run across the front on Hettich soft-close fittings, with cable holes cut through the back. It arrives fully assembled.

Soft-close hardware is worth naming because it is the part of a cabinet that fails first. Doors on a media unit are opened and shut daily, often with one hand and a remote in the other, and a damped hinge is the difference between a cabinet that still shuts quietly in five years and one that has started to rattle.

A water-based sealer on ash veneer keeps the timber looking pale. Solvent finishes amber over time, which turns a light ash gradually golden, so the finish specified here is the one that will still look like the photograph after a few years in a sunny room.