The great dividers

Practical solutions to dividing room space.

The Viper Screen is made by Danish company Fritzhansen and is sold at Mimo in Cork. Simple and flexible, it is made from vertical oval aluminium tubes linked by a hinge that are clicked together by hand to create a screen wall as long as you require - €1,130 for this one. The aluminium tubes are naturally anodised and have an inner sound absorbing foam filling.

E-Mimo Limited, Sandquay House, 28a Lower John Street, Cork
Tel 021-4344999

Soft Wall is sold in Haus and is a felt-covered screen available in different colours. The small size pictured here measures 190 x 100 cm and costs €3,659. Sculptural, easy to move and could best be used to define a space for a secondary purpose within a room.

The long vertical holes run right through and binding wraps around the structure. The idea is that it can also be used as a place to store important papers, magazines or anything flat.

Haus, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Tel 01-6795155

Helen Kilmartin of Minima used a black lacquered bookcase system by Italian company Tissettenta to divide part of a hall floor room in her home on Herbert Place. Behind is a sofa bed and when the double doors (positioned in line with the window) are closed, this becomes a sleepover space for guests. What you see here costs €12,000 but because it's modular, itcan be designed to fit any space, so the price is adaptable to what you need. Also available in white, green, wood and matt finishes.

Minima, 8 Herbert Place, Dublin 2.
Tel 01-6627894

Lomi's double-sided room divider by Regolo includes presses and open shelving. The modular system is available in wood finishes and 19 matt lacquer colours with doors in wood or various glass colours. The format shown in this picture costs €6,621, but prices start at €840. Black is the look of the moment in interiors but will last longer than any other colour trend, so units like these are worth the money.

Lomi, Unit 124, Baldoyle Industrial Estate, Dublin 13.
Tel 01-8397001