Portable Height Adjustable Black Steel Easel for Chalkboards and Snap Frames - 1500mm High x 536mm Wide

Set Up a Folding Display Easel Without Any Tools

This is the folding steel easel in the Displaysense range. The CBE1500 is a tripod stand in black steel that holds a board, a snap frame or a canvas up to A1. Adjustable arms grip the board and set the height it sits at, so one easel handles a small chalkboard and a full A1 frame. The three legs fold in and the whole thing flattens for a car boot or a stockroom shelf. Setting up means opening the legs and setting the arms, with no tools at all. At just under six kilos the easel is a one-handed carry, and the black steel wipes clean between bookings. Note that a board or frame is not supplied, only the stand itself. Best suited to galleries, trade stands and hospitality venues where the same easel travels between rooms and has to look presentable in each of them.

Why a Portable Steel Easel Suits a Travelling Display

• Five set heights on the arms: The arms lock at one of five positions, so a board can be lifted for people on their feet or dropped for a seated room. Fixed settings rather than free sliding also mean a run of easels can be matched exactly, instead of each one being eyeballed to roughly the same level.
• Holds boards up to A1: A1 is the ceiling, which covers snap frames, mounted canvases, foam boards and chalkboards at the sizes most venues already own. Anything inside that range sits in the arms exactly as it comes, with no packing out underneath and nothing trimmed down at the edges to make it fit the stand.
• Tripod base for indoor floors: Three points settle on a floor more readily than four, so the easel finds its footing on tile, timber and carpet without rocking on the spot. That counts in a gallery or a hotel foyer, where a floor is rarely as level as it looks and a fourth leg would sit proud of the other three.
• Opens and closes in seconds: The legs swing out, the arms set, and the easel is standing. Nothing screws together, no allen key comes in the box and there is no sequence to follow, so somebody who has never handled one can put it up without being shown how it works first.
• Folds flat for the boot: The legs close in and the frame flattens down, so the easel travels in a car rather than needing a van, and stores upright against a stockroom wall between events instead of taking up floor space that could hold stock. Two or three of them stack together in the same gap.
• Black steel, not a timber frame: Steel keeps the section slim while holding a board steady, and the black finish sits back so the artwork or the message carries instead. Steel also wipes clean at the end of a service or a show, which matters in a room where hands and sleeves brush past all evening.

Where a Tripod Display Stand Fits Rooms of Every Kind

Most display kit ends up staying in the van, and it is usually the stuff that needs building. This easel opens by hand in about the time it takes to read this sentence. You swing the three legs out, set the arms to your board, and the stand is up. Packing away is the same job the other way round. The frame folds flat enough to lie in a car boot next to the boards it was holding. No tools, no bolts and nobody else needed at either end, which counts for a lot when the hall is emptying and everyone is queuing for the loading bay. Most people get the first one up without asking anybody how it works, which tells you a fair amount about the design on its own.

Where the board sits matters more than most people expect. A seating plan at a wedding wants to be low, because guests read it standing right in front of it. A menu by a door works better set high, at the height someone glances at on the way past. The arms on this easel lock at one of five heights, so you put the board where the room needs it rather than where the stand happens to hold it. They take anything up to A1, and because those settings are notched rather than free sliding, you can set several easels to exactly the same level instead of judging each one by eye.

Floors are rarely as flat as they look, and gallery timber, village hall parquet and hotel carpet all have a lean in them somewhere. Three legs cope with that far better than four. A tripod settles wherever you put it, where a fourth leg leaves a wobble somebody has to pack out with a beer mat. The frame itself is steel, which keeps the sections slim while still holding a loaded board steady. Steel also wipes down at the end of a night, which you notice in a bar or a hall where sleeves and hands have been brushing past the stand all evening. The black finish keeps everything plain, so your board gets the attention rather than the frame under it.

The easel arrives on its own, so there is no board, no frame and no canvas in the box with it. Some of the photographs show a snap frame in place, but that is there to show you the stand in use rather than what you will receive. It is worth knowing before you order. The upside is that you pick the board to suit your room. Chalkboards, snap frames and mounted work all sit in the same arms, so whatever you already own goes straight on the easel without anything needing to be replaced first. Buy a board later and you can pick it for the room rather than for the stand holding it.

What Ships with This Easel

• 1 x portable black steel easel with adjustable arms