Old Navy Dressing Rooms - Source?

Hey Y'all -
I was shopping with the kiddies yesterday at Old Navy, when I noticed the dressing rooms. They are so cool. Made of some sort of steel channel, in which they have inserted finished panels of particle board up to say, 7', and some sort of twin walled cellular plastic (polygal?) up from there. They would make awesome interior walls. I'm trying to find a source for these. Any of you know where I can find them?




-R.

Nothing? Anybody? Got a hint? Anything?
How about I post a picture?



-R.

Twin walled cellular plastic sounds like Panelite-
http://www.e-panelite.com

by all means, post a picture.

The metal bar/strut structure is something I looked into a while ago but, alas, I forgot the name. I'm pretty sure you can order it from McMaster's web site.

Ha- but be careful heading into the dressing room with a camera- people might stare!:huh:

I'm going over Fri. to get some pics. Yeah, I'm anticipating some stares, at least....



-R.

Just turn off the flash. take pics from inside the dressing room, not standing in the dressing room hallway. You could likely get tossed out taking pics of the dressing rooms, so keep that in mind.
Your kids will be embarrased that their dad got thrown out of Old Navy because he was taking pictures in the dressing rooms.
:grin:

You know, this is LA, so a few of the patrons may actually WANT to be in the pictures!




-R.

OK! No major incidents with security or anything.....whew! Here are the pics. This stuff is SO cool, and would make awesome room dividers or closet doors. It's so functional, if you notice the slots for inserting shelves, you could do just about anything with it. If anyone has an idea how to find out how to contact the manufacturer, or if you have a contact at GAP, Inc. please let me know. Otherwise, I have to try to find a way to make them myself, and while that is doable, it's not my first choice. -R.

This looks like a store fixture system. Start googling for store display fixtures and see what you come up with.

maybe some good hunting here...
http://www.nasfm.org/membersearch/search.cfm

brooks...
yes, good stuff! I hope to hear back from some of the folks I found through that site. Thanks...

Still, if anyone has specific info, please post it! Thank you.


-R.

i i spent most of my life doing store fixtures and i think what you are looking at is custom. we did stuff like that all the time and i will tell you that retail designers love to use custom stuff. i don't know who builds old navy's fixtures now but i think that Ontario Store Fixtures did them at one time... at any rate, store fixtures are way over priced. you will be hard pressed to find a big shop working for big customers like old navy that are willing to do small residential jobs. fixture makers are just odd animals. big money supper fast lead times, endless renovations, oh how i love doing small jobs now!

OK, so it is custom... thats what i do! i think your idea of using it for room dividers and what not is dead on! the basic design is more than simple. it is nothing more than frames and panels. then you add options... slotted shelf standards, wheels ect... in the end it would be nothing more than the frame pieces that you could bolt together and then insert your panels. the panels could be the thing that makes them ultra custom. shipping of the frames would be easy. shipping the panels would bump up the cost a bit, but why could you not buy your panels local??? anyway, i could make them. i think it would be a cool item for open style homes.

OK Ian, I appreciate your information on the subject. Of course it does makes sense that this suff is not readily available to the residential consumer. I like the idea of you making the frames for me, and I could supply the panels.... it is easy, as you say.
I suppose I was hoping, and still hoping, that this type of system would be available to the consumer, much in same way the industrial shelving system was used in this house:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/garden/07upcher.html?ex=1128916800en=5a2b373e365c324cei=5070
But when the time comes, if I haven't found anything, you're the man!



-R.