Vinyl Station

The Vinyl Station story begins in 2020 when the Geelong, Victoria-based company went looking for a record cabinet made sustainably and designed so you could flip through a few records and play at waist height. The fruitless search left only one option ... build a solution themselves.

So, we played around with some of my own designs. And decided on two flipping buckets at the top was ideal, with a turntable bench, and two rows of storage space underneath to vertically stack vinyl. Another decision was to place two bookshelf speakers within the unit, to create a single storage, functional and visual solution. We worked on these sketches for a few weeks.

The early prototypes were produced from Builder's Board offcuts sourced from a local demolisher. The result, says the company, was that “vinyl was played much more often. The record sleeve artwork and information was being read and checked out more. The television was turned off, and Spotify was less often on (playing the same old playlists). Not only was vinyl played much more often, we were digging through the entire collection and playing albums that have rarely been played.”