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Working closely with the design team throughout the project, we have been able to create state-of-the-art office space with showroom designed by graphic designer and art director Peter Saville and architect David Adjaye.
The showroom space, which sits bellow the offices, has been kept bare with specialist joinery ‘cells’ that pull out from the walls displaying the Kvadrat catalogue of fabrics. The only furniture items are long concrete tables with benches and stools, intended for meeting and dining place for clients.
Part of the original concrete floor was painstakingly removed in order to create a dramatic, singular hall-like space, used for events. The central staircase has been designed to resemble a piece of furniture as well as a place to sit to view film projections on the opposite wall.
The stairway is lined with a spectrum-coloured glass balustrade, which saves the space from being too industrial.
In sunlight it reflects vivid splashes of changing colour onto the concrete walls.
All these works were carried out whilst over 30 other residents, (both commercial and private) where in occupation.
This project is not a run-of the mill thing and is a superb example of what can be done when you have a positive client, quality management and control on site and a willingness from the whole team to create something that we can all be proud of.
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