Director’s office and desks on metal frames

We made director’s office furniture and staff desks to measure for a whole floor with panoramic glazing: places by the windows, an office with a meeting table, cabinets and pedestals. The task was to furnish the floor as one set while making the director’s office different from the team rooms, without the furniture blocking the floor-to-ceiling windows. Chairs and lighting were not part of our scope.

Desks by the windows

A staff desk is a desktop in a light oak decor on grey metal legs shaped as a closed rectangular frame. There are no solid sides, so the desk does not block light from the floor-to-ceiling window. L-shaped places stand by the columns and in the corners: a return joins the main desk at a right angle. Where two people sit face to face, a panel in the same decor stands between them. A flip-lid cable port is set into the top. We made desks on A-shaped legs, lighter in outline, for a showroom of finishing materials.

Director's office

The director's office has a different palette: a grey aged-wood decor. The director's desk stands on panel sides rather than metal; a front of horizontal slats screens it from the visitor, and a low return with open niches joins it at the side. A meeting table on a metal frame and a two-tier coffee table by the window stand apart. That gives zoning in one room with no partitions: work, a meeting, a talk in the armchairs.

Cabinets and pedestals

Each place has a mobile pedestal with three drawers and a lock in the top one. The staff rooms have cabinets with solid doors below and glazed doors above. The director's office has a document cabinet: a carcass in the grey wood decor, fronts in a concrete decor, two doors of tinted glass and long bar handles. Another example is an open-plan office with wood furniture. An office in a space with character is the desks, private offices and reception in a brick-walled loft.

What height and depth a work desk should have is covered in our article on the EN 527 standard. A set like this suits a company that furnishes a whole floor and wants the director's office to differ from the shared rooms. More on the custom furniture for business page.