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Bank of Scotland’s flagship branch to help create a warm and welcoming space k with its own identity.
with each one offering colour hues that diffuse along the width of the plank.
Helen and Alessia also created a bespoke feature using Forbo’s Allura Wood LVT to mimic the Saltire of the Scottish Flag, which was used on the first floor in the Business Hub and on the lower ground as a central flooring design.
Allura is one of Forbo’s most popular collections. It replicates natural materials such as wood and stone, without the associated installation and maintenance costs of these materials. Featuring natural colour variations and in-register embossing structures, the Allura Wood collection provides realistic aesthetics. What’s more, as it is available in an array of installation formats, the range also enables designers to create unique flooring spaces, like the one Helen and Alessia have achieved at the Bank of Scotland.
To enhance the ‘workshop’ design concept, Helen and Alessia also wanted to create a large communal table, which would feature a graph and scale design printed onto it to replicate a tailor’s table or a drafting table. Helen continued: “After a lot of investigation and then discussions with Mark Jackson, the Key Account Manager at Forbo, we came to realise that we could have our design printed onto Forbo’s Furniture Linoleum. The exceptional quality of the print combined with the beautiful and soft finish of Furniture Linoleum, has created a wonderful and warm crafted effect. It’s exactly what we wanted to achieve.”
Forbo’s Furniture Linoleum is widely recognised for its exceptional combination of aesthetic and practical properties and holds numerous prestigious awards including the Red Dot design award, the award for Good Industrial Design and the Interzum Award. It is also a high-performing sustainability winner as it is manufactured from a very finely ground linoleum granulate, which is created from pure oxidised vegetable linseed oil and natural pine rosin, to which wood flour and colour pigments are added.
Alessia concluded: “The world of banking has changed significantly. In the Bank of Scotland’s flagship branch, customers are welcomed into spaces that have an atmosphere akin to those found in the hospitality sector. In fact, the bank has received excellent feedback from its customers, with them commenting on how warm and welcoming it is, while being easy to navigate.
“For us, we are delighted with the new design concept. We feel that the bank now has its own identity and DNA. It feels established. The colour palette, along with the warmth and richness of the finishes have all come together beautifully to create a memorable customer experience. Plus, we now have a strong design language of parts, furniture, features and finishes which we can use across the Bank of Scotland estate.”
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