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that everyone had bought into the direction of the project. Everyone embraced this collaborative process and SpaceInvader produced everything from hand-drawn sketches to full 3D digital environments to make sure the designs fitted that vision exactly.
Key elements included an immediate sense of arrival, straight into an area where people naturally come together; plenty of moveable screens so that meetings could be held anywhere in the office; great spaces for collaboration as well as spaces for the company’s partners; great IT; great refreshment facilities and comfortable, residential styling for a home-from-home feel. Te material treatment included warm timber tones; blue and auburn upholstery finishes and a feature deep blue paint finish set against the predominant neutral off- white. Tere are also neutral and textured wallpapers; deep blue and mottled grey acoustic finishes; carpet tiles in a mixture of charcoal grey and beige and a surface finishes, including marble, grey and black laminate, along with black-stained ply.
Te business lounge feel is elegant, neutral and natural with feature joinery storage and a shelving unit with acoustic panel infills, providing framed views through and beyond to Manchester’s skyline. Curved lounge chairs from Hayche and occasional tables by Muuto and Ferm Living create a comfortable visitor setting upon arrival, whilst artwork and dressing items provide visual interest. Te food and beverage area features a curved light fitting, suspended over a high informal meeting table and a mix of marble/stone and timber textures, combined with matt colours, for a contemporary and timeless materiality. Black-legged meeting table chairs are the Harbour Counter Chair by Menu, upholstered in a grey Kvadrat fabric. Tis space also features ‘stepped’ coving with integrated LED strip lighting and textured wallpaper to connect with the central joinery and frame the elevation. Corner glazing creates purposeful, framed views into the meeting rooms. Te area also contains a moveable AV screen from Boss Design set on an upholstered furniture unit, for when the space is needed for presentations.
THE TEAM
Interior design SpaceInvader
Enigma lighting Lamorbey Associates
Furniture Hayche; Muuto; Ferm Living; Menu; Normann Copenhagen; Another Brand
Moveable AV screen Boss Design
Te boardroom is the most formal area in the scheme and features executive meeting chairs and an oak boardroom table set on three conical-shaped legs, with integrated power, from Andreu World. A feature curved light fitting is suspended over meeting table, while linear- formed acoustic tiles with chamfered edge details frame the AV screen and provide a sound absorbing finish. An oak-finish credenza in the space is by Another Brand. Feature ‘stepped’ coving with integrated LED strip light and deep blue wall paint matches the acoustic panels and ties the elevation and materiality together. For the main open plan space, furniture includes smart desking furniture with warm timber tops and a black leg accent finish, plus a feature shelving screen with low-level cupboards and acoustic panels. Stained ply joinery panels form divides to the booth-style seating with fixed upholstered seat backs. Te space also features an informal high meeting table with integrated power and a wall-mounted AV screen with write-on, wipeable wallpaper for collaboration and presentation, with a dozen counter height chairs from Normann Copenhagen. Gary Davison, partner at Tosca Debt Capital, commented on the final result: ‘Te final design is strategic and truly reflects our culture and identity. It’s exactly what we were looking for: warm and welcoming for both our team and our clients and with a seamless spatial flow. Te look is crisp and sophisticated and, most importantly, offers us as a business the future-proofed flexibility we need to move forward.’
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