The 1,400 square feet store located near Mina port, Abu Dhabi, marks the company’s journey of delivering design-led interior solutions for the living and workspace requirements in the UAE. The company is expected to offer sustainable design solutions for the increasingly eco-conscious businesses in the region.
The company will focus on supply and installation of office and home furniture for the contracts market, along with specializing in commercial interior fit-out. Twenty1 Denmark acts as the buying office for its Middle East counterpart.
The company’s objective is to offer design-led solutions that marry sustainability ideals with beautiful environs, says Torben Hildebrandt, managing director of Twenty1 Middle East.
Twenty1 Middle East offers full furniture decoration of offices, housing units and hotels and its customers include Cansult Maunsell, the design and engineerng service provider in the Middle East, and Good harbour.
The investors behind Twenty1 Middle East are the Scan-Thor Group and OTTO International, which manages a trading organization for a number of leading mail order and retail groups on the European market, Middle East and American markets, including the largest mail order group in the world – the Otto Group Hamburg.
Denmark’s Scan-Thor Group has more than 30 years of experience in international sourcing and supply management within furniture, ceramics and textile fashion. The Business areas of the Scan-Thor Group are product development, sourcing and supply chain consulting.
The German trading organization OTTO International (OI) has more than 40 years of sourcing experience. OI offers a wide range of products including apparel, sports, lingerie, footwear, furniture, home textiles and electrical/electronic products.
Twenty 1 Middle East will represent exclusive brands of furniture manufacturers from Europe and Asia. Top-of-the range furniture brands offered will include Dan-Form, Fumac, HAG A/S, Ege, Tvilum-Scanbirk A/S, Dieffebi, Lameirinho, LASA and Variér Furniture A/S.
