The office was designed in association with Scott Brownrigg and interior designer Pernille Stafford. The building spanning 4,500 square feet features a show case reception area at the front of the street with various images created by Brownrigg, including Dan Flavin’s art installation of a yellow fluorescent tube light titled ‘The Diagonal of May 25, 1963’, to create themes for different areas.
The structure comprises an informal entrance section which opens up to a room with a floor made of shiny flow crete and illuminated by a barrisol ceiling. An informal meeting area is created by a media wall controlled through an iPad interface adjacent to the space as well as a pair of Alcove sofas. The room is illuminated with recessed bright lighting to further intensify the flavour and the beauty.
Other features of the building include a pair of themed meeting rooms equipped with advanced audio visual equipment. One meeting room is funky while the other has a serious undertone. The rooms will serve The Interiors Group team as well as their clients. The Funky meeting room comprises tri folding doors connecting to the reception area to facilitate presentations or larger gatherings for conducting events of the firm. The meeting room features a long Fritz Hansen glass table with white leather back FK chairs by Walter Knoll. The designer has also pioneered the use of lit timber wall by Luminoso in the UK in the room which features an infrared photograph originally shot in the early sixties to act as the meetings’ backdrop.
The facility incorporates a transition zone comprising colourful acrylic artworks which opens out to the break out area. Two tone acrylic boxes of various sizes and depths connects the areas with artistic pieces of past and future iconic building silhouettes of London and Abu Dhabi facing the boxes.
The building also features a refreshment area with a four-capacity solid stand alone bench in addition to materials like smoked glazing and matt black surfaces placed across the entire areas to create reflections and distortions. Further, there are assorted sizes of the pendant mirror balls created by Tom Dixon which hangs from the ceiling and generates reflections and distortions while leading to the second level.
The building also features a serious looking meeting room adorned with classic Oxford chairs by Fritz Hansen, a Methis ceramic top meeting table as well as a Smithfield black light from Flos.
There is the engine room as one climbs up the large open staircase. The engine room houses cellular offices and meeting rooms incorporating open plan bench desking by Methis with an accommodation capacity of 45.
The project has been completed within 10 weeks.
