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The company specialises in financial advice to women and has an all-female staff. So, Natale took the opportunity to feminise the workplace, picking up on an international trend for colour, floral patterns, ornament, curves and period revival furniture. In fact, there is a subtle blend of the decorative and the sleek. The break-out table and stools are colourful, but minimal, while streamlined, white, single-bench workstations enjoy and easy connection with the generously floral Tord Boontje fabric on the partitioning.
Natale has made liberal use of Boontle with wallpaper, light and ornamnets, transfers the 'Loius' chair in reception and fabrics for the workstations and the curtain which seperated receptions and the meeting rooms from back-of-house, including a small children's playpen directly behind the reception desk.
Curved and decorative it may be, but the image from the street of the curved reception desk backed by the Boontje curtain is powerful, backed up by the photographics on the glazed meeting room walls of healthy, confident women. Again, the meeting rooms blend the cleekly functional (glazed walls and narrrow aluminium frames) with the playful and curvaceous (the Eames meeting room chairs and moulded retro tables).
In reception, the burgundy Boontje wall paper, bright orange 'Louis' chair, Moooi 'Random' lights and complementary dark tones of the wall and carpets (which echo the curves of the lights, side-tables, chairs and desk) all combine to generate a heady mix of tones, textures and shapes. The result is an environment which is full of character, the feminine with a sense of power. P.McGillick.
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