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Officelayout 169
aprile-giugno 2017
Like being at home in the office
The office seen at the latest edition of
Workplace 3.0
has shaded contours, and resembles the home more than ever, to
respond to “activity based” and informal styles of working. The
repercussions for products
involve extreme
simplification and understatement of forms, combined with research on materials and colors. While wood and soft-touch
matte finishes are the noble features of the new products, there are also the saturated tones of nature.
With respect to past years
, there seems to be less desire to astonish with ‘over-the-top’ items; the focus is on rigor,
especially at the top of the range. Striking details and fine craftsmanship are now the strong points.
Desks
lose their
connotation as operative, managerial or for meetings, and return to the status of a simple table, including bench
solutions for multiple persons, and more classic writing desks which have made a comeback to furnish home offices, but
now also respond well to new smart working policies, or to furnish focus room and corporate libraries where people can
get away from the crowd for activities requiring concentration.
Work seating
is also losing lots of its technical trimmings,
in favor of greater aesthetic appeal. After all, the greater mobility of workers outside and inside the office, with the
resulting reduction of the hours spent seated at an assigned workstation, has led to changes in the ergonomic approach
to products.
Seats for break areas and shared spaces
are organized in collections based on close coordination of
their elements, leading to synergic systems of shells, bases, accessories, materials and color variants, for free
combinations of great flexibility in their interpretation of the space in which they are inserted. The hybridization of
offerings continues, flanking traditional office furnishings with
soft seating
elements for combinations, equipped in many
case with high sound-absorbing backs to create islands of silence in open-plan areas or informal zones.
Mobile partitions
break away from the building to create architecture inside architecture, closed areas of limited size,
which in the more advanced versions are rendered autonomous in terms of physical plant, since they have their own
lighting and ventilation systems. More than products,
the companies
seemed to be communicating messages, first of
all the ability to work on projects with custom solutions that take their cue from the world of contract.
If we take this already charted course and consider the fact that in spite of the presence of big Italian and foreign
names, the event in Milan was not able to truly represent the sector as a whole, a question comes to mind:
does it
still make sense to separate the office biennial from the context of the Salone del Mobile?
1.
La serie
Dotbox
di
Dieffebi
si arricchisce di un
elemento con fioriera avente doppia funzionalità:
purificare l’aria e donare un tocco di stile
all’ambiente. Grazie alla tecnologia Itair®, che
prevede una ventilazione meccanica forzata, la
pianta diventa un filtro. Garantisce invece la
diffusione di musiche di sottofondo il sistema di
diffusione audio dell’azienda Checkup Itaudio
2.
Leggero e sobrio,
Arcos
di
Arper
evoca
l’elegante ritmo degli archi attraverso il segno
grafico dei braccioli in alluminio che richiamano
due curve appaiate. Ideata per gli spazi pubblici,
la collezione comprende una sedia, una poltrona
e un divano. Disponibile a partire dal 2018
3.
Pochi pezzi per molti usi. Così nasce
Base
di
Ares Line
, un sistema autostabile, fonoassorbente
e modulare, per creare spazi di relazione o
individuali protetti negli uffici open space. Può
essere composto a piacere secondo le necessità
come schermo acustico, seduta o spazio riunione.
Frigerio design
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