The Fondo range of café chairs and hocker bar stools has long been one of our favourites, and we feature them in projects time and time again. Our customers agree and they are popular in many areas, from staff break-out spaces to full café installations.
The high-gloss polypropylene shells come in white, lime green, orange, and anthracite, adding vibrant energy to any café or communal area.
We’re excited to share that Aerofoil Design can once again supply the full Fondo range after a brief pause in promotion. We typically specify and recommend the four-leg versions, which you can view on our website, but skid-frame models and optional seat pads are also available.
Aerofoil have samples of both Fondo bar stools and café chairs for you to try in our showroom. To arrange a visit or request more information, give us a call on 01634 304403 or leave your details, and we’ll be in touch.
Today we will take a look at one of the largest installations we’ve completed in recent years, undertaken in a few phases. Starting with the first floor in October 2019, continuing with the second floor early 2020 and finally reconfiguring some of the existing furniture on the third floor, as lockdown restrictions were eased and it was safe for our team to do so.
The design for this project evolved from an initial brief from the customer’s American architects and designers, based on plans from their other international offices. We interpreted this and presented several different product options. AJ took samples of the short-listed furniture to the site to showcase possible solutions for the customer and their architects to select from.
Assmann bench desks were chosen, which are electrically height adjustable, allowing the staff to alternate between sitting and standing to work. There were nearly 300 workstations installed, along with metal mobile pedestal drawer units fitted with bespoke seat cushions for those occasional visitors. The customer also evaluated 4 different office chairs before deciding on Wagner ergonomic seating. The vibrant colours for this project were based on the company’s corporate colours.
As well as furnishing the offices, the staff break-out room was also completed to the same high standard with a combination of dark grey café tables and metallic seating making the environment fresh and light, perfect for the staff to take time away from their desks.
The highlight of this job has to be the bespoke reception desk. We were sent an image of a similar desk from an overseas office, which the customer wanted to replicate here. Working with our specialist suppliers, we were able to provide this amazing, stylish reception desk, with a solid wood ‘surfboard’ counter top, created from multiple sections of different timbers. The users side features a height adjustable section and the reception front was completed with a wave design vinyl wrap to the architect’s design. A really spectacular image for visitors to be welcomed by when entering their building.
We were briefed by our customer who wanted to update the current managers room into a more suitable breakout area.
We proposed a couple of options and agreed that the best solution would be our Box Reception Seating. We installed two single and one double box sofa, in a Just Colour faux leather material in colour “Jazzberry” along with a Box Frosted Glass Coffee
Shown: Two one seater box sofas. One two seater box sofa. Two Sitness 5 Sitness Stools
Our customer was very pleased with the final result, and left us some very positive feedback: “Just to let you know everyone at D*** are all really so pleased with the office furniture it has really helped us to utilise our office space better.”
