If the trends reports are to be believed, the executive office is going the way of the floppy disc, film photography or even last year's iPhone. Open offices with benching workstations, collaborative tables and nap rooms are replacing private offices in today's workplaces, or so we see with some high profile office remodels.
But the thing about trends is that not all follow them, or at least that is evidenced by the big, bold and traditional executive office furniture underway in the WallGoldfinger factory. No doubt we are building collaborative tables and benching workstations as well, but we also have several large office projects recently completed or in the works and are getting regular requests to quote corporate office projects.
These are traditional desks, standing desks, wall units, shelving and credenzas with refrigeration all melded together into the ultimate corporate office make-up. Not to mention a private meeting table. They feature veneer; little to no metal, glass or stone; and traditional detailing. It is the type of furniture one would expect in the stereotypical top floor CEO office of old and, despite what the trendsetters tell us, apparently of today.
It's furniture we don't often get to see installed (thus our concept illustrations above). But like those beautiful veneer tables we showed you last month, it is furniture we like to build. It balances the white glass and gray veneers so commonplace today. It reminds us for whom we work - the world's biggest and best.
So will the napping room ever replace the CEO's office as the only private space in today's open corporate spaces? Today we tell you, "No, or at least not everywhere for sure." Next month when it is all benching workstations in the factory, we might sway the other way but in the meantime we're enjoying flexing our woodworking muscles on some furniture of old.
Now where is my film camera? That thing took some great pictures and challenged my artist's spirit.
John
John Wall
CEO
