The last post this year here at Reception Desk World, and my penultimate bit of reception desk curation. So I thought the above images of a 'Medical Spa' to be appropriate for this festive season, yes this is novelty yet it is craft too. Constructed by Palo Arte wood carvers and makers of quality timber interior products, based in Sylmar, California. The auroric hidden lighting accentuates artfully its cool glacial relief and the subtle colouring of the mock surface.Thanks to Palo Arte as they lead me to the architects of the previous post.
An economically functional veneer paneled reception desk sitting within a geodesic based internal thoroughfare designed by MASS Architecture, Los Angeles.Obviously the emphasis is on the internal structures but it would have been great to have seen this reception desk constructed from a similar partial geodesic styled structure but I'm content with this unfussy realisation set within this walnutian haven. For me it has a more than a soupçon of Frank Haverman to its handling of materials and forms.
Don't dismiss this as mere novelty as this is a serious piece of cabinetry. Just look at the materials - Curly English Sycamore, highly figured Tamo and selected mahogony. 'A custom reception desk designed and built for a computer recycling company in Las Vegas, NV. Designed to be viewed from all sides aswell as above'.Designed by Doug Turner and Stephen Evens and fabricated by Doug Turner and Stephen Evens & Shop. Turner Custom Furniture of Atlanta (but will deliver throughout the US).I presume it is an American 38 pocket wheel but then I'm no croupier.
A Tom Dixon reception desk for The Paramount Club who occupy the 31st,32nd & 33rd floors respectively of Seifert's Centre Point. I experienced the what seemed then teleportingly fast lifts in this building a number of years ago . I can't remember why I was there other than that I'm a view addict and I never give up the chance to gawp out across London's skyline at such a height . Stephen Fry famously Twittered from a dysfunctional lift going no where at the 26th floor while visiting this swish club. 'Going up' with another Dailyicon.
A surprisingly glitzy realisation for such an academic institution as the American Chemistry Council but we endorse its luminous craft - monolithically crystalline and doubly strengthened by a simple graphic cluster of line and type as a backdrop. The reception desk in Washington DC was designed by Fox Architects utilising the incredible products manufactured by Sensitile . The designers in this case specified the Scintilla product and produced a complimentary lighting show within the institutions reception.
I've been a Hilti user for about 20 years not just for their product looks, and the label, but mainly for consistent reliability, sorry I sound like an advert! Well this interior scheme by Metroquadrado is the apotheosis of what an interior should be like for such a company - a corporally creative wash of royal red and architecturally engineered - robust details making for an enjoyable space. The lettering on the reception desk appears to have been mechanically chiselled out which creates a monumental effect. Get the full range @ plusMood. Photos by Bernardo Portugal/ Susan Saraiva.
I seem to be discovering Greece as a hotbed of design for Reception Desk World, the creative place to be in Europe, that I otherwise did not to realise. This calm and cool toned scheme is for a health check centre in Thessaloni and was created by Architectural practice NoScale . The lead architect on the project was Monia Paschou who utilised a modest combination of white lacquered MDF and etched glass to great effect. Although there are plenty of clever details to mention I particularly like the the ribbon of white being taken for a walk down through the interior. I'd be quite happy to live in this environment ! Thanks to Architect Nikolas Plastiras of NoScale (formerly of Westminster and Kingston University in the UK) for sending in the images.
