Classic with a Twist: Commercial

The Cost of Comfort: WFAA News Feature

I got quite the kick out of this news story! If you read my e newsletter today, you know
that I had my knee scoped yesterday and have been bed bound for the last day...
which means a lot of television!

The 6:00 pm news came on and the very first feature story was called
"Focus on Furniture"
and showed a picture of this chair~ which I instantly recognized!

It is made by Indiana Furniture and my fingers were crossed that the news story was
not a negative one... but it actually made me chuckle.

Dallas City Hall purchased 16 of these for over $540 each and taxpayers are having a fit! Council members raised taxes this year and laid off 46 workers. They said the chair purchase doesn't "sit" well with some council members... hee hee.
Other members were positive about the purchase stating that someone fell over in one of
the old chairs and it broke (oops)... and that these were adjustable.

Now, since they are there to make such important decisions for the
City of Dallas,

shouldn't their chairs be comfortable?

I proposed the Energi chair shown above to a commercial client, however, we thought that the Elation was a much better fit for this sleek Law Firm located in Frisco.

Must have been a slow night for news in Dallas...

From the tone of the newscast, I think that Dallas City Hall will be keeping those great chairs for many years to come... they want to get their money out of them!

If you need some new chairs for your office, you know where to find them:)

Until next time,

Traci

Images via* Indiana Furniture, Moi, WFAA

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Comments: 1

Local Plano Dermatologist gets a Makeover!

Okay, maybe not a facial makeover, but a spacial makeover... (reaching??!).

Still getting back into the groove from vacation and am happy to say that I completed another commercial installation this week...this time at a dermatologist office in Plano. While I love designing residential projects, corporate spaces are right up there with them! At times, we can step out of the ~~botox~~ box a bit more- and for Dr. Skin, I believe we did!

For the record, the ultimate goal for Dr. Skin was to provide his clients the most comfortable chairs without breaking the budget. We both agree that we tried every known chair to man but in the end... nailed it!

As most design projects begin, I started with completing a computerized floor plan to determine the maximum amount of seating we could include in the waiting room while still allowing adequate traffic flow. With four options presented, Dr. Skin chose this plan-

Now, that we got the nuts and bolts out of the way, I was wide open for inspiration direction with this project with the exception of the carpet, walls and artwork. So I chose an existing piece that I loved and rolled from there... here it is-

The turquoise, aqua and gold lead the way which lead me to this beautiful fabric combination:

Selections from Fairfield Chair, Best and Hammer Collection

Here is where we started...

Before

And where we ended:

After

Changes include more seating, more storage, more comfort and style!

(side note: Spiderman kid's nook was also existing:)

Check out the additional before and after shots of the reception area:

Before

After

Before

After

Interestingly enough when I was at Market a few weeks ago, I did happen upon the same color combination in a showroom and knew that I had struck gold with this project!