Modern Corporate Furnishings & Fittings: The Arbor, London

Organisational Aesthetics

Clever Corporate Decor

My work as a corporate trainer/ instructor and coach this week took me for an onsite to our client in their new home in an amazing building. The Arbor Building is in Blackfriars Road in London, UK and it boasts that it is carbon neutral. There are neighbouring buildings and I’m told it is a fossil free development called Bankside Yards which is a major architectural, construction and interiors project feat. I was especially impressed at how beautifully the interiors echoed the sustainability ethos too. See the photos I took below

Ingenious shelf design detail. Textured fabric covered wall paneling. It was great to have two screens down the side two instead of just the one screen at the front.

View from the higher level floors looking at City and Millennium Bridge

Gorgeous building reception area with textured round edge sofas and natural materials used for reception furnishings and fittings.
The training room after delegates have left. My bags on chair and half eaten pane de nata (custard tart) I was munching while packing up. The glass walls are moveable to open up to accommodate 70 plus in a meeting with a stage or to turn into two smaller meeting rooms.
Very cosy chairs, light leatherette (vegan I guess) nod to traditional boardroom chair
At the front where I do my work. Novel white board with cosy straps, Notice how the cameras are housed at waist level.
I loved the gallery wall art as it looks like it is from the companies archives, showing how they started as watch makers. It is amazing how after 150 years they are still in business and today one of the FTSE 100

This visit to an old watchmaking firm has inspired a new blog series where I document beautiful images of the public reception spaces of the top FTSE 100 firms I visit. It will be interesting to discover how the office aesthetics and styling perform in an era where firms are working hard to convey and establish changes to the way their organisation behaves. This week I saw how the decor, fixtures, fittings, construction plans, feature design as well as development process all have important and powerful stories to tell that support the firm’s cultural goals,

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Regular readers will note that I continue to post to my blog weekly and you can see the links to the previous posts for May are below. The next edition of the newsletter will be emailed to you end of June.

From the blog in May

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