Нужно ли делать vip-переговорные?Where should a boss work: in his own office or with everyone else? How can this affect his image? Expert Alexey Essi-Ezing told us about trends and directions in office design Who said that an office should be boring, gray and decorated in a strict style? Today, individuality and creativity come to the fore. We managed to find out from Alexey Essi-Ezing, a young businessman who is also a partner and creative director of the design studio "CEOffice". Alexey Essi-Ezing, partner and creative director of "CEOffice" "CEOffice" is engaged in the organization of all types of offices and their equipment from lamps, ceiling panels and exclusive partitions to furniture made of natural veneer and solid wood of valuable species. - What should the office layout be: open-space or still offices? - Currently, offices in Moscow are divided into two main types: representative and work. The first are aimed at demonstrating the company's status to an external client, they are popularly called VIP. The second are aimed at attracting an internal client, an employee. VIP offices, as a rule, consist of a large number of reception and meeting areas, there are usually very few employees in them, and the office is part of the status of its owner. Such offices exist and, of course, will be planned in the office system. Work offices are created to increase and speed up communications between departments, as well as for quick interaction between employees. In this case, walls are literally a "barrier" to communication. Open space shows itself very well in companies with a horizontal management system, when the manager is a member of the team and you can communicate with him during the working day. Most international corporations work according to this principle, and more and more Russian companies are switching to this type of management. For the employer, an additional bonus of open space is a significant saving in rental costs. After all, it is no secret that offices require 1.5-2 times more space.
- What should all efforts be aimed at?the designer's resources and efforts: on the office lobby or on the manager's office? - The latest trend in creating a modern office is Design & Build (design and construction from one source). It is aimed at standardizing the cost of repairs per square meter and a very short execution period. It is sometimes easier for everyone, including customers, to choose a tried and tested option and replicate it in their areas. That is why all work areas, including the offices of line managers, are quite monotonous. To indicate the creativity and individuality of the company, architects and designers have less and less space. Basically, these are common areas: informal meeting rooms, reception, business center lobbies and, of course, everyone's favorite VIP zones of top managers.
- What is fashionable to put in nowbusinessmen's offices? - Fashion is a fickle thing, we are lucky, and right now we are standing at its next turning point. By the way, in interiors it is more durable than in clothes or cars - one cycle lasts about seven years. Now in fashion of interior space - eclecticism, where elements of modernism are complemented by details of high-tech style, harmoniously and comfortably combined with classical decor. The office or office of a businessman today is a respectable club, where people of the same circle meet, professing the same views on life. Here there is furniture made of solid rare wood or veneer, fabric on the walls, designer lamps, stucco and carpets appropriate for such a public. In such offices you can often find conceptual lighting solutions, and combinations of rare high-quality materials - textiles, leather, wood, steel and glass create this atmosphere.
— — What are the color trends today?are relevant for offices? - The latest trends are very simple: creating soft, cozy interiors, using rounded shapes, using natural materials and equally natural colors. The interiors themselves are transparent, absolutely clean and free of visible elements of engineering systems. Clear, straight shapes and bright, saturated colors, which were so popular just a few years ago, have definitely gone out of fashion. These and other trends can be seen with your own eyes at the Orgatec exhibition, which will be held in October this year in Cologne.
— — Does it make sense to doVIP meeting rooms? - If we are talking about representative offices, then of course it makes sense. Nowadays there are more and more "working" offices where the VIP meeting room has lost its purpose, turning into a hall divided by mobile partitions and filled with the same mobile furniture. The employer values its space and uses it to the maximum, dividing the hall into small clusters for 5-6 people. European studies show that most meetings are held in this composition, so "informal communication zones" are becoming increasingly popular, made in the form of several high cocoon sofas with roofs or high backs, complemented by charging poufs or built-in sockets, allowing you to hold short meetings without leaving your workplace.
photos and information provided by Ekaterina Aistova, PR director of the studio "CEOffice"
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