The Disturbance Reception Desk

Richard Hart the managing director of "Disturbance" an upbeat advertising company here in Durban, KZN approached me to come up with a concept for a new reception desk for their offices. The building is an old Victorian colonial double storey house that has been left untouched on the outside but transformed inside into a modern open plan space with bridges linking mezzanine working areas furnished in a slick minimalist style.
My first though was to do an old fashioned reception desk to blend with the oustide of the building, to look as if it was the only piece of furniture that they kept from the old house ...
This idea developed to making a reception desk that referenced the modern concept of interactivity of flat screens and advertising, but to create it in a 20th century mechanical style with gears/handles - with the overall look to be that of an old piano that Frank Lloyd Wright might have designed. To allow Hart and his team of graphic designers to play a part, I had them execute 3 different designs to suit the 3 faces of the desk. This was a perfect job for me, allowing me to collaborate with designers of a different disciplines... thanks to Richard
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