• Building Trust – The First Step Of Creating A Successful Workplace

    posted by jono in Trends on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

    As many organisations look at redesigning their workplaces and shifting into flexible working approaches like activity-based working and teleworking, a structured change management program can have a big impact on how well employees and teams embrace such changes. Flexible workplaces are often positioned as promoting positive employee and business outcomes such as collaboration and trust behaviours [...]

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  • Design Originals Versus Reproductions

    posted by jono in Uncategorized on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

    I met with a client recently who has invested massively in a brand new office and is now undertaking large scale fit out and refurbishment. We met to look at new space and discuss what we can offer in terms of loose/fitted furniture and seating for the new offices as our client is very keen [...]

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  • Facebook Campus

    posted by jono in Trends on Monday, March 4th, 2013

    Would you like to work here? Facebook offers staff free food, laundry and bikes on the campus and everyone can play whether video games or table football. An in house screen printing department is quite novel – would be great to get your hands dirty!

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  • Office Design – New Trends

    posted by jono in Trends on Monday, March 4th, 2013

    Research indicates that no single type of office space accomplishes productivity targets across both individual and team-based tasks. In light of this demand, the trend of pop-up workplaces is growing to meet the need for flexible and agile office productivity. We have seen that office furniture and equipment designed with workplace flexibility in mind, is [...]

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  • Working from home v office locations

    posted by jono in Uncategorized on Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

    So the age-old debate about flexible working and working from the office has been front-page news due in part to Marissa Mayer the CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo made the decision that working from home is no longer viable and that as a business Yahoo workers need to be “physically together” and affects anyone with arrangements [...]

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  • Office Snapshots

    posted by jono in New Project on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

    We love the Office Snapshots website and we are thrilled that one of our projects in London has been featured! Please take a look at what we created for one of our long standing Icelandic clients the shipping giant Eimskip at their Golden Square office location in Soho, London. Office Snapshots This project saw us [...]

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  • Orgatec Round Up

    posted by jono in Trade Fairs on Thursday, November 8th, 2012

    So another Orgatec has come and gone and what busy fair it was this year compared to previous years – looks like manufacturers were really making statements about the contract office furniture industry in 2012. 622 companies from 35 countries from around the worlds exhibited at the leading trade fair for contract office furniture manufacturers. [...]

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  • London Design Festival 2012

    posted by jono in Trade Fairs on Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

    If you like design and drool over innovative new contract furniture this is your month! If it’s September, it must be the London Design Festival. In ten short years, this innovative programme of creativity-focused events, exhibitions and talks, held in one of the world’s major creative hubs, has become a firm fixture in the international [...]

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  • Orgatec 2012 Cologne October 23-27

    posted by jono in Trade Fairs on Friday, May 11th, 2012

    The worlds largest trade fair dedicated to contract office furniture is again on its way in October held in Cologne at the famous Koelnmesse, spread over 5 massive halls with over 105,000 sqm of floor space. In 2012 the fair will once again generate momentum while paving the way for pioneering advances, demonstrating its role [...]

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  • Death of the Traditional Office

    posted by jono in Uncategorized on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

    The world of work is changing, and along with it the traditional office. A new study by the Unwired consultancy found many large companies are adopting flexible workplace strategies to save costs. The study, which was commissioned by the office chain Regus, concludes: “In the future, companies will focus their strategy on a more flexible [...]

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  • Frida Chair by Pedrali Wins Award

    posted by jono in Awards on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

    Industrial designer Odoardo Fioravanti created the wooden “Frida” chair for Italian furniture-maker Pedrali – and last year it won the “Compasso d’Oro”, the design Oscar. Today, “Frida” is to be found in several renowned Design Museums worldwide. Moreover you will find Pedrali’s products in a series of outstanding international reference projects. For example, Pedrali’s best [...]

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  • Motionlabs New Offices

    posted by jono in New Project on Friday, March 16th, 2012

    We recently completed a project for our website developers Motionlab who moved from their old office space to a new purpose built space at Citygate, Preston. The brief was to design and supply contemporary office furniture, seating, conference furniture and storage, which not only looked fantastic but also, offered great value. We selected a new [...]

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  • Fit For Business – New Emel Reception Desk

    posted by jono in New Project on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

    We have recently completed a lovely project for Lee Carter Health and Fitness Centre in Clitheroe. The site is undergoing a major refit and the new reception area had to be bright, contemporary and welcoming. Working with the interior designer we designed and supplied a stunning curved high gloss Emel reception desk featuring a low [...]

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  • Great trade for FX Pro

    posted by jono in New Project on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

    We supplied FX Pro with a compact but stunning Valde reception desk complete with LED lights and storage upon opening new offices in the City Of London. The pastel White reception desk was supplied in 2 weeks from point of order so the guys at FX Pro were ecstatic that we could deliver so quickly [...]

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  • Smiles All Round At Dental Practice

    posted by jono in New Project on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

    MSL Interiors recently completed a small compact bespoke reception desk project for a growing dental practice in Harley Street. We were required to propose a reception desk for the practice which not only encompassed a low level DDA section but also a wrap around desktop element behind the desk to accommodate more users. The desk [...]

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  • MSL in Pole Position with installation at Silverstone

    posted by jono in New Project on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

    We recently supplied Margolis Office Furniture with a stunning 7.2m black Emel reception desk with brushed aluminium kick plate for one of their clients based at the Silverstone race track. The Emel reception unit featured additional side return elements at either end to allow for printers and fax machines to be kept of the main [...]

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  • Ice Cold In Golden Square

    posted by jono in New Project on Friday, October 21st, 2011

    We are able to work closely with clients and their architects to deliver a complete furniture package using standard and bespoke elements which is demonstrated with one of our long term clients, Eimskip. Eimskip opened a new HQ in central London in prestigious offices and required a scheme that reflected their ambitions and company culture with [...]

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  • Not quite 7th Heaven – more like 9th!

    posted by jono in New Project on Thursday, October 20th, 2011

    Our installation team have done a super job installing a bespoke 6m high gloss white reception desk for a client on the 9th floor which had to be carried up as too big for the lift! Our client BT Office originally supplied another counter similar only larger to a customer of today’s clients who after [...]

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  • Valde Reception Desk Range Enhanced

    posted by jono in New Products on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

    The increasingly popular Valde modular reception desk range which features LED lights and funky high gloss laminates has just been improved again with the addition of new wood MFC colours. The new colours are Chestnut and Canadian Oak and offer even more flexibility to the contemporary Valde reception desk range, Valde boasts a wide choice [...]

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  • New Wins At Epping Forest College

    posted by jono in New Project on Monday, October 17th, 2011

    MSL Interiors have installed two freestanding bespoke reception desks, workstations and storage for Epping Forest College further strengthening our position as a leading supplier to the education sector. The Emel reception desks supplied are positioned at the main reception for students and visitors and also in the library area providing the staff a large amount [...]

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  • Gold For Our Emel Reception Desk

    posted by jono in New Project on Monday, October 17th, 2011

    MSL Interiors have recently provided a very large Emel reception desk to Morgan Sindall for the Basildon Sporting Village a £38 million PPP scheme which delivers a unique energy efficient sporting hub for Basildon Council. The Emel reception was designed with Morgan Sindall’s architects and encompasses a high degree of bespoke design with its illuminated [...]

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  • New Project for IT Works

    posted by jono in New Project on Friday, September 23rd, 2011

    When asked by IT Works Recruitment to provide a cost effective furniture package for their rapidly expanding NW operations we jumped at the challenge. The client spec was clear from the offset and being a young and dynamic company they wanted the new office and new office furniture to be bright, fresh and funky which [...]

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  • New Flora chair

    posted by jono in New Products on Friday, May 20th, 2011

    Launched at this years Milan Saloni exhibition FLORA, designed by Donatella Santangelo and manufactured by Area Declic: a cockpit-shaped chair characterized by tubular steel frame covered with an innovative technical three-dimensional honeycomb fabric, also suitable for outdoor use. It is a winner of the ONLY FOR WOMEN international design competition held for new female designers. [...]

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  • COINMA launching in MSL Showroom

    posted by jono in New Products on Friday, May 20th, 2011

    MSL Interiors is pleased to announce that we will be featuring Coinma products in our showroom after becoming the authorised London agent. COINMA is one of Spain’s oldest and leading contract furniture manufacturers founded in 1964 and they have a firm commitment towards a modern, calculated design employing top quality finishes. COINMA’s ranges offer flexible [...]

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