REGAL WORKSPAC (Page 2)

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Traversing within the office, it's not just the affluence that you notice but also the strokes of bright bold red. In the lounges the colour is resplendent in the form of couches, sofas and lounge chairs. Even the red furniture has got a touch of retro, thus transforming the formal environment into a more relaxed atmosphere.

The second floor lounge has bright red furniture which complements the brown tones of the timber deck floor and wooden wall panels. Straightlines dominate the floor, wall panels, ceiling and the furniture; the only exception being a single red chair which screams for attention in its idiosyncratic design.

Another lounge in the office also has red sofas, and relaxing in them we are overtaken by the luxury that shines through in this simple volume. The lounge is a glass case; inclined glass walls with vertical lines on three sides and a focus wall made up of stacked silver travertine, encasing the transparent volume. The dark brown timber deck flooring acts as the perfect contrast to this transparent volume which radiates copious luxury in simple terms.

The visitors' seating area on the display floor also boasts of red semi-formal sofas set against a backdrop of a stacked silver travertine wall and rich timber deck flooring; the result is subtle with a dash of excitement.

If the red lounge chairs seem too bright, you can rest in the other seating space of the display floor which is less dashing and more sombre, complete in tones of black and white. Black and white sofas are arranged on a rich brown timber floor, against a transcendent frame of stacked silver travertine wall; the rich brown is carried to the ceiling that is made of timber fins in the same finish as that of the floor. 

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