Reception Areas
SCP Contracts supplies reception area furniture and lighting for hotels, airline executive lounges, museums, galleries, corporate offices and private homes.
Available for specification are a choice of soft seating, modular seating, coffee table and lighting solutions. SCP Contracts works with top brands like SCP, Cappellini, Hay and Flos lighting to enhance the experience of staff and visitors alike.
Clients include Tate Modern, the Barbican Arts Centre, Virgin Atlantic, Warner Music, BT, British Council, Tommy Hilfiger, Derwent London and the BBC's Broadcast Centre and Media Centre in London's White City.
Client: Derwent London plc
Architect: AHMM
Location: London
The Johnson Building is a bold, innovative £27 million mixed-use development with 147,000 sq ft of office space, jewellery workshops and a separate 14-flat apartment building. The project incorporates the knitting together of a group of 1940s Hatton Garden office buildings with new and old floors integrated around a dramatic new atrium topped by translucent EFTE windows.
SCP Contracts worked with AHMM in the selection of the atrium reception furniture as well as the outdoor courtyard area where bespoke slate tops were chosen for the Paperclip outdoor tables.
Products
Dadone sofa system by Antonio Citterio (B&B Italia)
Arco light by Achille Castigioni (Flos)
Bertoia chair by Harry Bertoia (Knoll International)
Paperclip table by Massimo and Lella Vignelli (Knoll International)
Johnson Building
Client: Land Securities
Architects: Fletcher Priest
Dashwood House is a 73-metre 19-story highrise building in London's main financial district, the City
of London. It is named after the Alderman Francis Dashwood, whose house
originally occupied the site.
When originally completed in 1976, Dashwood House had 16 storeys
and was 63 metres tall with a total 17,409 sq m and clad in pinkish granite.
In October 2006, planning permission was granted for a
refurbishment and height extension of Dashwood House. The scheme took the building's height to 19 storeys
and 73 metres with a total floor area of 21,194 sq m.
The previous top two mechanical floors were demolished and replaced with five
floors of office accommodation. The building's interior is protected from
direct sunlight through the application of silk-screened dot matrix fritting to
the replacement high-performance glass curtain wall.
In addition to the upper floors of this Land Securities
building, architects Fletcher Priest designed the reception area and specified
the Poltrona Frau Isola sofa system, Cor rugs and Tom Dixon Mirror
balls to great effect, using large geometric shapes, reflective surfaces and
strong blocks of orange and red, creating islands of colour in a sea of natural
tones.
Products:
Isola (Poltrona Frau)
Mirror Balls (Tom Dixon)
Varient Rug (Cor)
Dashwood House
Client: Barbican Arts Centre
Architects: AHMM
Location: London
The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. It also houses a library, three restaurants and a conservatory. The Barbican is owned, funded and managed by the City of London Corporation, the third-largest funder of the arts in the UK. It was opened in 1982.
In 2006, the Barbican underwent a significant refurbishment, overseen by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM). They improved circulation around the space, introduced bold signage in a style in keeping with the Centre's original 1970s Brutalist architecture. They also added an internal bridge linking the Silk Street foyer area with the lakeside foyer area. The Centre's main entrance at Silk Street was modified to give better pedestrian access. AHMM also removing most of the mid-1990s embellishments, which had been widely criticised.
Working with the Barbican and AHMM, SCP Contracts were issued an exacting brief; develop a seating system that can meet the varying needs of the different events held in the building. Alongside SCP designer Terence Woodgate, SCP Contracts developed the design of the Slow sofa to create a fully flexible and dynamic seating system of sofas and benches, with enough elegance to befit this wonderful public space. SCP Contracts also specified a number of other seating and table options for the public spaces.
Products:
Slow sofa system by Terence Woodgate (SCP)
Duna chairs by Lievore Altherr Molina (Arper)
Atlas tables by Jasper Morrison (Alias)
Barbican Centre
Client: Universal
Location: Kensington, London
Interiors: H Studio
Universal Music Group (UMG) is one of the world's leading music recording and publishing companies. They discover, develop, market and distribute music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees within the music industry. They are an international brand and are actively at work in 77 countries around the world.
The Universal Music Group set SCP Contracts a brief to create both a landmark reception area highly visible from Kensington High Street and a cafe that could be used as a third space by staff, a place to relax, hold informal meetings, or simply to get away from your desk.
H Studio commissioned a beautiful bespoke 6.2 metre SCP Lansdowne sofa in Paul Smith stripe for the reception area. Whilst the raw industrial cafe space was populated with the classic Chair and Stool 14 by Michael Thonet. The chairs and stools were specified in a range of bright colours, helping to give the space a playfulness and warmth.
Products:
Lansdowne sofa system in Paul Smith stripe fabric by Terence Woodgate (SCP)
Chair 14 stool and chairs by Michael Thonet (Thonet)