London, UK
London-based designers Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson create a premium and multifunctional storage shelf unit, PORTS Storage shelf, for office furniture brand Bene, offering spaces for a new generation of business leaders.
New working methods influenced by cultural and technical change require new room situations different from previous status-oriented classical management offices.
The project has been awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
In response to the changing office landscape, PORTS Storage is designed to double up as a room divider or a cloakroom with shelves and can even house a mini-fridge, pinboards and whiteboards within its frame.
“The market for executive offices and furniture has not changed for over a century,” said Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd.
“The private office is slowly disappearing,” added co-founder Luke Pearson.
“And managers are becoming more open, collaborative, democratic — and younger. So they need as much time and space as possible to plan how they will fulfil their responsibilities and to think creatively.”
The designers aim to create spaces according to new corporate needs: collaborative, multifunctional, individual.
Either in an office landscape or in public use working areas, new types of leadership spaces, meeting rooms or private spaces offer a new leadership environment.
Project: Ports Storage System
Designers: Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, Pearson Lloyd
Manufacturer: Bene GmbH
