La Mercanti worked with DANA GmbH, an important social organization based in Hannover, Germany. With 15 facilities for senior citizens, the Dana group is one of the largest private service providers in elder care and they are committed to ensuring the best possible, individually-tailored care for their residents.

Our sales and technical team worked with Soha from the design Management of Dana to choose the best options for their welcoming space and the executive office.

Our designer created various renderings to show the client the best design options using the Toki collection, the Archiutti’s reception of modular concept born from an accurate study of the welcoming space: a composition of surfaces and volumes – available in many dimensions and finishes – which enables numerous declinations, for a tidy, functional and refined work environment. A game of linear shapes for an elegant and contemporary reception desk.

Soha selected the Toki L-shape reception desk with front parts made of panels in the new special finish white varnished texture “Linen”. The upper shelf is anthracite lacquered and the desktop in wengé wood. We added a low conversation top at the end of the return and a white service unit with one door on the front section. Inside the upper shelf can be lodged object holding recesses in varnished anthracite metal. Under the shelf, for all its length, can be inserted LED bars for the lightning of the frontal panel.

As for the executive office, they choose a luxury desk by I4Mariani: the Euclideo collection designed by Ferruccio Laviani. The desktop is upholstered in Amaretto leather and there is a left-hand bearing sideboard in ebony wood with four drawers and two doors. Euclideo is a desk that goes beyond the function, becoming a real sculpture, a privileged piece, a physical presence. It represents the evolution of the executive system towards a contemporary concept of furniture that is less tied to the traditional iconography of this functional typology. “It is the combination of two volumes that gives life, on one hand, to the work surface in contrast to the cabinet, deputy as container. Faceted solids that interpenetrate, defining volumes and spaces which in turn, delimit functions” explains the architect Ferruccio Laviani. Furthermore, Euclideo finishings are part of the expressive and stylistic language of the system, further defining the functions of each component. The suspended worktop, which seems almost to defy the laws of gravity, contrasts with the solid space of the sideboard that counteracts, even optically, the balance. The possibility of choosing between a range of different wood essences, ranging from exotic woods to the most traditional ones, make the whole of this executive desk even more unique and exclusive.

Working with the Dana team has been a pleasure and continues to be as La Mercanti is currently working on completing their office spaces by adding more custom pieces.