LAWTONS AFRICA
INTERIORS: SAVILE ROW TAILORED ENVIRONMENTS
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awtons Africa, a South African Law
firm which has it’s roots dating
back to 1892, appointed Savile Row
Tailored Environments to design a new
workplace interior consisting of 7 floors
that reflected the practice’s rich heritage
and ability to compete on a global level
while speaking to the local market position
as progressive and approachable. The look
ties into a modern base building aesthetic
with the vision for their workplace design
to align to their brand, desired client
experience and employee culture.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: SARAH DE PINA PHOTOGRAPHY
Design Concept
Savile Row initially approached the project
by analysing how todays legal workstyles
have moved away from the typical layout
of individual offices, favouring more
collaboration, mentorship and teamwork
which subsequently resulted in a hybrid
law office with an increased need for
office sharing and support spaces.
A mix of open plan workstations with
high storage banks for privacy, individual
offices and 2-person shared offices are
set alongside smaller informal meeting
areas. Break-away hubs and project team
rooms encourage knowledge sharing,
internal interaction and regular dialogue
and optimise both formal and informal
information flow, while smaller focus
rooms provide spaces for conducting
quiet research.
Although partners all have private
offices, they consist of smaller glazed
shopfront partitions with no doors facing
these support spaces to portray the
feeling of accessibility and transparency
for staff members.
Lawtons Africa