Coca-Cola Office Commons – Madrid
Stone Designs has designed the new office common areas of beverage company giant Coca-Cola, located in Madrid, Spain.
For us, the new interiors of the Coca-Cola HQ represented a big challenge, due to the long history and the strong personality of the brand.
In Coca-Cola every moment has to be a celebration. Each meeting, each committee and each conversation have a special character, that doesn’t exist in other companies. Happiness is, with no doubt, the strongest value of the brand, and the one that inspired Stone Designs’ team to approach the project.
The new HQ welcomes visitors with a big dining table, instead of a desk. It’s a reception where everyone feels like a guest. There are no barriers, protocols or formalities, just two people that will happily attend to everyone. In the same space, there is a small office where to enjoy a soft-drink, while waiting. Everything is very “Coca-Cola”, very authentic.
In the spaces that follow the reception, we find lots of details that make this intervention into a delight for the senses. There are different typologies of spaces, like the big frames that become meeting points or the bleacher which in a very original way, keeps some books, visitors can take home.
Materials and lighting of the spaces were selected with a lot of care. The use of natural oak wood, mixed with the colors of the upholstery and the red details over all the metallic elements contribute to capture in a subtle way all the values of the company. Everyone notice them, but as global view, escaping from the easy solution of applying red gratuitously.
Design: Stone Designs
Photography: Alberto Monteagudo
