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Johnny Grey Board Rooms

Board Room

Our background in designing high-end, residential interiors allows us to do much more than just design of the boardroom table - we can fashion the entire environment, including the lighting, décor and choice of art.

Our skill in marrying ergonomics with high quality craftsmanship allows us to create sophisticated interiors that will endure over time and be an inspiring place to work in.

Johnny Grey dexter kitchen

Reception

We create eye-catching furniture for reception areas that make a great first impression on visitors to your office. The reception area needs to be functional but also communicate subliminal themes relating to your company. We develop these into a brief.

Conveying, confidence, reliability or cool simplicity, the messages will be translated into the furniture, materials and décor to properly welcome your guests.

Johnny Grey Private Offices

Private Offices

The use of high-quality handmade, bespoke furniture is at the heart of our design philosophy. The art of private office design involves creating harmonious and calming environments that promote concentration and good decision making.

Along with natural light, acoustics control, subtle use of colour and natural materials, we employ soft geometry - the use of soft shapes to facilitate body movement and increase the ratio of desk space to floor area.

Johnny Grey The Sociable Office Kitchen

The Sociable Office Kitchen

The office of the future needs to be a more sociable place as hospitality is the key to making employees feel the office is not just the place they work. Brainstorming, informal meetings and laptop flexibility all mean that social spaces should be an important addition to the traditional office.

Food prep and dining areas should be flanked by alcoves or work booths, and tables should be balanced by quiet spaces for undisturbed work.

Johnny Grey Instinct-Based Design

Instinct-Based Design

Designers can help identify and bring out the best of the features of your space to make a flexible, functional and exciting environment with both public and private areas that compliment activities of the company and staff. An example is deciding whether or not to place desks facing out the window or in towards colleagues.

Neuroscience research tells us that having our back towards the action is unsettling. A view of both internal activity and to external environment are needed for real feelings of safety and comfort.

Johnny Grey Individual Furniture

Individual Furniture

Custom pieces bring a great sense of quality to a room and can also solve space shortages or storage issues. Individual furniture items like a chest to house old maps, a computer desk with hidden storage for a hard drive or book shelves made to fit can turn an awkward shaped office into a well functioning space.

Johnny Grey Studios specializes in designing custom pieces that suit your individual needs and specifications. We could even make a hidden kitchen-in-a-cupboard.

Johnny Grey Dexter Kitchen

MetHome and Showtime TV House 2008

Along with eleven international designers, we transformed a 19th century townhouse in Gramercy Park, New York into a home for characters in six Showtime series: Dexter™, Californication, The L Word®, The Tudors, United States of Tara and Weeds.

Revolving around the murderer-cum-vigilante Dexter Morgan, played by actor Michael C. Hall,

designing the kitchen turned out to be surprisingly painless. Who would have guessed that a kitchen for a serial killer would cause so much mirth?

The theme was interpreted with a light touch. Ironic, hand-crafted furniture with a sensuous curved countertop in bright and dark woods reflect the ambiguity of the viewing experience.

Johnny Grey Room for all reason

A Room for All Reasons

In a private residence on Russian Hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge we were asked by the committee to create a radical idea for a living space that was not a kitchen but more of a room to retire to, to be inspired by, with flexibility of use. The phrase 'A Room for All Reasons' was coined with Agnes Bourne, the nationally respected designer whom we used as the mentor.

Library, all- Gender boudoir, café, study and kitchen combined together. Kevin Hackett, our design director worked with Agnes to commission artists and craftspeople from all over the USA to produce items for the show. Electrolux generously supplied the appliances.

Johnny Grey Grand designs exhibition

Grand Designs Exhibition 2006

Grand Designs exhibition team asked us to contribute to the show with a design that makes cooking pleasurable. Our circular, all round vision island kitchen created a lot of interest, as cooking becomes a sociable activity and so encourages care and less hurry with food. Slow cooking was beginning to take off during that summer.

Brian Turner, the celebrity British chef set us a brief and did live interviews and book signings from the stand including his (then) new book Favourite British Recipes. His love of English cooking was tested by the design team later when we had a superb lunch at his restaurant in Mayfair.

Johnny Grey NKBIS Electrolux Kitchen 2006

NKBIS Electrolux Kitchen 2006

Electrolux was keen to continue with Johnny's studios to show their appliances. This time the new Icon collection was our focus. Kevin Hackett and the design team created an imaginary Kitchen of the Future, using new materials and daring shapes, turning conventional kitchen furniture into sculptural pieces that helped you enter into a future world.

Dazzling craftsmanship, curved wooden countertops were mixed with new materials such as Sensitile that reflects light anyway but straight, plaster tiles on the walls that evoke shapes and textures from fabrics and Proma, a recycled plastic that makes a eye catching, translucent food bar top.

Johnny Grey NKBIS Electrolux Kitchen 2005

NKBIS Electrolux Kitchen 2005

Electrolux asked Johnny to help promote their new professional style appliances to USA designers and architects by designing the ultimate sociable kitchen experience. Along with Kevin Hackett, USA design director at the time we created a sweeping, multifunctional island with places to perch that formed the centre of their booth.

With ghost walls to soften the larger appliances, and surrounding them with stylish cabinetry and display, the whole booth was set off with a moving lighting show. In the end no one wanted to leave, especially when the hospitality was in full swing. www.electrolux.com

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