Clerkenwell Design Week (CWD) is the ultimate trade show for office fit out companies like JBH Refurbishments. Such an event plays a crucial role in establishing the 2024/2025 top office design trends.
What its Like to be Immersed in The CWD 2024 Experience
As you step onto the cobbled streets of London’s design district, you find yourself immediately drawn to the variety of independent show rooms with a luxurious array of furniture, carpets, tiles, kitchens, washrooms, decorative solutions and all manner of fixings and fixtures. All designed to meet the needs of high-end commercial interior fit outs.
This fanfare of ‘design must-haves’ is our opportunity to get a feel for new products and to gauge the top office design trends for 2024/2025. We also get the opportunity to discuss manufacturing processes with the experts, which we can later share with our clients. To have all these showrooms and access to essential information in one place is vital to the design sector, particularly because the landscape of office design continues to evolve at pace.
With a breadth of new and innovative solutions on offer, JBH Refurbishments is able to design workplaces with greater comfort, flexibility, and opportunities to engage. We can also ensure we tick all the boxes for our client’s low carbon targets.
Top Office Design Trends 2024/2025
In this article, we’ve condensed our key takeaways from CDW 2024 to give you the low down on the top office design trends.
Sustainable Materials Continue Drive The Fit Out Sector’s Zero Emissions Targets
Clerkenwell Design Week 2024 confirmed the sector’s focus on implementing sustainable building practices and materials. Hats off to the furniture and flooring manufacturers who have led the way in developing products that are 100% recycled and recyclable. It’s this conscious drive for reducing unnecessary waste that enables us to deliver eco-products for our client’s office refurbishments as standard.
Comfort and Collaboration Go Hand in Hand
Most companies today have embraced a hybrid workforce, with a combination of working from home and the office. As a result, the way we furnish offices continues to focus on creating zones for collaboration, meetings and for independent working.
Although dedicated workstations remain a fundamental requirement in office design for the majority of our clients, there is an increasing desire for comfort seating, breakout areas and small meeting rooms, where comfort and collaboration take priority.
The wonderful furniture makers and designers at CDW 2024 have made this possible by creating new and interesting pieces, that can become a prominent office design feature.
Take for example this enclosed seating area with integrated lighting and an adjoining soundproof booth. It’s a compact system that can fit into most workspaces and provide a practical, all-encompassing breakout solution.
Chairs and Seating – an Effective Means of Uplifting an Office Interior
For some time, seating has been used to upscale office interior design. This is due to a wider variety of shapes and colours of seating. Consequently, office interior designers can be more adventurous with colour, pattern and shapes to deliver a unique interior.
Although not new products, we’d still like to share this selection of chairs, which can bring an equal measure of comfort, colour and style to any office interior.
Colour Everywhere
Colour was everywhere at CWD 2024! From shelving units and powder coated chair legs to coloured sinks, light switches, and curtains, the show was awash with colour. As an office design company, we were delighted to see the variety of products that will enable us to introduce colour without overpowering the design.
Leading colour trends for 2024/2025 are a combination of blues, greens, coral and vibrant pinks, with the occasional pop of yellow.
Tarrazzo is Trending
Bringing extra pops of colour, with a sustainable twist to office design was a variety of terrazzo products on display at CWD 2024. This Italian inspired surface combines chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, and other materials, with a cementitious binder that is polished to create worktops, tiles, splashbacks and more. We love the flecks of colours that can bring that wow factor to any kitchen, bathroom or floor.
Curves and Chunk
During our CWD 2024 visit, we noticed a strong use of curved edges and shapes used to create impressive items of furniture and ironmongery.
Tables featured a dominant curved edge, while chairs and seating were creatively manufactured with curved framework and unholstered to emphasise the soft lines.
Vintage Vibes
Vintage styles and stackable wooden framed chairs have been a popular exhibit at CWD for a few years now. This raw and robust style is reminiscent of 1960s and ‘70s furniture, and often features a loop and twist cane weave. As you can see in the images below, this chair style is somewhat more refined for office design in 2024.
Natural Materials
In 2024 there’s been a shift in the use of natural finishes in office design. The popularity in wood flooring and furniture can be seen echoed throughout the office and into the kitchen, where a combination of wood and laminate cabinets has become a popular feature.
Lighting Features
Lighting plays a pivotal role in office design, and there was an abundance of playful and opulent styles to choose from at CWD 2024. While the more ornate and obsure are likely suited to hospitality interiors, from time-to-time the decorative lighting can cross over to the office. Below you’ll see a selection of the lighting fixtures on display that would be a fantastic feature as part of an office design and fit out.
That’s a Wrap on CWD Top Office Design Trends 2024/2025
Thank you for reading about our visit to Clerkenwell Design Week 2024. If you’re looking to update your office interior to meet today’s workplace culture and would like to integrate the latest office design trends, you can arrange a free office design and fit out consultation with JBH Refurbishments. Contact our team today to book a site visit.