Furniture Consultancy
Independent, impartial furniture consultancy is very difficult to find. Many companies who sell furniture offer furniture consultancy but they have a vested interest in what you buy.
Our approach in all WorkPlace work has been to accept remuneration only from you, the client, and to have only your best interests at heart. We have no links, financial or otherwise, with any furniture suppliers or manufacturers. We understand that it is an important part of our role to know the furniture suppliers and manufacturers and to know what they can supply and what their strengths are. We are then able to advise you with confidence.
A typical furniture consultancy assignment begins with a review of your existing furniture to establish what meets your needs and what does that. This type of review often includes staff consultation. Based on this review your WorkPlace furniture consultant can develop an outline brief for your new furniture and fine-tune that brief with you. He or she can then suggest a long shortlist of potential suppliers which may include your incumbent supplier. The next step is to arrange visits to showrooms and installations before agreeing the short list. The furniture consultant can then work with your in-house procurement team to manage the tender process if required and co-ordinate the selection process.
We can advise on all aspects of business furniture including health & safety; ergonomics; environmental issues; service level agreements; stock monitoring; disposal; specification; budget and functionality.
We are used to working collaboratively with your IT team, your architect and your staff representatives.
All the WorkPlace team have extensive furniture experience from previous lives as a furniture designer, a furniture sales person, an account manager, a project manager for furniture installation and a pan-European furniture buyer.