Oroséa
Bespoke Sculptural Reception Desk
A sculptural reception desk designed, engineered and built from scratch for Oroséa in Paros — from the first concept sketch to installation on site.
Project facts
- Work hours
- ~550
- Team
- 3 people
- Total weight
- ~400 kg
- Scope
- Design, construction, transport & installation
The process
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Concept
The first sketches — establishing form, proportion and the idea the piece has to carry.
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Design
The concept is resolved into a defined design — surfaces, lines and materials.
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Engineering
Structure, load and assembly are worked out so the sculpture can actually be built, moved and installed.
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Sculpting
The form is shaped by hand — the stage where the surface gets its character.
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Construction
Frame, body and finished surfaces are built together into one piece.
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Transport
Roughly 400 kg of finished sculpture, packed and moved to Paros.
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Installation
Placed, levelled and finished on site.
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Final Result
The piece in place — part furniture, part architecture.
Oroséa asked for a reception desk that would not read as furniture placed in a room, but as part of the room itself. The answer was a single sculptural piece, designed and built specifically for the space.
The work ran from the first concept sketch through design, engineering, sculpting and construction in the workshop — around 550 work hours across a team of three. The finished piece weighs roughly 400 kilograms, which made transport and installation part of the design problem rather than an afterthought: how the sculpture is built determines whether it can be moved to Paros and set in place at all.
The result is the first thing a guest meets on arrival — a surface with the weight and texture of stone, shaped to belong to the architecture around it.
Details
Senia
Cava, Artificial Rocks & Lobby Ceiling