Designer furniture brands Vondom and Sancal have recently renovated their premises. Hand in hand with the Habitat Valencia fair 2019, the brands held two exclusive events to unveil their renovations to a wide range of designers, journalists and professionals within the worlds of design and lifestyle.
Vondom’s new headquarters are located in Beneixida, 40 minutes from Valencia. This innovative space covers 64,000 m2, has the most advanced production technology, 3 showrooms, and 150 employees dedicated to design. When unveiling the new headquarters, the brand also presented its ‘Vondom Revolution’ commitment; a pledge of sustainability to create collections made from plastic recovered from the sea, with the aim of building a better future.
Since Vondom was founded in 2009, the firm has been committed to a competitive strategy of internationalising its designs by collaborating with world-renowned designers. It currently has flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Shanghai, and over a dozen showrooms around the world.
Sancal has new, expanded premises in the town of Yecla. The current headquarters were designed in 2000, but the growth of the company has prompted this essential expansion project that covers almost 5,000 m2, with the construction of a new building adjacent to the one built years ago.
The architecture of both buildings is decisively rationalist, as one of the main objectives of the expansion project was to find the perfect balance between the old and the new: to evolve respecting what already exists because ‘we want to express our roots’. The sharp lines of the two ‘white boxes’ splashed with red, yellow and blue pay tribute to the Bauhaus, but is also a practical way of locating each of the entrances.
It is truly inspiring to see Sancal’s 20,000-m2 facilities, beginning with the blue entrance door where the typographer Marial Soy has created an uplifting floor mural with the words Ánimo valiente (Be brave!) to welcome visitors, and ends at the new 800-m2 showroom displaying a wide selection of the firms most iconic products. Many other slogans, also drawn by Marial_Soy, reflect the day-to-day life of the firm and accompany one’s visit through the new factories, capturing the company’s light-hearted way of approaching work. Last but not least, the urban artist Seikon was entrusted with transforming the loading dock into a work of street art. Both projects follow on from the ‘Touch-up at 40’ changes made in 2013, when the Sancal studio revamped the factory corridors with whimsical signs, mini-showrooms, in addition to commissioning murals by Agostino Iacurci, Ricardo Cavolo and Zosen.
