Arrival at Haworth's Shanghai showroom is a soft green room: a ribbed wall carries the Haworth logo above a pale reception desk, and the colour choices follow where the industry is heading. It reads as a first hello rather than a barrier.
A seating display in Haworth's Shanghai showroom sets the chair portfolio on low wooden plinths one piece at a time, a blue Nia here and an orange Poppy there, so a visitor can walk the line and feel how differently each one supports a body.
The welcome and waiting area of Haworth's Shanghai showroom is furnished with pieces by Patricia Urquiola, whose design language brings a home feeling into the workplace. Waiting here feels like being received rather than processed.
A modular Cabana Lounge in Haworth's Shanghai showroom can be reconfigured as the week asks, and its high-screened sofa gives a group real privacy to talk while the city skyline runs the length of the windows behind them.
Entente sofa, Poppy Lounge chairs and Openest Sprig coffee tables in Haworth's Shanghai showroom make a setting for the informal meeting: low seating, plants along the window and enough comfort that a conversation can take its time before anyone reaches for an agenda.
The pantry in Haworth's Shanghai showroom puts wood-leg Maari chairs and Orbit tables along a run of Riverbend sofas at the window. It works for a coffee, and just as well as a touchdown place between two meetings.
Another collaborative and cosy corner of Haworth's Shanghai showroom, where people can relax and rest rather than perform: an Openest sofa, two quilted green Lud'o chairs by Cappellini and the city held quietly at the glass on three sides.
The material library in Haworth's Shanghai showroom hangs fabrics and finishes in full colour order along the wall, a high table beside them, so clients can compare options in daylight and settle a palette in a single sitting.
A meeting room in Haworth's Shanghai showroom runs a YourPlace Core table towards the window and the skyline beyond it. The colours were chosen to keep people calm, which is usually the state a good brainstorm starts from.
Intuity Park Bench tables and Maari chairs make an open work area in Haworth's Shanghai showroom that turns into a short team meeting with nothing moved. A cushioned niche in the wall behind takes whoever arrives early.
An Epure workstation area in Haworth's Shanghai showroom, tailor made and flexible in design: one shared surface curves outward to give four people in Zody II chairs a defined place of their own, with a ribbed green screen for a backdrop.
An Immerse setting in Haworth's Shanghai showroom pairs a high table with a low one, so a team catch up or a casual client meeting can happen perched or seated, greenery at one end and the lit city at the window.
A private meeting room in Haworth's Shanghai showroom holds a HAT table and a screen inside a teal alcove, sized for a video conference or for a small team to work something out without booking the larger room.
Location Details
32F, Tower 1, Jingan Kerry Center, 1515 West Nanjing Road, Shanghai 200040, China