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Bespoke: size, colour, finish
Most executive collections offer a list of species: oak, walnut, ebony, and a decision that is really about budget. Mithos takes one wood — eucalyptus — and dyes it three ways: Cocoa, Desert and Carbon. The grain stays the same; what changes is the temperature of the room.
Cocoa is the warm, traditional register, paired in the catalogue with coffee or dove grey leather. Desert is pale and sand-toned, matched with pink. Carbon is close to black and goes with black or blue leather and Night lacquer. Working within one species — the lateral extension included — has a practical consequence for a project in India: pieces ordered at different times still match, because there is no batch-to-batch variation between two different timbers, only the same eucalyptus under a different dye.
The collection is designed by Paolo Galeotti for Codutti, in business since 1954. La Mercanti works with Indian practices and corporate clients from the finish schedule through to delivery on site.
Collection: Mithos 08 executive, Codutti — design Paolo Galeotti
Finishes: eucalyptus dyed Cocoa EH05, Desert ED07, Carbon EC06 · leather Coffee CL84, Pink CY85, Black CN72, Dove Grey CT86, Blue CZ73 · lacquer Brown FW63, Gobi FG65, Night FF62 · thin leather Coffee PL81, Petroleum PP96
Executive desk: L 240 · D 110 · H 75 cm · eucalyptus top with leather insert · lateral extension entirely in wood · drawer unit with leather storage tray inlaid on the top
Desktop equipment: sliding stationery drawers built into the top · induction charger · multi-sockets · leather-covered cable door with brush trim (sockets not included)
Tables: round Ø 140 · H 75 with leather insert, cable door and leather-covered curved sides · rectangular L 280 · D 120 · H 75 · semi-oval L 420 · D 165 · H 75 · custom conference table L 720 · D 330 · H 75
Storage: console bookcase L 229 · D 53 · H 81 and L 368 · D 45 · H 209 with built-in LED lights · storage cabinet with glass doors and leather top · bar cabinet L 130 · D 60 · H 110 with provision for a refrigerator · side table L 130 · D 60 · H 48 · pulpit L 60 · D 41 · H 128
Seating: armchair fully covered in leather, handmade with traditional saddle stitching, black matt painted base
Manufacturer: Codutti, since 1954
240 × 110 cm, 75 high, with an optional extension made entirely of wood. In a cabin where the desk faces the door, that extension changes the footprint on one side, so the clearance for visitors' chairs should be checked against the plan before ordering rather than after delivery.
A stitch from saddlery, worked with two needles and two threads that cross inside the same hole. Its property is that a broken thread does not unravel the seam. On Mithos it is done by hand on the leather of the desk, the table sides and the armchair — which is also why the leatherwork is described as entrusted exclusively to craftsmen.
Yes: a side table at 130 × 60 × 48 cm, an armchair fully covered in leather with a black matt base, and accessories including a tray, a desk lampshade and an ashtray. The catalogue treats the waiting area as one of four settings alongside the executive office, the home office and the meeting room.
Three ways: multi-sockets, an induction charger and a cable door covered in leather with a brush trim. The sockets themselves are not included, so the electrical specification has to be agreed at order stage — it is the detail that most often ends up as a trailing extension lead across the floor.
An Italian manufacturer active since 1954, describing itself as craftsman and industrial producer at the same time, and working across executive and operative furniture, seating and partition walls. Mithos belongs to its executive line and is designed by Paolo Galeotti.
Corporate interiors are rarely ordered in one go. Five steps so the second phase does not look like a different company.
Cocoa, Desert or Carbon: recorded once, at the top of the schedule, and repeated on every subsequent order. It is the single decision that holds a staged project together.
Coffee, pink, black, dove grey or blue, with its reference. Colour names travel badly between purchase orders; codes do not.
A record of what is already in place, under the room's own light, is what a supplier needs to match a later addition — far more useful than a description.
Reception, boardroom and the chairman's office are seen in sequence by every visitor. If the budget forces phases, those three belong in the same phase.
La Mercanti holds the finish and component references with the order, so an addition two years later is the same specification rather than the closest available.
