Plenty of executive desks are bought for the photograph and then asked to survive ten hours of files, laptops and tea. Spike is built the other way around: a structure of thick steel blades, joined to the legs with simple screws, under tops that include hard-working melamine finishes — walnut, oak, light elm, black ash — alongside the veneer, marble-finish HPL and glass of the showpiece versions. Designed by Giorgio Topan for Frezza, it treats robustness as part of the design, not an apology for it.
The practical logic runs through the whole program: a return-top version that adds a second work surface, service units with drawers, doors and even a minibar, meeting tables that assemble by modules when the team grows, and a Mediawall table for video calls. La Mercanti supplies Spike to offices where the director’s desk is the busiest desk in the building — and it ships from Italy with the finishes agreed on paper first.
Collection: Spike, executive collection
Manufacturer: Frezza
Design: Giorgio Topan
Desk: W 180, 200 or 220 cm × D 90 cm × H 75 cm; also with glass top
Desk with return top: W 180, 200 or 220 cm × D 190 cm × H 75 cm
Hanging desk: W 180, 200 or 220 cm × D 90 cm, supported by the load-bearing service unit
Load-bearing service units: W 153 or 203 cm × D 60 cm × H 57 cm; doors and drawers, minibar option; version with a lift-up top in etched glass on the upper side, painted black underneath
Meeting tables: 240 × 120 cm H 75; modular versions 120, 160 or 180 cm deep and 320 or 420 cm long; smoked glass extensions; black matt lacquered central insert with plug
Mediawall: 130 × 10 cm panel, H 180 cm, fabric or melamine covered, with built-in monitor, concealed wiring and a hanging trapezoidal meeting table
Coffee table: circular top, matching structure
Structure: thick steel sheet blades; leg joint assembled with simple screws; bronze, chrome, white embossed painted RAL 9010 or black embossed painted RAL 9005 finishes
Tops: melamine (white, dove, concrete, light elm, oak, walnut, black ash, black velvet), veneer (white ash, dark walnut, black ash), marble-finish HPL (white Calacatta, brown zebra), smoked or clear glass; veneer tops with inward tapering and rounded edges
Modesty panel: melamine or matt lacquered mdf, white RAL 9016, black RAL 9011 or custom colour
Desk pad: eco-leather, available in several colours
Manufacturer certifications: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001; FSC certified products on request
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