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A boardroom television usually arrives last, on a bracket or a trolley, with its cables left to find their own way. Horo gives it a bookcase instead. LOOP multimedia is prepared for a TV monitor, and its technical compartment for the cables has a structural job as well: it is what carries the screen. At 225.2 or 270.2 cm wide, 49 cm deep and 199 cm high, it turns the wall behind the meeting table into the place for presentations and brainstorming. It belongs with a set of contemporary office tables and desks, drawn in the same language.
The ordinary LOOP follows the same build: painted metal uprights that echo the table frames, wide shelves and a structural back panel, in a grid of four or five shelves, open or with doors, fluted lacquer included. Heights are 107, 153 or 199 cm. In a managing director's cabin the multimedia unit can stand behind the desk, with a plain LOOP of the same height beside it for files, so the media wall reads as one piece of joinery.
Antonio Morello designed Horo for About Office, Ancona, around three desks (JOIN, PURE, LINE), with meeting tables of the LINE and PURE families, BLEND as a service unit and the LIFT sideboard completing the room. La Mercanti marks the power and data points behind the LOOP multimedia on the cabin drawing with the client, so the wall is wired for the unit before it arrives.
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The PURE table keeps the plainest surfaces in the collection. It comes 240 × 126 cm, 270 × 126 cm with rounded ends, round at ø 120 cm, then 320 and 400 × 126 cm, and as a modular table at 480 or 600 × 126 cm. The round one suits a cabin; the modular lengths are for a dedicated boardroom, where the table can grow in sections.
BLEND is the service unit that extends the executive workstation: a working surface on top and storage below. It measures 169 × 60 cm and stands 56.5 cm high, in five versions: open, with hinged doors, or with sliding doors and front drawers. The doors can be fluted lacquer or Laminam, so the unit can take up the finish of the desk top.
Twenty, in GREENGUARD Gold certified paints, for tops and modesty panels, including Senape Italiana, Verde Foresta and Cipria Scuro alongside quieter shades. The fluted finish adds depth to lacquered surfaces on BLEND doors, LOOP modules and modesty panels. A lacquered modesty panel is a simple way to bring one colour into a cabin where the rest stays neutral.
Three: the PURE desk, its extension and the doors of the BLEND unit. Laminam is porcelain stoneware, offered here in three matt shades, Ossido Bruno, Pietra Grey and Ossido Nero. LINE and JOIN are made in melamine or lacquer, so a cabin that wants this material on the desk starts from PURE.
In his own words, quoted in the catalogue: it happens «when a creative vision evolves into a product that is functional, tangible and reproducible», creating a setting that blends comfort and emotion. In Horo that vision becomes three desks, each a different reading of the workplace, generous in size and backed by tables and storage in the same language.
Five steps to set up a Horo desk for a cabin: the model, the width, panel or extension, storage under the top, cable outlets and the finish that ties it together.
The Horo desk exists in three versions with identical sizes. PURE puts the metal frame on show, LINE inlays a painted aluminium profile in the top, JOIN lets the modesty panel cut into the top. Pick the version first: panels, tops and options depend on it.
The desk is 200, 220 or 240 cm wide, 94.5 cm deep and 74.5 cm high in every version. Measure the wall behind the chair and the walking space on the visitor's side before fixing the width; in a compact cabin the 200 cm desk often leaves the room to breathe.
Free-standing is the starting point for PURE and LINE; each can also take a partial modesty panel, a full one or an extension of 100 × 60 cm, while JOIN offers three of these set-ups. The extension gives a second surface for files or a laptop; the full panel closes the front towards the visitor.
A storage box can go under the top, and top access can be integrated. Desk outlets use EXIT caps with a FLAP vertebra or VERSAFLAP MONO; JOIN has two outlets coordinated with the frame. Place them on the drawing where the floor or wall points are.
The frame comes in six painted colours; tops are melamine, lacquer in 20 shades or, for PURE alone, Laminam. Tone on tone keeps the desk calm, contrast makes the structure visible: compare the samples together in the cabin's own light before deciding.
