30 St Mary Axe, the new headquarters for Swiss Re is located on the site of the former Baltic Exchange in the heart of London's financial centre. An 'environmentally progressive' building, the tower houses not just offices but also a restaurant on the 40th floor (for the use of building residents only) and is set within a new public plaza. Swiss Re occupy 15 floors of the tower, consolidating all their staff from various sites scattered throughout the City. Dovetail's involvement began at the earliest stages of data collection, right through to furniture mock-ups and managing the final migration.

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On the corner of Finsbury Square and Finsbury Pavement is another example of a successful commercial building by Foster and Partners. Inside there are approximately 2000 workstations for Bloomberg, one of Dovetail’s continuing clients for ten years.

Over that period a true partnership has developed where Dovetail has supplied Bloomberg from London to Hong Kong, Dubai to Moscow, Prague to Stockholm. Using some of the smaller, locally-based design firms, Bloomberg has consistently used Dovetail to source and install product, from six dealer workstations in central Europe to the latest large project. All based around Hannah from Knoll, the workstation has become a transmitting station as Bloomberg broadcast directly from the desk. Dovetail also takes care of the training and conference facilities with a range of modern classics to the latest designs, from George Nelson to Jorge Pensi.

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Lovells is an international business law firm with offices in major financial and commercial centres across Europe, Asia and the United States. As a consequence of mergers with Boesebeck Droste, Ekelmans Den Hollander and Siméon & Associés, together with their existing network of international offices, Lovells is one of the largest law firms in Europe.

There are 334 partners and 1,500 lawyers worldwide, and they employ 3,000 staff worldwide. Lovells is the fifth largest law firm in Europe and the eighth largest law firm in the world. When the firm centralised many of their London offices into one location in Atlantic House Dovetail supplied over 3,000 filing cabinets as well as the majority of loose furniture in the well-equipped staff restaurant.

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Virgin’s brand is different, in its values, in its look and in practice. Given the opportunity to act as furniture consultants on its airport lounges, the brief not surprisingly, was to come up with something different again - no lounge was to be the same as another. Each one was to have its own character. There was to be no roll out programme.

To date, Dovetail has completed four lounges, at Gatwick, Heathrow, Johannesburg and Tokyo. Varying in size from providing accommodation for between 40 and 80 passengers, each project involves an eclectic mix of products.

In each case, the complete package has to be co-ordinated in order that it can be loaded into one freight container for reasons both of cost and security and in order to meet the very disciplined timetable for implementation on each site. A logistical triumph, each of the projects completed to date has met Virgin’s expectations - of being different to the norm.

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Ace Group is a US reinsurance business registered with Lloyd's of London with whom Dovetail has an eight-year history. In that time Dovetail has supplied new products such as Hannah and PL-1 from Knoll, as well as refurbished existing systems furniture in regional offices  from Crawley to Manchester. Dovetail's most recent project for the Group was managing the relocation of over 500 people in 5 separate locations into the new head office building at 100 Leadenhall Street in The City. 

This included all areas of the building from the Chief Executive's office, open plan areas with new and existing furniture through to the basement training rooms and staff restaurant.

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Established in 1848, today Prudential plc is a leading international financial services company with more than 13 million customers and some 20,000 employees worldwide. In early November 2002, 435 Prudential staff moved into 38,750 sq ft of new office space at one of London's hottest new locations, Paddington Central.

William Dunne, Managing Director of Prudential's Designers IDEA commented "The key to the design is that it fully supports the increasingly mobile and flexible workstyles that the majority of office workers now adopt - often in spite of their offices.

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DEGW were appointed to design and co-ordinate the complex and lengthy phased occupation of two new 5-storey buildings adjacent to the existing BBC offices at White City.

There was an unusually high level of staff involvement when it came to choosing colours and storage configurations for each department, (working from a ‘menu’ devised by the designers) which in turn called for a highly sophisticated Project Management approach. In addition to supplying all the Bisley cabinets on the job, Dovetail worked closely with the project team on the multi-phased installation.

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Wales Millennium Centre, on Cardiff Bay waterfront, is one of the most exciting cultural initiatives happening in Europe today. Not only a place to see the best in international musicals, opera, ballet and dance, it is also home to seven diverse and exciting cultural organisations.

Working closely with the WMC design team, Dovetail supplied seating and tables for a variety of areas within the complex, from balcony bars to conference facilities and children's classrooms. Another successful installation for the Dovetail team.

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The Randers Sereis 500 stacking chair
was an ideal solution for the children's section.