Real Estate Elegance

Restraint as a signature

For AXIOM in Rezé, we orchestrated 330 m² of Scandinavian fit-out where 18 workstations embody the understated style of a new real estate era.

330 m²
2 months
2025

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Concept

Real estate elegance written with restraint

Support on a relocation and a complete replacement of their furniture

Context

AXIOM, a real estate developer based in Rezé on the outskirts of Nantes, entrusted Kytom with the complete redesign of its 330 m² of offices for 18 employees, delivered in 2025. The project combined a relocation and a full replacement of the existing furniture, on a tight two-month schedule between the start of works and operational resumption.

The teams welcome investors and end clients in these premises, negotiate there, and plan development operations. The chosen direction, a minimal Scandinavian vocabulary built around honest materials (light oak, off-white, matte black metal) and straight lines, called for flawless execution: in a pared-down grammar, every misaligned joint is spotted at first glance.

330 m² to transform in two months, furniture entirely renewed

Two months of works, a furniture inventory to replace workstation by workstation, zero acceptable disruption to AXIOM’s activity. Design, procurement and coordination of the trades had to advance in parallel, not in sequence: over eight weeks, a single week of supplier delay would jeopardise the entire delivery. The framed budget required trade-offs locked in the upstream phase, with no margin for late adjustments.

No structural work to redo, but a requirement for continuous visual coherence between space planning, furniture, lighting and floor coverings. The project was not won on the building’s structure, it was won on the assembly precision of five non-structural packages coordinated to the day.

Two structuring decisions: orders locked upstream, packages run in parallel

The first decision was to lock all execution drawings before the start of works. Layout of the 18 workstations, sizing of the client reception area, acoustic treatment of the open-plan floor through movable partitions targeted at confidential meeting rooms, materials palette set workstation by workstation: everything was ordered on the basis of locked drawings, which eliminated the last-minute trade-offs fatal to the schedule.

The second decision was to run the packages simultaneously rather than in sequence. Electrical, cabling and IT network were pulled during the carpet laying, not after. Lighting was calibrated zone by zone (reception, workstations, meeting rooms) in coordination with the flooring installers. The new furniture and final decoration arrived in the last two weeks, already paced against the schedule of the other packages.

No intervention on the building envelope: resources were concentrated on perceived quality from the moment the threshold is crossed, where the first investor meeting plays out. This parallelisation, made possible by the upstream locking, held the eight contractual weeks without slippage.

18 workstations delivered in 2 months, 95% reusable furniture, 90% recyclable

The project was delivered within the two contractual months, with no postponement. The 18 workstations were operational from the teams’ return, new furniture in place, network infrastructure active, client reception area ready to host the first meetings.

The parallelisation of the packages, which represented the main scheduling risk, was the lever that made it possible to hold the line: no package waited for its predecessor, each trade intervened within a window paced to the week.

On the CSR front, the selected furniture shows 95% reusable components at the end of the first cycle, 90% recyclable materials and 90% repairable parts, indicators projected on the basis of supplier datasheets. The integrated recycled material rate reaches 30% across the entire delivered inventory.

The Scandinavian signature, legible from the entrance through the light oak / black metal contrast, now frames AXIOM’s commercial meetings across its 330 m².

330

sq m transformed

months of work

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