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The top is what a visitor touches first, and on the PURE desk it can be Laminam porcelain stoneware in three matte shades: Ossido Nero, Pietra Grey and Ossido Bruno. PURE stands on a metal structure holding the slab in a dialogue of horizontal and vertical lines, so the top reads as a single surface lifted on a light drawing. Of the three Horo desks it is the only one offered this way; LINE and JOIN stay in melamine or lacquer. Among contemporary desks from Italy, PURE is the one to consider when the top itself should set the tone of the room.
The same porcelain stoneware is available on the 39⅜ × 23⅝ in. extension and on the doors of the BLEND service unit, so the same stone appears on the desk and on the unit next to it. PURE also gained new frame colors for tone-on-tone or contrasting pairings: Ossido Nero over a black frame keeps the desk quiet, Pietra Grey against Nautilus lets the structure speak. For a corner office with presence, that pairing is the decision that matters most.
The design is by Antonio Morello, and About Office builds it in Ancona. Next to PURE stand the LINE and JOIN desks, conference tables in the PURE and LINE families, BLEND for service storage, LOOP shelving with a multimedia version and LIFT, the credenza. La Mercanti sets the three Laminam samples beside the client's chosen frame color, in the office's own light, before the top is signed off.
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The detail you look at every day. PURE shows a metal frame holding the top. LINE has a painted aluminum profile inset in the top, a contrast with warm woods and lacquers. JOIN makes the modesty panel slot into the top and adds two cable outlets matched to the frame. All three share the same widths, 78¾ to 94½ in., and the same 37¼ in. depth, so the choice is about character, not size.
It is an option, not a given. PURE and LINE come freestanding, with a partial or a full modesty panel, or with the extension: four configurations. JOIN comes in three, and on JOIN the panel is the design itself, slotted into the top. On LINE the panel completes the look. Panels can be finished in lacquer, so a client facing a visitor's chair can pick a color for that side alone.
That is the point of the tables. They repeat the language of the desks, so the conference room continues the private office. The PURE table keeps plain, uniform surfaces, from 94½ in. up to 236¼ in. long, or round at 47¼ in. The LINE table carries the aluminum center profile, takes top access in the surface and reaches 267¾ in. Frame colors and finishes are shared across both rooms.
About Office is the brand of Mobilpref S.p.A., a company in Ancona, Italy, that has been manufacturing furniture components since 1982. Desks, conference tables and storage in Horo are drawn to the same finish cards and the same frame colors, which matters when an executive floor is furnished in phases and the second order has to match the first.
Yes, in its multimedia version. LOOP multimedia is prepared for a TV monitor, with a technical compartment for the cables that also works structurally to support the screen. It comes 88⅝ or 106⅜ in. wide, 19¼ in. deep and 78⅜ in. high. In a conference room it turns the wall behind the table into the place for presentations and brainstorming, with no separate stand.
A private office is more than its desk. Five steps to complete the room with the rest of the Horo collection, from the conference table to the credenza, with one palette.
Horo has two table families. PURE runs from 94½ to 236¼ in. long and also comes round at 47¼ in.; LINE runs from 94½ to 267¾ in. with its aluminum center profile. A table inside the private office needs one of the shorter sizes; a dedicated room can take the modular lengths.
BLEND measures 66½ × 23⅝ in. and stands 22¼ in. high, low enough to sit next to the desk as a second work surface with storage below. It comes open, with hinged doors, or with sliding doors and front drawers, the version to pick when there is little room to swing a door.
The LOOP bookcase stands on painted metal uprights that echo the table frames. It comes 71, 88⅝ or 106⅜ in. wide and 42⅛, 60¼ or 78⅜ in. high, with four or five shelves. The low one fits under a window; the tall one closes a whole wall and takes modules with doors.
The LIFT credenza is 70⅞ or 106¼ in. wide and 28 in. high, with a taller 44⅛ in. version. In the conference room it keeps files and materials at hand without adding a closet; the shorter one fits under a window, the longer one runs along a full wall.
Frames, tops and doors draw on the same cards: painted metal in six colors, melamines and 20 lacquers. Settle the frame color first, then tops and doors, so the private office and the conference room read as one project.
