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Bespoke: size, colour, finish
Executive furniture catalogues stop at designer desks and storage. Mithos keeps going: the collection includes a bar cabinet, 130 by 60 by 110 centimetres, with eucalyptus sides, leather-covered front panels, a transparent glass shelf — and provision for a refrigerator to be fitted inside.
It sounds like a flourish and is actually a piece of workplace realism. An executive floor receives people: clients who arrive early, a board that runs past seven, a negotiation that needs a pause. A room that can offer something without anyone leaving it behaves differently from a room where someone has to walk to the kitchen. The same logic runs through the collection's lateral extension, its waiting area, its small side table and its lamp, ashtray and tray.
The design is by Paolo Galeotti for Codutti, a company that has been making office furniture since 1954. La Mercanti specifies the composition, the finishes and the delivery for offices in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Collection: Mithos 08 executive, Codutti — design Paolo Galeotti
Executive desk: L 240 · D 110 · H 75 cm (94.5 · 43.3 · 29.5 in) · eucalyptus top with leather insert · lateral extension entirely in wood · drawer unit with leather storage tray inlaid on the top
Desktop equipment: sliding stationery drawers built into the top · induction charger · multi-sockets · leather-covered cable door with brush trim (sockets not included)
Tables: round Ø 140 · H 75 cm (55.1 · 29.5 in) with leather insert, cable door and leather-covered curved sides · rectangular L 280 · D 120 · H 75 · semi-oval L 420 · D 165 · H 75 · custom conference table L 720 · D 330 · H 75
Storage: console bookcase L 229 · D 53 · H 81 and L 368 · D 45 · H 209 with built-in LED lights in the top · storage cabinet with eucalyptus sides, transparent glass doors and leather top · bar cabinet L 130 · D 60 · H 110 with leather fronts, glass shelf and provision for a refrigerator · side table L 130 · D 60 · H 48 · pulpit L 60 · D 41 · H 128
Seating: armchair fully covered in leather, handmade with traditional saddle stitching, black matt painted base
Finishes: eucalyptus dyed Cocoa EH05, Desert ED07, Carbon EC06 · leather Coffee CL84, Pink CY85, Black CN72, Dove Grey CT86, Blue CZ73 · lacquer Brown FW63, Gobi FG65, Night FF62 · thin leather Coffee PL81, Petroleum PP96
Accessories: tray, desk lampshade, ashtray · lacquered stationery tray drawer with leather details
Manufacturer: Codutti, since 1954
240 by 110 centimetres, 75 high, with an optional lateral extension made entirely of wood rather than a metal-legged return. That matters in a room where the desk is seen from the door: the extension reads as part of the same piece instead of an addition. Check the clearance behind the desk before ordering, since the extension changes the footprint on one side only.
By hand, entirely. The leatherwork on Mithos is carried out by craftsmen and finished with saddle stitching — the two-needle stitch developed in saddlery, where two threads cross inside the same hole so that the seam holds even if one thread breaks. On the desk the leather is inlaid flush into the eucalyptus top, not laid over it, so there is no step under the hand.
Four: round at 140 cm diameter, rectangular 280 × 120, semi-oval 420 × 165 and a custom conference table at 720 × 330 cm, all 75 cm high. The round one carries a cable door in the top and leather-covered curved sides, which is what makes it work in a room where the table is seen from every direction rather than pushed against a wall.
The taller console bookcase, 368 × 45 × 209 cm, has LED spots built into its eucalyptus top as part of the piece. It is worth planning that with the electrician early: a bookcase that lights itself changes how the wall behind the desk reads in the evening, and it removes the need for a floor lamp in a room that rarely has space for one.
Codutti, in business since 1954 and describing itself as craftsman and industrial manufacturer at the same time. That combination is the reason a single piece can carry hand-stitched leather and machine-finished wood. The collection itself is designed by Paolo Galeotti.
A director's office is also a room where guests are hosted. Five steps that decide whether it works on the day it matters.
A waiting area with a side table and proper seating changes the first ninety seconds of a meeting. It is planned first, because it usually gets whatever space is left over.
Water, coffee, a glass at the end of a negotiation. A cabinet that holds them, with a fridge if the room justifies it, removes the interruption of someone leaving to fetch things.
Working and receiving are two different modes. Where the floor plan allows, separating them lets a conversation start without the desk between two people.
Executive rooms are used late. Lighting integrated into the storage, rather than a ceiling grid, is what makes the room usable after six without feeling like an office.
La Mercanti quotes desk, storage, tables and seating as a single configuration so the finishes match across the room instead of arriving from separate production runs.
