Our Story
C.O Designs offers more than just furniture.
We offer creative solutions in product and workstation design, with emphasis on value engineering enabled through 27 years’ experience in furniture design, production, logistics and product management.
C.O Designs is a Level 2 B-BBEE company, established in 1994, supplying office furniture nationally to corporate clients. To ensure control of quality, service and costs, the manufacturing arm was established in 1998.
C.O Designs is an owner managed business and the team of directors are supported by an experienced management team. Both the head office in Cape Town and the Gauteng operation are staffed by a highly experienced and professional team.
We are a design oriented company constantly researching and developing new products for the current and future office, anticipating and studying changing trends whilst adding our own innovations.
As part of our commitment to ongoing research into improved workspaces, C.O Designs has secured the exclusive license to market the Caimi Brevetti acoustics products in South Africa. In conjunction with our locally designed acoustics products, leading Italian designer, Caimi Brevetti, with their patented Snowsound technology, offers astounding sound absorption properties in beautifully styled panels.
Our Philosophy
At C.O. Designs, we create spaces where people enjoy spending their time. We believe that good design is at the core of this, and that our dedication, attention to detail and personal touch is reflected in all our work.
Integrity
We believe in working closely with our clients, ensuring that designs evolve with their needs. We are committed to clearly define and understand a client's brief, and to find creative and cost effective solutions. Excellent communication skills ensure that we build long-lasting relationships, to which our satisfied clients can testify.
Creativity
We are design orientated. Our focus is to provide solutions through clever design. Good design is more than aesthetics – it’s the integration of beauty and function, the harmony of style and practicality. Our industrial designers closely follow design trends around the world and apply their interpretation to come up with unique solutions.
Productivity
Two fundamental assets within any organisation are its people and the technology that they access. Both are changing more rapidly than at any time in history. Furniture that delivers complete flexibility in use, configuration and arrangement is essential in addressing these changing needs. This requirement is elegantly addressed by the C.O Designs Capsule and Network ranges. Innovative workspace solutions, such as being able to easily move from sitting to standing, such as offered by C.O Designs Easydesk, offers maximum functionality and productivity.
Acoustics
With a growing focus on productivity in the workplace C.O Designs also offers a variety of visually appealing acoustic solutions that help manage excessive noise levels and improve speech intelligibility in any work, meeting or social environment. The aim of which is to provide a more acoustically balanced and comfortable working space.
Value for money
Given the integrated nature of the services and our manufacturing ability, C.O. Designs is able to offer solutions at different budget levels while always offering a transparent pricing model.
Peace of mind
Quality is everything to us, not just with regard to our product, but also our service to the client. We respect and appreciate a client's deadlines and will thus always endeavor to accommodate these through forecasting and personal management.
Environment & sustainability
CO Designs is committed to best environmental practice. We consider environmental effect when we design our furniture and advocate using sustainable materials wherever practical. Where possible, we will promote ecologically friendly products in all aspects of our operation. We aim to minimize the use of materials and resources, thereby reducing our waste to the lowest practical level. Where unavoidable, waste will be evaluated for their re use and recycling potential and the rest will be disposed of responsibly.