FF&E-Most of China Interior Designers Do Not Know the Profession
For the overwhelming majority of China interior designers, the first time they hear the term FF&E, they may mistake FF&E for soft furnishing. Only a few interior designers in China who understand this FF&E profession.
So no matter how much you know about FF&E, the following questions will let us have a certain understanding of this profession or re-examine it.
So no matter how much you know about FF&E, the following questions will let us have a certain understanding of this profession or re-examine it.
Why should you know FF&E?
FF&E is the important core that reflects the professionalism and internationalization of an interior design company.
FF&E comes from the pearl of the design world-hospitality design, and FF&E has irreplaceable key factors for designers,hotel owners,hotel brand operators and other parties in the entire interior design system.
Compared with traditional interior design, FF&E design contains more elements. Usually, interface materials, furniture, lamps, sanitary ware, etc. are important content of its design. In addition, FF&E design also includes many elements such as hardware, artwork, switch panel selection, floral planting, and interior fragrance creation.
In the specific interior design, these involved elements cover the treatment of multiple levels of relationship between hotel space, form, color, virtuality and reality. The system controls the relationship between these combinations, can effectively improve the quality of interior design, and realize the unity of interior functions, environmental elements and artistic images.
FF&E comes from the pearl of the design world-hotel design, and FF&E has irreplaceable key factors for designers, owners, brand operators and other parties in the entire interior design system.
FF&E is the important core that reflects the professionalism and internationalization of an interior design company.
FF&E comes from the pearl of the design world-hospitality design, and FF&E has irreplaceable key factors for designers,hotel owners,hotel brand operators and other parties in the entire interior design system.
Compared with traditional interior design, FF&E design contains more elements. Usually, interface materials, furniture, lamps, sanitary ware, etc. are important content of its design. In addition, FF&E design also includes many elements such as hardware, artwork, switch panel selection, floral planting, and interior fragrance creation.
In the specific interior design, these involved elements cover the treatment of multiple levels of relationship between hotel space, form, color, virtuality and reality. The system controls the relationship between these combinations, can effectively improve the quality of interior design, and realize the unity of interior functions, environmental elements and artistic images.
FF&E comes from the pearl of the design world-hotel design, and FF&E has irreplaceable key factors for designers, owners, brand operators and other parties in the entire interior design system.
What Is FF&E?
Definition of FF&E
FF&E is an abbreviation for Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (sometimes also abbreviated as FFE).
FF&E was originally a profession developed from hospitality interior design.
Internationally renowned hospitality design firms all adopt a design system that closely collaborates with FF&E and space design.
For example, HBA, Wilson Associates, Gensler, Yabu Pushelberg, SCDA, Jaya International, LTW, Matin Brudnizki Design Studio, CCD etc.
Definition of FF&E
FF&E is an abbreviation for Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (sometimes also abbreviated as FFE).
FF&E was originally a profession developed from hospitality interior design.
Internationally renowned hospitality design firms all adopt a design system that closely collaborates with FF&E and space design.
For example, HBA, Wilson Associates, Gensler, Yabu Pushelberg, SCDA, Jaya International, LTW, Matin Brudnizki Design Studio, CCD etc.
FF&E Scope of Work
FF&E scope of work not only includes Furniture, Fixture, Equipment (generally including movable furniture, such as casegoods, seating,decorative lamps, curtains, carpets, artworks, green flowers, sanitary ware, hardware, switch panels, etc.) but also hard decorative surface materials for indoor spaces.
In short, FF&E includes all the colors, materials, and movable contents that our eyes and bodies can touch. These contents directly affect people's five-sense experience and aesthetic appeal.
In short, FF&E includes all the colors, materials, and movable contents that our eyes and bodies can touch. These contents directly affect people's five-sense experience and aesthetic appeal.
Refinement and Division of Interior Design
As people's requirements for the quality of life are getting higher and higher, the requirements for interior design are also getting higher and higher, not only the pursuit of function and comfort, but also the needs for artistry and personality are constantly escalating.
In a interior design company that adopts the FF&E design system, the space designer and the FF&E designer work together in a division of labor, communicate and cooperate closely to complete the design and implementation of a project.
In a interior design company that adopts the FF&E design system, the space designer and the FF&E designer work together in a division of labor, communicate and cooperate closely to complete the design and implementation of a project.
FF&E Design Process
According to internationally accepted procedures, interior design is mainly divided into five stages:
Conceptual design-preliminary scheme design-intensified design-construction-installation rectification
FF&E begins to intervene in the first stage of conceptual design and plays a pivotal role. Under the leadership of the designer, FF&E is responsible for the research and refinement of cultural clues, the selection of conceptual pictures and the arrangement of moodboard, and the space design is responsible for the layout.
In the end, the team will complete an intuitive and clear concept aiming at clear logic, visual art, and outline the future design effects of the entire space. This design concept also will be the soul of the design and the guiding direction and strategy of the entire design.
Conceptual design-preliminary scheme design-intensified design-construction-installation rectification
FF&E begins to intervene in the first stage of conceptual design and plays a pivotal role. Under the leadership of the designer, FF&E is responsible for the research and refinement of cultural clues, the selection of conceptual pictures and the arrangement of moodboard, and the space design is responsible for the layout.
In the end, the team will complete an intuitive and clear concept aiming at clear logic, visual art, and outline the future design effects of the entire space. This design concept also will be the soul of the design and the guiding direction and strategy of the entire design.
Case 1: The Lalu Qingdao Hotel By Kerry Hill
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Source of Inspiration
Special Details
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Lamp Intention
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Moodboard
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The preliminary plan design of the second stage is the performance of the main space renderings.
At this time, what the architectural space looks like, what materials, furniture, and what kind of artworks are displayed, what is the relationship between them and the space.All of these must be reflected in the renderings.
At this time, what the architectural space looks like, what materials, furniture, and what kind of artworks are displayed, what is the relationship between them and the space.All of these must be reflected in the renderings.
Yabu Pushelberg: Banquet Front Hall Renderings of Conrad Hotel Shenzhen
Yabu Pushelberg: Banquet Front Hall Material Board of Conrad Hotel Shenzhen
DDC-Dome Design Consultant: Finishing Materials Specification of Myanmar Traders Hotel
DDC-Dome Design Consultant: Finishing Materials Specification of Myanmar Traders Hotel
Deepening the design stage, FF&E work can better reflect the professionalism and meticulousness of interior design.
All design content must be described in detail and accurately in the FF&E specification sheet.
Even if you are not the main FF&E designer himself, as long as you hold a set of qualified FF&E specification sheet to control and follow the instructions, the effect will not be much worse.
The process of making the ff&e specification sheet is the process of interior design deepening,design drawings of customized products,material, what kind of wood, what type of fabric to choose, friction coefficient, fire resistance, etc.,
In short, the issues involved in the production and delivery process will basically be considered and explained in detail at this stage.
All design content must be described in detail and accurately in the FF&E specification sheet.
Even if you are not the main FF&E designer himself, as long as you hold a set of qualified FF&E specification sheet to control and follow the instructions, the effect will not be much worse.
The process of making the ff&e specification sheet is the process of interior design deepening,design drawings of customized products,material, what kind of wood, what type of fabric to choose, friction coefficient, fire resistance, etc.,
In short, the issues involved in the production and delivery process will basically be considered and explained in detail at this stage.
The Essence of FF&E Design
FF&E is actually a set of working modes based on professionalism and detailed collaboration of interior design, but from the analysis of FF&E design method, it is actually a research-based design logic.
Where is the source of inspiration for design? There are generally two types of inspiration abroad: one is research, where some clues are found through research and then developed into design elements and forms of expression; the other is fantasy,some unique designs come from the designer's personal idea.
FF&E itself is a part of interior design. Who will do it is not the focus, but the focus is how to do it. From the design concept to the final completion, the design logic of FF&E is very clear and rigorous. Even if one person completes a small project, the process and methods of FF&E are also universal.
Where is the source of inspiration for design? There are generally two types of inspiration abroad: one is research, where some clues are found through research and then developed into design elements and forms of expression; the other is fantasy,some unique designs come from the designer's personal idea.
FF&E itself is a part of interior design. Who will do it is not the focus, but the focus is how to do it. From the design concept to the final completion, the design logic of FF&E is very clear and rigorous. Even if one person completes a small project, the process and methods of FF&E are also universal.
Who is a professional hotel FF&E manufacturer in China?
Bestar Hospitality is a leading hospitality FF&E manufacturer in China offering a complete turnkey solution for the furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) requirement of hospitality industry.
Bestar Hospitality specializes in manufacturing of furniture, casework, lighting, and turnkey interior contracting of full FF&E supply and fit-out for hotels, restaurants, and other commercial facilities.We work for owners and contractors to deliver quality custom products manufactured to the unique specifications of architects and interior designers. We have over 20 years of experience and track record of successful hotel furniture projects as a leading manufacturer & supplier of FF&E products.
We manufacture both contract furniture and mid to high volume production of quality goods. Our custom manufacturing process is a combination of handmade work by skilled craftsman and state of the art technology allowing us to accommodate all unique designs and specifications. Our team creates top quality one of a kind pieces for the most discerning clients.
Through experience, we have created a comprehensive turnkey process of services that take projects from start to finish with the driving principles of providing superior quality with competitive pricing and on-time delivery.
Bestar Hospitality specializes in manufacturing of furniture, casework, lighting, and turnkey interior contracting of full FF&E supply and fit-out for hotels, restaurants, and other commercial facilities.We work for owners and contractors to deliver quality custom products manufactured to the unique specifications of architects and interior designers. We have over 20 years of experience and track record of successful hotel furniture projects as a leading manufacturer & supplier of FF&E products.
We manufacture both contract furniture and mid to high volume production of quality goods. Our custom manufacturing process is a combination of handmade work by skilled craftsman and state of the art technology allowing us to accommodate all unique designs and specifications. Our team creates top quality one of a kind pieces for the most discerning clients.
Through experience, we have created a comprehensive turnkey process of services that take projects from start to finish with the driving principles of providing superior quality with competitive pricing and on-time delivery.