Bafco recently installed its newly designed Plan-it range of panel-based operative furniture in the offices of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

DIFC designer Abul Malik said Bafco was selected because it could offer high-quality furniture customised to suit his organisation’s needs.
“We wanted the furniture specifically customised with colours we chose, with high panels for privacy and representing a rectangular and modern shape,” Malik said.
Bafco’s Plan-it furniture was designed by Bafco’s head designer Jamal Kabbani, who graduated from Beirut’s Fine Arts College.
Jamal has led the Bafco design team since 2001 and applies his artistic background to furniture design.
Plan-it provides modular solutions that cater to any workspace from small to large organisations and provides ease of reconfiguration through the use of sophisticated clip-tile panels.
The system also offers advanced cable management capabilities and superior acoustics control to make the workspace more efficient.
Jamal believes that every element of design such as shape and colour should be suited to the end user, and it should go beyond aesthetic appeal by fully satisfying functionality.
“In our quest to provide optimal solutions to our customers, we have researched the furniture market worldwide from the US and Europe to the Far East in order to develop our furniture designs,” he said.
“The furniture can be suited to any style of office and represents elements of modernity but still controls ergonomics and functionality to suit every individual.”
With the Gulf booming economically, and new offices and residential apartments coming up as part of a new wave of prosperity, the region’s furniture tastes have become increasingly sophisticated, interior decoration analysts say.