08/31/2015

INDUSTRIAS TAGAR

What strikes you immediately about Industrias Tagar is the breadth of its product offer. Whether you're a business looking to furnish offices, a corporate HQ needing stylish boardroom furniture, a hotel needing furniture for the lobby or a nursery wanting fun, imaginative and super sturdy furniture for tiny tots, well, Tagar can help.

And if you're a library user, you can hope that when your branch needs refurbishing it goes to Tagar, which has recently launched Babilon, a complete library furniture collection that is a far cry from characterless shelves and brown melamine topped tables that have long held residence in libraries the world over.

Babilon is the work of top contemporary designer Aitor García de Vicuña, who wanted to create furniture that suits the often striking modern architecture of new libraries and art/cultural centres that have been built in cities around the world since the start of the new millennium. Shelving sits on raised steel legs to give a floating effect and the units are made from white MDF with a subtle abstract decorative pattern on the side panels.

Babilon offers the whole works: book shelving, desks, audio visual equipment stands, tables and benches. Marisol Garcia at Tagar says it's perfect for clients who want an integrated system, while it has the advantage that you can add to it piecemeal if budgets don't allow a full refurbishment in one go often with libraries, you find a strange mismatch of furniture that's been put together over time because manufacturers haven't offered a complete range of library furniture.

The collection also features toddler height bookshelves which work well with de Vicuña's fun and very successful Dreams collection of furniture for playgroups and primary schools.

It comprises tables with colourful worktops which are adhered to a central support in shapes children love, such as aeroplanes, trains, trees or animals.

Tagar Industries was founded half a century ago initially to manufacture furniture for hotels and contract furniture remains a key part of the business. But the company strives to offer distinctive as well as highly functional design. The Singular chair by Manuel Torres Design is a good example and one that lives up to its name. The chair is stackable and uses wood for the backrest with an upholstered seat, while the steel frame can come in many colours.

Tagar has a turnover of some four million euros and it exports to 20 countries. Garcia says the economic situation is improving steadily in Spain and overseas and clients are starting to put quality ahead of price, though price is, of course, key. All Tagar products are manufactured in Spain and 65 per cent of materials used are sourced in Spain, with the remainder coming from Germany and Portugal. Most materials that go into Tagar furniture are recyclable: products can be easily dismantled and components go back into the manufacturing cycle. Garcia says the company's aftersales service has won it many long standing customers, and having its own manufacturing capability allows it to respond quickly to clients' orders. Tagar launches new products annually and it exhibits at the Milan Furniture Fair, Orgatec in Cologne and the Index in Dubai.

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