When it comes to workspaces, Auto Trader has been credited with providing some of the best in the UK for its employees - and despite not being as large as its much-talked-about London offices, Auto Trader’s Manchester site is no different.

Creatif was lucky enough to work on this initial project when we installed one of our market-leading moving walls. So when Wagstaff Interiors was tasked with delivering additional workspace for the Manchester site, the fit out experts once again sought our expertise when the need for a lightweight room divider within a large, open plan breakout area arose.

In addition to acting as a functional divider of space, a key part of this brief was being able to match the finishes of the wall to the existing soft furnishings.

To tackle this, there was only one choice: Float. The agile panel system divides areas up in a matter of seconds with minimal effort. And so that the walls’ panels matched the interior, Whisper - Creatif’s semi-rigid acoustic panels - was used.

The huge range of colours made matching the furnishings an easy task yet the ability to water-jet cut any shape into the panels left Wagstaff’s design team with some thinking to do. Ultimately, they opted for a simple repeating pattern to allow light transfer within the space.

And with Whisper being a sound absorber, it helped eliminate unwanted noise.