Quick-step
Floor designer

In 2015, Quick-Step cycled to Paris Design Week, where a trend studio was installed in Le Marais in the heart of the city. From that moment onwards, Quick-Step began to focus more and more on creating interior experiences rather than simply presenting its flooring samples. In its Paris trend studio, Quick-Step’s mood boards came to life to show visitors how an international flooring collection is created. A combination of photos, samples, mood boards, sketches and the final result offered a unique behind-the-scenes insight and experience.

Quick-Step has been a renowned producer of high-quality vinyl, parquet, and laminate flooring for years. Recently, however, it has also been trying to communicate that it offers more than just technically strong products. Floors are incredibly important for interior ambiance, so as a flooring expert, Quick-Step can most certainly call itself a seasoned interior brand. From the 2019 Signature collection onwards, there has been a focus on trend-watching in Quick-Step’s activities, from trade fair stands to campaigns and activations.

Signature is the vinyl collection that King George set to work with. We placed mirrors in the decor to magnify and draw attention to the floor. This enabled the audience to realize that the floor dominates in all kinds of interiors, from modern to industrial, dark to light. And just like that, the link to interior trends was made, while the product remained the prominent feature.

For this, King George chose the location, managed the art direction and photo shoot, and devised the storytelling.

Batibouw is one of the annual highlights for interior brands and construction firms, including for Quick-Step. Although it can feel like a thorn in your side when your stand doesn’t stick out head and shoulders above the rest! Using the Signature collection and the campaign we had already developed for it, King George deployed mirrors at Batibouw. “We created trend boxes in a series of containers,” explains Nicolas Block, founder of King George. “We brought the images we had created for the campaign to life in real decors.” This allowed visitors to walk into the interiors and experience their ambiance for themselves.

With the closure of gyms and other sporting facilities during the pandemic, both professional cyclists and amateurs aiming to go pro went in search of a worthy alternative. One of the break-out sporting trends of 2020 and 2021 were pain caves. A pain cave is a space in a house that is entirely fitted out as a home gym, with benches, running and cycling facilities and even swimming pools. As the main sponsor of The Wolfpack, Quick-Step cheers on a number of cycling legends from the sidelines. To encourage them to train at home, and to once again profile itself as an interior brand, the company asked King George’s interior designers to set up pain caves in several cyclists’ homes.

Julian Alaphilippe, Zdenek Stybar, Pieter Serry, and Fabio Jakobsen have been cycling up the highest virtual mountains in their home gyms!

For sponsors, springtime’s time-honored cycling events are perfect moments to raise brand awareness, as the whole world is glued to their screens. For the press conference at Paris-Roubaix, Quick-Step wanted a stage with a nod to Bar Vélo, without the Airstream being physically present. Using moulds and cut-out floors, King George recreated the coffee bar, including its young and fresh colours and materials.

Behind this exciting timeline lies a carefully thought-out strategy. For several years now, we have been working together to construct an interior brand that responds to – and even determines – the latest trends. This strategy translates into a digital and social strategy. Quick-Step has plenty to say, and we amplify those messages online. We build a bridge between the company’s cycling story and its trend story, striking just the right balance.