| How We Got Here? | ||
| AVIP is a personal initiative
of its managing director: Frans Spanjaart. A professional with his
heart in the interior design and furniture business. Frans Spanjaart has been working in the profession for more than 30 years. For many of them he worked as a furniture maker and project leader. In 1985 he took the step towards being an independent businessman and started as the managing director with an internationally operating project organizer. |
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| This is how AVIP started |
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His first company was
called Meubel Fabriek, with its base in Beverwijk, Holland, an industrial
town around 20 miles away from Amsterdam. In 1988 Frans merged his
company with two other partners and changed the name of the company
into BASIM Interior Maker. |
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| A staff advertising for BASIM Interior maker | ||
| In 1992, Frans stepped out of the partnership and set up AVIP in Beverwijk. The name AVIP stands for: Advies and Verkoop Van Interior Produkten, which means selling and giving advice for interior products. | ||
| Under his leadership AVIP Holland has realized many interior projects worldwide, including offices, banks, shops, hotels and restaurants. | ||
In 1995, Frans was asked to join a team of designers to work on a design project for about 500 Citibank branches around the world, namely in North America, South America, Middle East, Europe and Asia. During this priod another AVIP branch in Hacketsville, USA was set up. |
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| An AVIP staff in Holland, working on a project | |||
Finally he landed in
Indonesia to build the first Citibank branch in Sudirman. Frans
fell in love with the country and the people, and he decided to
stay and set up another office in Jakarta. |
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| In 1995, he started his office in Jakarta only with 3 staffs, while still working with his Dutch and American teams in finalizing projects outside of Indonesia. | ||
| Five years later Frans decided to stay for good in Indonesia and focus all the activities from Indonesia only and opened the first showroom and office in Permata Hijau to support the growing business in Jakarta. | ||
| The MAIN team of AVIP Interiors Indonesia | ||
By 2006, AVIP owns 2 warehouses and utilize fully 4 floors of the office building. Today, AVIP's staffs numbering almost 50, consisting of designers, engineers, projects managers and administration staffs. Project-oriented teamwork and short, direct lines of communication with a personal touch typify AVIP's working methods. AVIP enjoys meeting the challenge of turning your idea into a creative design and finally materialize it into real end products. |