Retail and commercial spaces
A brand's complete store, built to its manual: display cases, counters, paneling and floor. From a single boutique to the whole network.
- Display cases & counters
- Paneling & boiserie
- Wood floor
Buenos Aires · since 1979
We build, install and stand behind the complete fit-out —custom furniture, wall panels and wood floors—, from plan to opening.
01 — The house
An opening date that doesn't move. A millimeter that isn't forgiven. These are the projects we've made since 1979.
A family business, 47 years of craft. Donner was founded in 1979, out of the craft of an Italian family in Buenos Aires, and nearly half a century on it remains in the family's hands. The craft hasn't changed: wood is understood by working it. What changed is the scale.
A project brings together materials that rarely share a supplier: wood, aluminum, iron, glass, upholstery. We answer for them all, from our 2.600 m² facility in Buenos Aires.
An architect of ours follows every project from plan to installation. We don't interpret what the studio draws. We build it.
02 — What we do
From a display case to an entire tower.
We fit out the entire project in wood —furniture, paneling and floors—, made in our own facility and installed by our own team. Each one to its brand's standard.
Jewelry & fine watchmaking
The highest standard. In a watch display case, every joint and every point of light is exposed: that is where the finish is judged.
- Illuminated display cases
- Boiserie & panels
- Finish on show
Hospitality & large projects
Hotels, towers and developments. Lobbies, rooms and surfaces of tens of thousands of square meters, with in-house logistics and installation.
- Lobbies & rooms
- Large surface
- In-house installation
Wood floors
Our own lines —solid and engineered— with the Smart Finish UV coating, developed and applied in-house.
- Solid & engineered
- Eleven woods
- Smart Finish UV
03 — Wood floors
The floor you pass on.
The floor is the most used part of a space, and the first to give it away. That's why it's chosen as a whole —wood, system and finish—: to withstand traffic and time, and be renewed with a sanding rather than a replacement.
Solid
- Hardwood through its full thickness, in a single piece.
- Sanded and renewed up to four times; it lasts generations.
Engineered
- A hardwood layer over a high-density phenolic multi-ply core.
- Sanded and renewed up to three times.
- More stable than a solid of the same dimensions and proportions.
- 71.5% planted, renewable wood.
The finish
Smart Finish UV™, developed in-house.
A coating we developed with nanotechnology and apply to the floor in-house. It arrives finished: it withstands the traffic of a hotel or a store, and adds no drying days to the opening. When the project calls for it, the floor is delivered unfinished, to be completed on site.
- WearWithstands the heavy traffic of a hotel or store without losing its finish.
- UV protectionSlows the darkening of wood caused by sunlight.
- ColorA tone that stays stable over time and repeats across batches, from one room to the next.
The woods
Viraró · Curupay · Burmese Teak · American Oak · French Oak · Olivo · Guatambú · Lapacho · Incienso · Wengué · Palo Santo
04 — Projects
Spaces where wood takes the lead.
Fine-watchmaking boutiques, hotels and flagships for the most demanding houses. A selection from more than 2,800 projects.
05 — Clients
The most demanding brands trust us with their project.
Some of the most notable brands that trusted us with their fit-out. With many, the relationship spans decades: first a boutique, then the entire network.
Watchmaking & fine jewelry
- Vacheron Constantin
- Audemars Piguet
- Richard Mille
- Jaeger-LeCoultre
- Tiffany & Co.
- Montblanc
- Chopard
- Hublot
- Roger Dubuis
- A. Lange & Söhne
- Ulysse Nardin
- OR·Tiffany
- Petit Palais
- Cohiba
Fashion, footwear & beauty
- Dior
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Lacoste
- Emporio Armani
- Hugo Boss
- Armani Exchange
- Kenzo
- Christian Lacroix
- Cacharel
- Rochas
- Levi's
- Barbour
- Tombolini
- Wanama
- Paruolo
- Allô Martínez
- Rouge
Hospitality
- Alvear Icon Hotel & Residences
- Algodon Mansion
- Howard Johnson
- Casa Sur Bellini
- Moreno Hotel Buenos Aires
- Conte Hotel
- El Conquistador Hotel
Real estate & construction
- IRSA
- TGLT
- M&M
Corporate & technology
- MercadoLibre
- Hyundai
- Kohler
- Arcor
- Auchan
Institutional
- La Rural
- UADE
- Museo de los Niños Abasto
06 — Two cases
A network sustained and a piece that never existed.
Two projects, two proofs: that the standard holds at scale, and that what doesn't exist gets built.
International network · Lacoste
Twenty-five years. Over a hundred and fifty stores. Seven countries.
25years
+150stores
7countries
Donner has been an approved international supplier to Lacoste for twenty-five years. In that time it has built and installed the fit-out of more than a hundred and fifty of its stores, across Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala.
More than a hundred and fifty stores aren't one big project repeated: they are a format that is built, replicated and held to the same standard in Santiago, Lima and Panama City. No house of that standing renews a supplier for a quarter of a century if it lets them down.
Development · Facebook
150 acoustic doors. At the height of the pandemic.
150doors
2021delivered
With plants closed and the team working remotely, Facebook commissioned the acoustic doors for its Buenos Aires offices. The specifications came from headquarters in the United States, and no standard system met them: the doors had to be solid —mass is what stops sound—, yet a large-format solid leaf eventually warps, and a warped door no longer seals.
In Argentina, Donner devised its own way of building the leaf to keep it stable over time. When the pandemic delayed local tooling, the logistics were redesigned and the dies were made abroad. All one hundred and fifty doors were delivered on schedule.
07 — How we work
One project, one team accountable.
Five stages, from the on-site survey to final installation, under a single coordination.
Site survey
The space is measured on site and the brand's manual is studied. Nothing is produced from a drawing without checking it first.
Engineering
Cutting list, production drawings and prototype. The tricky joints are solved before the first board is cut.
Production
Cutting, machining, edge-banding and assembly, in-house. Every piece is checked, one by one.
Finishing
Every piece is finished and checked in-house. It ships ready to install, with no rework on site.
Installation
Logistics, installation and final adjustment, with our own team. The project is handed over ready to open.
The facility
2,600 m² of our own facility.
Panel saw, CNC machining center, edge-bander and UV finishing booth. Controlling production from start to finish is what lets us absorb the unexpected without moving the date, and deliver the thirtieth store to the same standard as the first.
That same capacity —an in-house facility and a consolidated supplier network— lets us produce the fit-out of an entire store network in series, without giving up the finish of a one-off piece.
Serial production
Your product. Our plant.
Some companies have a product but not the plant to make it. That is where we come in —private-label, contract manufacturing: we develop it, standardize it and manufacture it in series, with the same finish on the first unit and the thousandth, ready to sell under their own packaging and brand. A broad machine fleet widens what can be produced; a UV lacquer line over twenty-five meters long holds an even finish that few plants match at scale.
- Private-label / OEMA company brings the product; the manufacturing is ours.
- In seriesStandardized and consistent across batches, in volume.
- Under their brandDelivered with the client's packaging and brand.
08 — Reach
We produce in Buenos Aires. We install across the Americas.
We manufacture in Buenos Aires and install on site, with our own team. A brand that repeats its store across nine countries receives it to the same standard in each one.
Facility & offices in Buenos Aires
Projects delivered in
Every shipment travels with its foreign-trade paperwork —customs clearance, packing list—, and installation is carried out by our own team at destination.
09 — Contact
Let's talk about your project.
We work with architecture studios, procurement teams and project leads from the earliest definitions. Write to us with the scope, the timeline and the location, and we'll reply with a concrete proposal.
- Facility & offices
- Bartolomé Mitre 928
Ramos Mejía (B1704) · Buenos Aires · Argentina
- Phone
- +54 11 5263 2619
- info@donner.com.ar
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9–17 h