When a global insurance company needed a Dallas locker installation to match their premium brand — and outshine even their own Chicago flagship — HAMILTON delivered. 347 lockers designed to be a design focal point, not a utility fixture.
The same global insurance company behind HAMILTON's Chicago flagship chose the same architect for their Dallas office — but this time brought a larger budget and a clear ambition: make the lockers a design focal point, not just a storage solution. The result is 347 lockers that HAMILTON's own team describes as some of the most distinctive and premium they have ever created.
Working in close collaboration with the client and architect, HAMILTON developed multiple full design concepts before the final direction was selected. The team explored finishes, configurations, and color combinations until landing on a combination that no one in the room had seen before in a locker context.
The locker doors are faced in Wilsonart Traceless HPL in Charcoal Velvet — a rich, dark matte surface engineered to resist fingerprints and smudges. In a 347-locker system used daily by a large workforce, this is not a cosmetic choice: it means the installation looks as pristine on month twelve as it did on day one, without requiring constant cleaning attention from the facilities team.
The defining design element is the 3mm PVC edge banding in Abet Laminati Viola Madris — a vivid purple-violet selected to match the company's brand color exactly. Against the Charcoal Velvet doors and set against the office's orange accent walls in surrounding corridors, this edge banding appears to glow. The contrast is striking and intentional: elegant where it needs to be, bold where it counts. The touch displays on each locker unit are also customized to reflect the company's brand image, creating a fully coherent brand expression from every angle.
Multiple locker sizes are available throughout the installation, operated on an honor-system day-use basis: employees arrive and choose the locker size that matches their daily need — larger for heavy coat and bag days, smaller for lighter days. No permanent assignments, no wasted capacity.
"Some of the most distinctive and premium lockers we've created so far."— HAMILTON project team, Dallas installation
Charcoal Velvet HPL doors with Abet Laminati Viola Madris edge banding — a purple that appears to glow against the office's orange corridor walls.
Confidential global insurance company — same client and same architect as the Chicago flagship installation.
Larger budget than Chicago. The instruction was clear: make the lockers a genuine design focal point, not a utility fixture bolted to a corridor wall.
347 premium lockers in Wilsonart Traceless HPL with vivid brand-color 3mm PVC edge banding and customized touch displays. An installation the HAMILTON team calls among the finest they have produced.
Global Insurance · Dallas, TX · Same architect as Chicago and Jersey City offices
Premium workplace lockers are not an accident. These are the three deliberate design decisions that elevated this Dallas installation above any locker project the client had seen before.
Standard laminate locker doors show fingerprints. In a high-traffic 347-locker installation, that means a corridor that looks perpetually dirty unless facilities teams are cleaning constantly. Wilsonart Traceless HPL is engineered to prevent fingerprints and smudges — the matte Charcoal Velvet surface stays pristine under daily use without special treatment.
This is a practical choice dressed in a premium finish: sophisticated appearance and real operational benefit in the same material decision.
The edge banding on a locker door is typically an afterthought — a thin strip of matching or neutral material that disappears into the overall surface. In Dallas, HAMILTON used 3mm PVC edge banding in Abet Laminati Viola Madris, a vivid purple-violet matched precisely to the company's brand color.
Against the Charcoal Velvet door faces and the office's orange accent walls, this edge appears to glow — creating a striking visual effect that signals brand identity the moment someone enters the corridor. Elegant, bold, and unmistakably intentional.
Every locker in the day-use system includes a touch display — the interface through which employees select and claim their locker for the day. In most installations, these displays are generic: black or silver hardware with a standard UI. In Dallas, HAMILTON customized each touch display to reflect the company's brand image: colors, interface style, and visual language all aligned to the client's identity standards.
The result is a locker system that feels like an extension of the brand, not technology grafted onto a cabinet.
Dallas was the premium flagship — but the same global insurance company chose HAMILTON for two other US offices, each designed to the local space while meeting the same national locker standard.
The Chicago office was the original flagship: a 3-floor smart locker rollout with integrated seating and smart closets throughout. 505 lockers built to the national standard that HAMILTON established as the firm's US benchmark — the installation that set the template for Dallas and Jersey City to follow.
A smaller-footprint NYC metro installation serving both employees and single-day visitors. Designed by a different architect than Chicago and Dallas, the Jersey City office applied the same national locker standard to a compact space — demonstrating the flexibility of HAMILTON's system across very different floor plan constraints.
HAMILTON's Dallas installation for a global insurance company is widely regarded as one of the most design-forward workplace locker projects the company has ever delivered. The 347 lockers feature Wilsonart Traceless HPL doors in Charcoal Velvet — a fingerprint-resistant surface that stays pristine in heavy-use corridors — combined with 3mm PVC edge banding in Abet Laminati Viola Madris, a vivid purple that visually glows against the office's orange accent walls. Multiple design concepts were explored collaboratively with the client and architect before landing on this signature look. The result is a locker system that functions as a deliberate design focal point rather than a utility fixture.
HAMILTON collaborates with the client's architects and interior designers from the earliest concept phase, well before specifications are finalized. For the Dallas project, this meant developing multiple full design concepts and presenting them to the client team before selecting the final direction. Finish matching uses precision-selected HPL surfaces from manufacturers like Wilsonart and edge banding from Abet Laminati, chosen to align with the company's exact brand color palette. Touch displays on the lockers are also customized to display brand-consistent colors and UI. HAMILTON supplies Revit and CAD files throughout the design process to keep the project fully coordinated.
Wilsonart Traceless HPL (High Pressure Laminate) is a premium door surface specifically engineered to resist fingerprints and smudges. Unlike standard laminate, which shows every handprint and requires constant cleaning in high-traffic corridors, Traceless HPL maintains a clean, matte appearance with normal use. HAMILTON selected the Charcoal Velvet colorway for the Dallas installation because it provides a sophisticated dark finish that complements the vivid purple edge banding while remaining fingerprint-free — a practical necessity for a 347-locker system used daily by a large workforce.
Yes. The majority of HAMILTON's construction work is completed at our US Midwest manufacturing facility before the lockers ever arrive on site. This prefabrication approach means on-site installation in occupied Dallas offices is fast — typically measured in days per area, not weeks — with minimal dust, noise, and disruption to ongoing business operations. Our team coordinates installation schedules with your facilities management to minimize impact on employees and avoid interrupting critical business functions.
In an honor-system day-use model, lockers are unassigned — no employee permanently owns a specific locker. Instead, employees arrive each morning and choose an available locker in the size that fits their day's needs: a full-height locker on days they have a bag and coat, a smaller locker on lighter days. Selection is made at a touch display, which then locks and assigns the unit to the employee's badge or credentials for that day. At the end of the day, the locker is cleared and returned to the available pool. This model typically requires only 60–70% as many lockers as permanent-assignment systems, reducing cost and floor space requirements while ensuring every employee always has appropriate storage.
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