Design · production · installation across Europe
Buy the technical certainty that your stand will exist exactly as you approved it.
Fixed quote, no strings attached · Limited number of projects per show
Approving a design in a meeting is the easy part; what counts happens in the hall. We make sure that what you saw in the project is exactly what you find when you arrive at the show: perfect, finished and ready to sell.
The mirror
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Approving a striking design on a screen is easy; the hard part is building it with no drift and no surprises. We do not design to win a render competition with impossible ideas that later inflate the budget or get built badly: we design with technical judgement and a real budget. What you approve on the drawings is, to the millimetre, what you will find built in the hall, flawless and ready to sell.
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Many agencies sell off the drawings and then subcontract the cheapest installer they can find in the destination country. We do not play the lottery with strangers: we have spent almost two decades walking the halls of Europe with our own fixed network of workshops, hauliers and specialists in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal, every one of them picked with a magnifying glass. Knowing exactly who will be on site sorting out each detail is the only thing that guarantees your peace of mind before the doors open.
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In an exhibition hall every square metre counts: putting up a container is not enough. At Nosolostands we simulate your catalogue to the millimetre inside the project, so the sightlines, the light points and the flow of people are settled in advance. We design with your product inside from day one, and we stay on site the day before so that placing it is only the finishing touch on a plan that already works.
Here is what that looks like on a real project: the render with the final graphics applied, and the plan where every plinth is numbered with the product that sits on it.
Designing is not executing
Choosing who builds your stand cannot come down to a nice picture on a screen. The real question is who is behind it once the project is signed: whether you will have a single technical contact from start to finish, whether they will adapt every corner to your product step by step, or whether they will hand the work over to people you have never met. At Nosolostands we do not sell screens; we answer in person, from the first drawing to the last screw.
You bring us the show
First of all
You tell us which products you are taking, which ones have to be seen no matter what and what you want to happen over those three days. The more detail, the fewer surprises later.
Once the briefing is settled
We design the stand with every product placed: none of them is left without a spot. We suggest how to group your ranges and how to display them, and the project is refined with your changes.
Once the design is approved
The architect breaks the whole stand down, piece by piece. Those drawings are the instructions the workshop builds from and the crew installs from, with nothing left to interpretation.
Before anything is manufactured
We sit whoever drew the construction set with whoever did the design and check that what is drawn can be built exactly like that. Every drawing is numbered and dated, so you and the suppliers always look at the same version.
When your files arrive
We apply the final graphics over the render, check that they fit every surface and go through lighting and technical detail before anything is printed.
With the show deadlines closing in
We handle the show's forms and their deadlines, the ones that carry fines if they are missed: drawings, heights, loads, services and insurance.
Days before opening
Our own crew and a site supervisor in the hall. You get photos of the build every day, so you always know how it is going.
The day before, and the last day
We hand the stand over the day before, clean and lit, with time for you to receive it. When the show closes we come back and take everything down.
The doors open
We are not a macro-agency with sales reps in suits. We are a small outfit involved in every phase: the person you talk to is the person on the build.
We do not take on everything that comes in. We only take the stands we can oversee from start to finish, because it is the only way to be at every build and answer for every detail.
The earlier a project comes in, the more room there is in everything that follows: the design is decided without shortcuts, the workshop works without rush surcharges and the transport arrives with time to spare. For a November show we want the stand signed off in July, because August sits in the middle.
Local intelligence
At an international show the biggest risk is not the materials: it is not knowing how the people on the floor think, negotiate and react in each country. Running a build at Fira de Barcelona is nothing like dealing with the pace of BolognaFiere, and neither of them is anything like the technical rigidity of a German hall.
The company's management is Italian and we work with suppliers from both countries. In Italy we are not a foreign supplier flying in: we know the rhythms, we know who to push and how a problem with the local trades gets unblocked in the ninetieth minute.
We work in Spanish, Catalan, English and above all Italian. No translating emails, no misunderstandings halfway through the project, which is exactly where the expensive mistakes creep in.
We do not just build structures: we take the cultural friction out of every hall in Europe.
The load test
The best guarantee of execution is not what we say, it is what leading industrial, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and water brands do when their key show comes round.
Brands that started with us almost twenty years ago and still count on the same team at every edition.
Machinery running inside the stand, industrial regulations, calculated loads and venue deadlines that do not allow a single day's delay.
Large stands in Nuremberg, Bologna, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid and Barcelona, edition after edition.
Some of the brands that keep coming back
Shows and venues we work in regularly
Not just stands.
A stand is not four empty walls: it is how your brand is wrapped for three days. The light, the height of a counter, where people walk in, everything is decided by looking at your product, because what is inside speaks about you.
Before you decide
This is everything that sits between the empty floor space the organiser assigned you and a stand that opens on day one.
We take care of absolutely everything to do with the stand.
All twenty-eight line items, first to last. You approve the render, tell us the colour and turn up on opening day: one company, one contract and one phone number to call.
Ideas
Pick what you actually need from those three days and we'll show you what can be done with your floor space. A stand isn't designed for the sake of it: it's designed against an objective.
A show aisle is walked in ten seconds. Everything below is there to make someone stop at your space instead of the one next door.
A tall volume, a flat colour and a single sentence. What reads from far away isn't your catalogue: it's what you do.
Counter in the corner, entrance clear. A counter across the mouth of a stand stops 40% of the people who were walking in.
A machine running, a screen with real motion, a demo every half hour. The eye goes to movement long before it goes to text.
Venues light everything flat and grey. With directional lighting your space looks switched on and the one next door looks switched off.
What we do
From the first sketch to the warehouse where your stand waits between shows. One contract and one point of contact, with no subcontractors blaming each other.
Before anything is built you see the stand from the inside, in your colours and with your products in place. What you approve in the render is what we build in our own workshop: counters, displays, cabinets, furniture and structures.
Print, vinyl, tensioned fabric and 3D lettering, with the colour calibrated against your brand manual rather than something close to it. Directional spots and backlit panels, the line item that changes a photograph the most. Screens and sound installed, configured and tested the day before.
Drawings, heights, loads, fire certificates, insurance and each show's deadlines. We file all of it — this is where projects usually fall apart.
Our own crew on site, carpet, furniture and plants placed exactly as the signed plan says, handover the day before and removal at closing. If the stand is reusable, we store it until the next show.
How we work
From the first call until the hall is empty again. Every step has a deadline and someone responsible for it, and that someone is us.
Which show, how many square metres, what you're bringing and what you're going for. Plus two things: the floor plan the venue gave you and the budget you are working with. With those we can design your actual stand and show it to you; without a budget all you get is pretty drawings that don't fit.
3D render, dimensioned plan and a quote with every line item broken down. What it says is what gets invoiced.
We file drawings, heights and materials, order the utilities and arrange the insurance. You never talk to the organiser.
The whole stand is assembled at our premises before it ships. We send you photos of the dry build.
We build with our own crew and hand over the day before: every light and every screen switched on and tested, not one cable showing, the carpet trimmed and the product at eye level. We go through the list with you there if you want.
We take everything down at closing and leave the space as we found it. You do not have to stay behind waiting for anyone.
Private area
Inside there are photos and video of finished stands, with the square metres, the show and what each one included. It isn't public because some clients would rather their stand didn't circulate online — and looking after them is part of the job.
Questions
The earlier the better: six months is ideal. With time, the design doesn't need shortcuts, materials can be chosen properly and the venue's deadlines stop being a problem. We also work with less, and have done many times: it changes the materials and the transport, not the result. If you're tight, call anyway and we'll tell you honestly whether we can make it.
It depends on the square metres and what goes inside, so any figure here would be a lie. What we do promise: a fixed, itemised quote, and what it says is what gets invoiced. If your ceiling is X, we design for X.
Yes — it's a good part of what we do. We install in any European venue, we speak your language and we handle the paperwork with the organiser. You don't have to travel for the build: we send photos and video every day.
We do. Drawings, height, loads, material certificates, utilities and installation insurance. You sign whatever has to be signed and nothing else.
It can be designed for that from the start, with a modular structure and interchangeable graphics. We store it in our warehouse and adapt it each year to whatever space you get.
The floor plan the organiser gave you, your logo in vector format, the budget you're working with and half an hour of conversation. We propose everything else.
Let's talk
If what you are after is a stand that gets executed without cracks, let's talk. We take on a fixed number of builds per show and per date, so tell us which event you have and we will see whether we can take it on at the level we demand.
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