As the headquarter office of the most prominent design store in China, the office space design seeks to create its own voice --a comfortable yet design-conscious environment through a few featured, elements which work together to define the various working spaces. ...Collapse

The office is roughly divided into 4 zones, the two most prominent being the open exhibition space for furniture/design objects, and the central open office space on a raised wooden platform. This open space is flanked by two sculptural walls, on one side a black board block, and on the other a thick, freestanding wall structure made out of slats of unfinished antique pine. Behind the black board mass lie all the service functions for the office, such as the kitchen, printing room, server storage, and office library. On the opposite side, behind the pine wood wall, contains all the private offices and conference rooms. Perpendicular to these two features is a long low wall of rusted steel facing the exhibition arena below the steps, which also covers the long filing cabinets from the public view. From the central zone, one experiences an open office with blank massing walls, lending the work space a quietness achieved by the hidden supporting functions behind each sculptural walls. ...Collapse