Scope of Work
FF&E Procurement
Desk systems, reception counter, lounge seating, meeting table, pendant lighting, shelving units and storage. A single consolidated specification across residential and contract manufacturers.
Bespoke Elements
The reception counter — marble top, natural-timber base, brass detail — was produced by a local craftsman to a custom specification. The accent-wall plasterwork was executed by a specialist decorator, with the pigment mix developed across three rounds of samples.
Materials & Finishes
The green decorative plaster for the accent wall required sourcing a specialist applicator and developing a custom pigment mix. Brass fixtures and fittings were specified across multiple suppliers to hold a consistent tone throughout.
Coordination
Full coordination with the fit-out contractor, electrician and decorator to sequence wall plaster, built-in shelving and furniture within one uninterrupted site program.
The Approach
The skylights changed everything. Natural light from above — the kind that falls vertically and shifts through the day — gave the space a quality most offices never achieve. The design decision was to protect it: keep surfaces pale, keep furniture low, keep the perimeter wall clear.
The accent wall was the exception — and it became the project’s defining element. Running the full length of the studio, finished in a deep-toned plaster that reads like compressed moss, it anchors the space without darkening it. Against it, the natural-timber shelving and marble reception counter read as warmth rather than weight. Brass details were introduced sparingly, as punctuation rather than pattern.
The storage strategy was resolved through floor-to-ceiling shelving along the main wall: open enough to display the studio’s reference material, structured enough to contain it. No additional decoration was needed — the objects themselves become the interior.
The meeting zone at the rear was treated as a separate register: a large oval table, generous upholstered chairs, a single statement pendant. A space that signals attention.
Challenges
The green wall
Decoratively plastered walls are common. A specific shade of green — one that reads like natural stone and shifts between gray and deep olive depending on the light — is not. Three sample rounds, two pigment suppliers, one specialist applicator. The result is unrepeatable, which is exactly the point.
The sequencing
The accent-wall plaster had to be applied before the shelving was installed; the shelving before the furniture was delivered; the furniture before the client’s opening. This kind of dependency chain requires the entire program mapped from the end date backwards — which we do as a matter of course, but which too many procurement processes ignore until it becomes a problem.
The skylights and the leather
Direct overhead sun on a leather sofa in a top-floor Zurich studio is a problem waiting to happen. The lounge zone was positioned to sit outside the skylight’s fall zone — a detail that required the furniture layout to be confirmed before the fit-out began, not after.
A studio that works like a studio and feels like nowhere else. The green wall became the thing every client mentions first. The shelving does what shelving should: it disappears into the space while holding everything together.
Project in Numbers
Client Note
The brief was difficult — a lot of storage, strong atmosphere, nothing excessive. They understood immediately what that meant and didn’t need us to explain it twice. The wall alone was worth the project.