This confidential tech company has been a longtime Tangram, successfully working together for the last 7 years. Tangram was once again engaged to curate the furniture for their nine-level Los Angeles headquarters.

The concept for the 216,000-square-foot office design centers around these moments of recreation, socialization, and hospitality, providing ways to bring employees together in spaces adjacent to more conventional open office areas with desks and workstations. That was important to the client, since the project consolidated its operations and divisions that had been scattered around other locations in Southern California.

The six floors of offices feature hexagonal workstation layouts in open office areas; this Steelcase system was selected so that desks can be easily added or removed to support team-based working. Instead of continuous open areas surrounding the core, meeting rooms, individual phone booths, and break-out areas were placed throughout the floor plate to divide groups of workstations from one another in a way that supports smaller team-based work.

The use of bronze and brass accents, wood casework and finishes, helped achieve the warm hospitality look and feel the client hoped would counter the usual expectations for a tech company office. Groupings of oversized sofas and lounge chairs, interspersed throughout the work areas, would not be out of place in a hotel lobby.