MM Penthouse Office
The new office concept is inspired by the aesthetic of Scarpa’s interiors from the 1960s. The re-design of this penthouse floor with a private office, meeting room and the reception area seeks to reinstate the traditional, ceremonial experience of classical space and to re-establish a sense of timeless-ness, a global identity for the client who is the CEO of a major shipping company.
A series of walnut walls define the perimeters of the private office. These walls are articulated with niches arranged along a spine of vertical&horizontal brass strips. Some are display niches for artwork, some are recesses for a TV, some with glass and some backed with fine leather. The door is also a part of the wall, almost unidentifiable as a door but more like a work of art itself. Bent brass sections act as lighting elements a brass lath wall marks the background for the client’s desk. A natural stone base that displays a rhythm through honed and polished surfaces curves around the room. In the central space, a skylight painted in decorative plaster sheds burgundy lights into the room. Ozge led Eaa design team.
walnut, bronze and dark olive natural stone details
These walls are made of natural stone at the bottom, walnut and bronze strips that either form a grid that turns into niches or lighting.
from rendering to end product.
Details matter
light
The skylight is designed to allow indirect light wash the interiors in soft bronze colors, an effect of the bronze venetian plaster.
depth
Bronze strips inset into wood panels meet the bronze framed niches that hold the objet d’art.
continuity
Idea of continuity is key on the design; the bronze lines also turn into lighting elements that protrude from the wall.
Project designed at EAA. Ozge Ertoptamis, Team Leader-in-Charge of design