ROOM learned the hard way that privacy without airflow is a terrible office perk. Its answer now arrives flat-packed: movable, sound-dampened rooms that ask companies to treat floor plans as drafts, not monuments.
A storage building becomes an art gallery. A working winery becomes a place to linger. Inside the Los Angeles studio finding new uses for buildings that already have a past.
A noisy corridor, a rescued floorboard, an owl in a reading room. Rapt Studio uses the small details of working life to ask a bigger question: what should a company feel like from the inside?
A Steelcase dealer built a broader business by taking on the awkward parts of an office project: custom furniture, tangled technology and the move itself. Its best work starts with how people actually use a room.
A century of modernism now runs through one portfolio - from Aeron chairs and Knoll classics to textiles, healthcare rooms and home stores. The bet is that the future of furniture belongs to a company that can sell an object, furnish a building and explain why the room should work that way.