Studio Joanna Laajisto | A Novel Finnish Domicile For A Global Pattern Consultancy

When Fjord, 1 of the world’s leading pattern together with excogitation consultancies, grew out of its Helsinki premises, it needed a novel infinite that would reverberate the Fjord brand together with experience similar abode to its employees from around the world. Having worked alongside the Helsinki-based Studio Joanna Laajisto before, Fjord knew that they had constitute a designer who could interpret Fjord construct characteristics into interior pattern principles.

“Elegant, unconventional together with human – those were the starting points of our pattern process" says Joanna Laajisto who designed Fjord’s minimal together with warm studio inwards cardinal Helsinki. "This is an role primarily made for employees to experience at home, together with the wow component subdivision for outsiders comes from what the infinite feels like, non exactly from its looks.”

Furnished alongside high quality, natural materials such every bit oak flooring alongside sound-absorbing underlay together with sisal carpet, the studio is bathed inwards natural light. One of my favourite features is the fragile metallic room dividers. Designed to permit for the low-cal to time period through the spaces, the improver of linen curtains ensures privacy when needed. Rather than edifice a traditional office, the aim was to exercise an approachable, homelike workspace together with this tin sure hold upwardly seen throughout. In improver to dissimilar kitchen together with lounge spaces suitable for collaboration, the offices include creative operate together with casual hang-outs. Privacy tin hold upwardly constitute inwards comfortable outcry upwardly booths lined alongside Kvadrat’s acoustic Soft Cell panels.

Most of the materials together with pieces of slice of furniture are of Finnish origin, inwards draw of piece of occupation alongside the wishes of Fjord Helsinki. Meeting rooms are furnished alongside Artek Rival chairs, the living rooms’ large carpets are from Woodnotes, together with the Knoll’s Womb chairs were designed past times Finnish designer Eero Saarinen. The living rooms are every bit good fitted alongside smasher PJ01 lamps, designed past times Joanna Laajisto together with designer Pasi Kärkkäinen. The gorgeous light-green kitchens blend inwards alongside the natural materials together with are furnished alongside Ilmari Tapiovaara’s Domus chairs every bit good every bit oak tables together with benches from Nikari.

“Our people are really proud of our novel role infinite together with they are constantly inviting people to come upwardly together with encounter it,” says Stéphanie Del Rey from Fjord Helsinki. “When planning the infinite together with its furniture, nosotros wanted it to hold upwardly really adaptive. Now nosotros tin utilization our infinite inwards diverse versatile ways: people fifty-fifty utilization it inwards their spare fourth dimension for film nights together with casual hang-outs!”