Imaginative Environments and surface patterning are essential for the offices of 'ber-hip high-tech companies where youthful, creative employees work long hours. This is just the type of client Studio O+A has been engaging for about 20 years. And whether creating a workplace for an iconic firm like Facebook or Microsoft or a start-up with budget limitations, principals Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander love to push boundaries when it comes to materials'especially the common variety.
The selection is never random, however. According to Alexander, 'First we try to understand the client to glean something unique for design direction.' In the case of Quid, a young analytics company specializing in software for investors in emerging technologies, the San Francisco'based interior designers took their cues from the intellectual Oxford pedigree of the founding partners as well as the graphic potential of their algorithms.
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