Anne Claus Interiors places candy-striped onyx bar inside &C’s Amsterdam workplace

Pastel-hued surfaces and vibrant onyx function in a hybrid workplace, retailer and cafe in Amsterdam, designed by Anne Claus Interiors.

Created for media firm &C, the 600-square-metre workspace takes over the bottom ground of an previous bicycle manufacturing facility within the metropolis’s Pijp neighbourhood.

Regardless of its small footprint, the workplace includes a retailer, espresso store, kitchen, two assembly rooms and 25 work stations.

The administrators of &C – Dutch actress and presenter Chantal Janzen and her husband Marco Geeratz – requested Anne Claus Interiors to make a “joyful, vivid and stimulating” area that precisely displays the model of the model’s varied platforms.

These embrace a month-to-month journal, web site, app, on-line store, TV applications and dwell occasions aimed toward girls aged 18 to 48.

The studio has positioned a stripy bar counter constructed from different-coloured slabs of onyx on the centre of the workplace.

The semi-precious stone has additionally been used to make show plinths for the store, spherical tabletops within the cafe and the boardroom desk.

“The bar was a problem to create and set up,” stated David Mahyari, CEO of SolidNature, the corporate that equipped the stone. “It concerned a number of hand craftsmanship because the piece incorporates completely different layers, colors and sizes of onyx.”

“We used a number of onyx within the bar as a result of it has a clear and tender really feel,” he added. “It additionally comes within the colors and tones which go well with the &C model.”

The studio has additionally erected a red-framed metal partition to divide the workplace – which was initially a singular room – into separate employees and public areas.

Made up of different-sized panels of yellow-tinted and reeded glass, the partition offers a level of privateness whereas additionally permitting gentle to filter by way of.

Area Encounters makes use of tender partitions to divide spacious Flowpolis workplace in Amsterdam

“I wished to separate the shop from the workplace however preserve the transparency of the area and that is how we got here up with the metal and glass partition,” the studio’s eponymous founder, Anne Claus, defined.

Within the store, the studio has made the many of the constructing’s peak by mounting a daring array of posters all the best way as much as the sting of the ceiling.

A nook of the store has additionally been furnished with an olive-green seating banquette, bentwood cane cafe chairs and fringed, semi-circular wall mirrors.

Different design-focused workspaces in Amsterdam embrace the workplace of real-estate agent Flowpolis, which Area Encounters overhauled to function a bright-blue walkway, curtained partitions and a dangling punchbag that employees can use to alleviate stress.