OnOffice magazine

03/07/2025

Material Matters♻️

Architect David Rockwell knows first-hand that good things come in small packages. He co-founded the Cork Collective to recycle bottle corks and created installation Casa Cork to showcase one of the world’s most sustainable materials .

Fresh from Milan Design Week, during which the Rockwell Group presented Casa Cork, an installation promoting the benefits of designing with natural cork, award-winning architect David Rockwell is feeling particularly energised. It turns out that the Cork Collective – a not-for-profit initiative that Rockwell co-founded in 2024 with cork producers Corticeira Amorim, investors BlueWell and Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits aiming to promote the recycling and reuse of the 13 million bottle corks discarded each year – has accelerated faster than expected.

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Photography by Emily Andrews / Ed Reeve / Lawrence Sumulong

27/06/2025

At home and at work🏠

A commitment to innovation and sustainability underpins the Snap chair, created by Note Design Studio for Profim. Constructed for office conversation and collaboration, it’s ready for business – with all the comforts of home.

Snap is a new family of chairs for the contract market from Polish furniture brand Profim. Yet they look ready and waiting to jump into a cosy domestic environment. Plump cushioning softens the seat back and base, which rest on a curvilinear frame, all rendered in enticing, gentle hues. The lounge version in particular is all about comfort, with extra-downy quilted padding wrapped around the arms and over the seat. Snap is both refined and unquestionably inviting, while also embracing some of the most circular manufacturing methods around.

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19/06/2025

Muller Van Severen👫

Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen has built a reputation for furniture that balances practicality and playfulness. Its founders explain how their artistic backgrounds help them design without fear, and what they believe makes a piece of furniture truly beautiful.

When Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen decided to collaborate on a furniture collection in 2011, it marked a turning point in their lives. They had met a decade earlier while studying at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent and fallen in love. After university, the pair pursued separate careers as artists but always harboured a desire to work together. When the chance eventually came, it wasn’t an artwork they chose to create, but a furniture collection for Valerie Traan, a gallery in Antwerp, seeking to blur the boundaries of art and design.

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Images by Frederik Vercruysse / HAY / Studio Anne Holtrop / Nacho Alegre

12/06/2025

Worlds within🛋️

When tasked with creating the interior environments for Fora’s flexible workspace, The Jellicoe in King’s Cross, Universal Design Studio led with sensorial approach, appealing to the diverse needs of tenants.

Entering the Jellicoe, the latest building to reach completion in the King’s Cross Estate redevelopment plan, the first space you encounter is the resident café, Geoffrey’s. Like the building itself, its integrated urban garden, and neighbouring Jellicoe Gardens, it is named after the renowned 20th century landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

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Images by Chris Tirrell

04/06/2025

Paper profit📃

GF Smith , the historic British paper company, is known and loved for its premium papers. Earlier this year, it launched a full-scale rebrand with the help of - and received a passionate response from the creative community.

The area around Lockwood Street in northern Hull looks like any other light-industrial district in England - full of grey warehouses and unloved red-brick buildings. That is, until the headquarters of paper company GF Smith hoves into view, its fluorescent turquoise and pink façade almost pulsating in the spring sunlight.

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Images by Tal Silverman / Taran Wilkhu / India Bharadwaj / Eric Aydin-Barberini / TEMPLO

29/05/2025

The imitation game🪑

Some designs are meticulously planned, others evolve through trial and error, but few emerge as organically as .se so-called ‘Protect Your Rights’ chair, or P.Y.R. Born out of a lesson in proper construction technique for his children using leftover materials in his backyard, and later embraced by Sweden’s , P.Y.R. is a piece that represents the unexpected journey of creativity - and offers a quiet but powerful commentary on authenticity in design.

The P.Y.R. chair was never meant to be a product. “I built it from leftover materials because I didn’t know what to do with them,” Ericsson recalls. “Then my kids painted it.” What began as a spontaneous experiment soon caught the attention of Johan Lindau, Blå Station’s CEO, who saw its potential and insisted that it deserved production.

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Images by Marcus Lawett

17/01/2025

Lisl du Toit of Universal Design Studio, the practice behind forward-thinking projects such as the M127 office building in Antwerp, considers how it is possible to create lasting spaces that are sustainable in every sense of the word.

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16/01/2025

We are delighted to see that OnOffice has been selected by as one of the top 35 Architecture Magazines.

A huge thank you to our readers, contributors, and the incredible creative community that inspires us every day.

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Top 35 Architecture Magazines ⋅ 1. Architectural Digest ⋅ 2. Dezeen ⋅ 3. Architect Magazine ⋅ 4. Metropolis Magazine ⋅ 5. Architects' Journal ⋅ 6. The Architectural Review ⋅ 7. Elle Decor

15/01/2025

A profusion of colour, design and fun is behind Maison Perron’s new concept of a live-work space. The newly renovated three-storey building represents a dynamic blend of history, modernity and the Canadian studio’s distinctive approach to colour and design.

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14/01/2025

In collaboration with creative design director Sebastian Wrong, Studio Rhonda has reimagined the Orangebox showroom in Clerkenwell as a vibrant, dynamic HQ. Blending bold colours, innovative collections and inclusive design, this is truly a living, functional workspace.

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08/01/2025

Michael Ico and Dan Harrison’s new retro-inspired café in Sydney delights with vintage pieces and one-off artworks thanks to YSG Studio’s novel approach to interior design.

The building, which once served as the Serendipity ice-cream factory, had been previously subdivided to house a Pilates studio at the back and a street-side small-goods store, where Superfreak now resides.

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06/01/2025

OCCA Design has relocated its headquarters to a newly crafted studio in central Glasgow. Designed by the OCCA team to embody the studio’s values and unique personality, the space highlights a meticulous attention to material choices and design details.

The new immersive environment, flooded with natural light, fosters collaboration among its design, procurement, and branding specialists while also serving as a captivating ‘shop window’ for both new and existing clients.

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