INC’s studio is an intensely personal portrait of our collective aspirations and culture. The goal was to create an environment that embodies the values of our company: human, dynamic, ever-evolving and complex layering were to be its hallmarks. We sought to express the multi-cultural, multi-generational and passionately collaborative workplace that is INC. 

The space was peeled back to its essential architectural shell. The exquisite 1930s structure including the columns, walls and ceiling were deeply sandblasted to bring forward the natural and honest beauty of the existing raw concrete. The concrete floor was polished to a high gloss finish throughout.

A back-to-the-future hypostyle of nine mushroom columns dominate the twelve square column bays that constitute the heart of the studio. The individual desks occupy the center with collaborative workspaces arranged along the western windows. Custom LED mirrored light beams provide for task and ambient lighting and function as a heliostat reflecting natural light deep into the studio.

Simple secondary architectural elements were developed to provide for the more private functional requirements of the studio and to define spatial subdivisions which break down the space but that maintain the open studio format so critical to our way of working together.

This secondary architecture is rendered in polychrome painted plaster and materials like polished chrome, industrial felt, blackened and blond scrubbed oak, white Danby marble, polished black lacquer and cement plaster that balance a refined rawness and an expressive luxuriousness.

The furnishings are decidedly residential in character and include antiques, custom upholstery, custom casegoods, custom raw silk rugs, polychrome raw leather, polished stainless steel, solid ash and polychrome marbles.

Our space is filled with greenery, collected materials, prototypes, objects and details drawn from our projects, our wanderings and our passions.