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Barbarians at the Great: An Undulating 4,400-Square-Foot Superdesk

By Rain Noe - February 14, 2014

in Furniture Design

For their new offices on West 20th Street, creative agency The Barbarian Group wanted an office design that would live up to their catchphrase ("It's gonna be awesome.") Thus they commissioned L.A.-based architect Clive Wilkinson to design them an enormous desk—some 4,400 square feet—that the bulk of the staff would all use at once.

The crazy, undulating form has a CNC-milled plywood frame, which was flatpack-shipped from its fabrication center in L.A. to the office in New York; a resin surface was then poured on-site. But enough talk, take a look at this thing:

Everyone's gotta love it... except the cleaning crew.

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Elie

10 years ago

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You've gotta be kidding, the design's biggest draw is low cost - no partitions of any sort - but to work in huge hallways like that brings to mind corporate typing warehouses of the 1930s with tightly packed employees side-by-side under the clock. All that hot air about department work flows is nonsense. This is regressive design at best, great for robots and parading clients through, not for working humans.
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memoney

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I got to ad a few on sleepy's comment. Sorry but that is horrible. Designwise, or visiually it may be interesting or charming, but I really wonder what people think, working on that stupid desk.

Working at an office doesn't mean employers can f**k with your privacy or etc. I hate someone walking behind when working. That is amazingly distracting. Best way to design an office is to turn all employees backs to wall or something. Whatever they do is not your business if working people can finish on time whatever you wanted. If you don't trust your employees, than you got a big problem or you're a very annoying control freak..

sorry but that desk sucks.
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sleepy

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Even with all the studies that prove that open plan offices are terrible for productivity people still build things like this.
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emanster provolone

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AMAAAZING!! I want this.
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