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"A Table Through the Forest," Award-winning Office Design

By Rain Noe - February 25, 2011

in Object Culture

I so want to work here.

Designed several years ago but just making the blog rounds now is this beautiful office space in Paris, by Christian Pottgiesser ArchitecturesPossibles.

Dubbed "A table through the forest," Pottgiesser & co. turned a 19th-century factory into a multi-leveled wooded wonderland where trees grow through the desks, curves reign supreme over straight edges, and workstations are equipped with what look to be Plexiglas sneeze guards to prevent you from spraying germs all over your co-workers. (Please do not send me corrective e-mails, yes, I know they're "telephone bubbles.")

Pottgiesser's design won the ContractWorld Award First Prize in the Office category in January of 2008.

To see tons of photos of the space, click here.

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John Waite

13 years ago

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Can only repeat what others have said, what an amazingly cool place to work! One thing that I would be interested in hearing about would be how they maintain the temperature in there, especially in the winter months. It almost looks like a greenhouse and could feel some extreme effects of weather.
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Robert

13 years ago

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Unbelievably cool - thanks for the photos! I'd never get any work done in such an office though because I'd be too busy looking around in awe.
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clippingimages

13 years ago

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...so...so...so much cool !!! I wish i could work in a office like it...
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elena

13 years ago

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very nice office, like in my garten nice pthotos too, look good this workstations
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tudza

13 years ago

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The plastic bubbles are to keep the squirrels from dropping nuts on your head.
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Lucas Vital Matos Dias Gabriel

13 years ago

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are the trees real? they don't look like it...besides...wouldn't that create several cleaning and mantaing issues? what about the trees CO2 breathing overnight? does it have ventilation? sure seems cool... but I don't know how much it would be effective...I think an office with plenty of windows sorrounded by a HUGE garden with REAL trees would be much much greater...and one other thing, the idea of space and liberation falls to the ground and faced with those so individualistic bubbles. seems to me this project is pretensious, trendy, and not very well designed.
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