Studio Alt Shift

Looking forward to meeting, eating and bumping into each other again soon!

The freelancer culture of working in cafes seems a life time ago. Before working from home became a necessity, cafes offered the chance to get away from your living space, the flexibility to work from multiple locations across the city, and have coffee meetings that rolled seamlessly into cocktails.

A few years ago we designed Stories on Broadway for the Mothership Group ( Patterns Brighton, The Book Club, Queen of Hoxton that we also designed for them), they approached us with exciting plans for a space that would accommodate a busy brunch service by day, a casual cocktail bar in the evening and a workspace for the local freelance community around that.

Design Direction, Furniture and Lighting for Stories, Broadway Market.

Folded sheet metal brackets paired with solid Oak I-beams are the basis for the furniture range and the lights are folded sheets of paper floating in the space on pulleys to change from low level reading light to larger diffuser for a more social atmosphere. The walls and floor became a swatch library of colour tones and finishes, the rain forest wall in Cactus Corner a place to imagine our dream collage of a reading room in the Barbican Conservatory.

The furniture is available to order in a range of colours and finishes, the lights are also available with or without adjustable pulleys.

It’s very exciting that our home has been featured in this month - we have been missing our space during this lockdown where we found ourselves unexpectedly on an extended stay on the beautiful Island of Madeira. Seeing the pictures has definitely made us appreciate it anew. It’s layout is unconventional and surprising but suits us and the way we live down to a tee. Turning improbable briefs into reality is something that we pride ourselves on - and you don’t get a more demanding client than yourself!! @ London, United Kingdom