L'Oréal Japan

During the coronavirus pandemic, L'Oréal Japan recognized the importance of putting people and their needs at the center of workspace design. To encourage employees to return from their home offices, the company decided to fundamentally redesign its office floors. The goal was to transform a functional office into one that would inspire.

The award-winning Tokyo-based interior design firm The Design Studio, which has been designing modern office landscapes for domestic and foreign companies for more than 50 years, was commissioned to carry out the redesign. The team, led by Design Team Leader and Senior Project Designer Ryota Tomimoto, designed a dynamic and maximally open space concept for L'Oréal Japan that promotes social interaction through a variety of meeting opportunities.

Wilkhahn seating plays a key role here, inviting informal interaction in break areas, project and conference rooms and supporting analog and hybrid forms of collaboration. The Occo chair range, designed by the Stuttgart-based design duo Jehs + Laub, and the Sola conference chair, in a variety of versions, blend harmoniously into the overall aesthetic concept, which takes “Japanese beauty” as its guiding principle.

The newly designed L'Oréal Japan headquarters has won the Creative Office Award, the Red Dot Design Award and the iF Design Award, and is considered an outstanding example of future-oriented office architecture in the industry.