Creative Office in San Francisco
The office was designed by two art devotees, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Lauren Rottet and her deputy Kelie Mayfield—who completed the job as Rottet Studio but were hired under the aegis of DMJM Rottet. “I didn’t know Lauren Rottet from Adam,” Artis founder Stuart Peterson remarks. But the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art board member did have a vision, and he set out to find a designer who could make it a reality. “That’s the beauty of the Internet,” he says. Mouse clicks away, Rottet’s online portfolio presented a global tour of corporate quarters, many of them exhibiting his desired look. “Long-term,” he adds, “my goal is to populate all the walls with art and change it up over time.” (His $20 million Tiburon spread, formerly owned by Andre Agassi, is populated with work by Jean Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, and Joel Shapiro.)
Occupying the 16,200-square-foot penthouse of the Steuart Tower, Welton Becket and Associates’s 1976 building near the Embarcadero Center and the Ferry Building, Artis boasts city and water views, the latter stretching from the Bay Bridge to Alcatraz. Rottet says she made sure nothing would impinge on them: “We carefully laid out the plan so that no walls touch the building perimeter.” Planning reflected the familial, nonhierarchical corporate ethos, too.
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Cool space. Gives the impression of wide open spaces to work but noise would be a problem as there doesn’t seem to be any sound dampeners with the benchstyle workstations. How long could one sit on the balls? We have a few around the office but people keep going back to the normal office chairs – I guess too busy working to worry about having to keep balance. Otherwise, great space, would work there.