Petermayer Office
Creative Marketing Agency
Client: PETERMAYER Advertising
Role: Interior Design, Furnishing Specification, Procurement, Purchasing, Installation
Scope: Design of new office for branding and advertising agency.
Status: Complete 2024
Size: 4,250 sq. ft.
Budget: $160,000
Collaborators: Edifice Builders, AOS, Indigo Madness
Joyful post-pandemic office to reconnect and refocus
Since moving to the Lower Garden District, this reimagined New Orleans-based creative agency responds to the evolving nature of work in a post-pandemic world with an inventive workplace design, integrating its spirited brand through curated furniture and vibrant color accents.
With remote staff spread across the country, the agency envisioned its office as a vibrant hub—a place to gather, exchange ideas, and reinforce team culture. Abandoning traditional workplace models, the design embraces a hospitality-inspired environment that prioritizes flexibility, creativity, and connection.
Guided by the creative agency’s joyful brand identity, the interiors are expressive and unexpected. Bold and colorful accents emerge from a field of neutrals, delineating zones that energize the space while reflecting the agency’s dynamic culture. Spatial programming is distinguished by four zones: focus, collaborate, connect, and restore, where height-adjustable, mobile, and collapsible furniture allows for constant reconfiguration to support evolving needs. Restore areas feature acoustic privacy panels and biophilic elements, offering focus moments away from the buzz of creative exchange. The office space also includes four shared enclosed private offices and multiple flexible meeting rooms designed for seamless collaboration from brainstorming to final presentation. By integrating hospitality design with furniture adaptability, the space becomes a physical manifestation of the agency’s knack for blending innovation with culture and creative thinking.
Equal weight on function and creativity was a key priority set by the client, largely informed by how best to welcome employees back from remote work while enhancing overall workplace culture and collaboration post-pandemic. Beyond the need for a functional and open floor layout, a sense of autonomy, movement, and creative expression were identified as integral elements to be woven into the design to support employee health and well-being while minimizing overstimulation. To achieve this, small yet thoughtful details that give meaning and identity to the space—such as the entryway’s “Joy” mural by a local artist, a colorful bike parts installation to reflect their brand, along with the addition of acoustic panels and biophilic elements—were introduced.
In response to post-pandemic setbacks—and with a focus on cultivating a collaborative, creative, and engaging atmosphere of wonder, play, creative thinking and connection, a hospitality-inspired office environment set the foundation to overcome design challenges while fulfilling client aspirations. As part of this, key design challenges were addressed through strategic spatial programming determined by four distinctly organized zones to balance solitude with social namely, focus, collaborate, connect, and restore. The design of this holistically generous and balanced environment that supports a smooth transition back into the workplace.
To allow for seamless remote collaboration with team members in other cities, mobile media carts were used throughout the collaboration zone. This allows team members to "wheel" their remote colleagues around brainstorming sessions so they can see real time collaboration with the local team.
Multiple floor power outlets and power pole extensions were used so the furniture could be untethered from dedicated power. These flexible power stations allow for team members to charge technology in any configuration without being dedicated to a specific table or location.
