Natural wallcovering, coworking flagship

The operator's design language for this Berlin flagship rejected the exposed concrete and industrial metal palette common to co-working spaces. The brief called for material warmth and acoustic softening without the domestic associations of upholstered walls or acoustic panels. GC-218 in pale wheat was the specification that satisfied both criteria: it reads as a professional background in meeting rooms and a warm social ground in the lounge.

540 m² in a single specification across multiple room types required careful production planning. Meeting rooms with whiteboards required the grasscloth to terminate cleanly at the board edges without trim strips — an installation detail that the Berlin crew resolved by routing the fiber edge into a shallow channel in the board frame. The result reads as intentional rather than a workaround.

The acoustic improvement across the meeting rooms was measured by the fit-out contractor at completion. Average reverb time dropped from 0.9 seconds on the bare plaster to 0.55 seconds with the grasscloth installed — not a professional acoustic treatment, but a significant improvement for videoconferencing clarity. The operator has since specified grasscloth as a standard element in their European rollout, citing both the acoustic benefit and the member response to the material texture.

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