The space is built around the furniture rather than in spite of it

Expormim makes furniture from rattan. The brief for their Valencia offices was not to display the catalogue, but to translate the logic behind it — material honesty, craft precision, restraint — into the conditions of a workplace. The space had to embody the same values as the objects it contains without becoming a showroom in the conventional sense.

Expormim Office, Valencia — empty dark oak shelving under linear pendants against warm plaster

Expormim Office, Valencia — shelving detail with a ceramic tile work and terracotta spheres, a green bouclé chair alongside

Expormim Office, Valencia — warm-lit shelving with a ceramic tile work and terracotta spheres above a green bouclé chair

Office, showroom, studio — without separation.

The space operates as three things at once: office, showroom, and studio. These modes are not separated by partition or threshold. Movement between them is absorbed into the organisation of the plan — furniture placement, surface continuity, and the presence of the terrace as an extension of both the work and the product.

The 180 square metres of interior open onto 60 of covered outdoor space, where the brand’s exterior collection can be experienced in full Mediterranean light. The terrace is not a supplement to the office — it is part of it.

Expormim Office, Valencia — meeting room with a long pale table and dark green chairs, sheer curtains onto a planted courtyard

Expormim Office, Valencia — boardroom with a dark table and green chairs, oak joinery and shelving beneath linear pendants

Expormim Office, Valencia — joinery detail, pale oak cupboards with black handles between dark shelving

Expormim Office, Valencia — shelving with a ceramic tile work, a terracotta sphere and books, a green chair by the dark table

Expormim Office, Valencia — a reading corner with dark floating shelves, a black cane armchair and a stone sphere

Expormim Office, Valencia — a niche with floating shelves, a black cane armchair and a stone sphere by the curtained window

Expormim Office, Valencia — an office seen through a glass partition, dark oak joinery and a meeting table beyond

Material behaviour under natural light.

The material palette is consistent with Expormim’s own language: rattan, travertine, lime plaster, natural linen. These are not decorative choices — they are the same choices the brand makes in its furniture, applied here at the scale of a room. Surfaces are chosen for how they behave under the light that enters through the terrace windows at different hours of the day, not for how they read in controlled conditions.

The wood grain is legible in afternoon light. The travertine changes depth from morning to evening. The lime plaster holds shadow in its texture. The room performs differently across the day because the materials it is made of respond differently to the same light.

Expormim Office, Valencia — shelving detail, cream books on dark oak shelves against plaster

Expormim Office, Valencia — the kitchenette, a white sink niche with a bronze tap under a dark oak shelf, pomegranates on a board

Expormim Office, Valencia — material detail, dark oak meeting the travertine floor in a shaft of light

Expormim Office, Valencia — a sheer curtain beside a dark oak door on the travertine floor

Expormim Office, Valencia — a passage lined with dark oak joinery and floating shelves over a travertine floor

Expormim Office, Valencia — a corridor of dark oak cabinetry and shelving leading toward the light

The product within the space.

A selection of emblematic rattan pieces anchors each zone — designs by Miquel Milá, Oscar Tusquets and Norm Architects. The workplace is built around them rather than in spite of them. The furniture is not staged; it is in use. Meetings happen at the same tables that appear in the catalogue. The daily life of the office is inseparable from the product it represents.

Lighting by Santa & Cole. Artwork by Yoyo Balagué.

Expormim Office, Valencia — boardroom with dark oak shelving, a long table and bentwood chairs beneath a large saucer pendant

Expormim Office, Valencia — a black cane-and-leather armchair against a dark oak panelled wall

Expormim Office, Valencia — dark floating shelves and a black bentwood armchair on the travertine floor

Expormim Office, Valencia — a corner with dark oak shelving, a bentwood chair and a large saucer pendant

Expormim Office, Valencia — the large saucer pendants over the dark table, a sheer curtain alongside

Expormim Office

The space is built around the furniture rather than in spite of it

Office, showroom, studio — without separation.

Material behaviour under natural light.

The product within the space.