Expormim Office

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.

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 organization 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.

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.

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.