Office: Mid-Size / 10-50,000 sq ft

Best of Year 2009 Winner: Rottet Studio

Best of Year -- Interior Design, 12/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

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Best of Year Winner, Office: Mid-Size / 10–50,000 sq ft: Rottet Studio: Artis Capital Management, San Francisco, CA
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The word Artis implies an art gallery. So, at first, does this interior. Dominating the minimally appointed reception zone, a round yellow enamel on canvas by Steven Charles hangs opposite a biomorphic desk of gleaming white fiberglass. But don't let looks fool you—Artis Capital Management handles investments. And its designers, Interior Design Hall of Fame member Lauren Rottet and her deputy Kelie Mayfield, are art devotees. In a break-out area, a canvas by Matthew Ritchie overlooks a table by Rottet and chairs by Fabien Baron. And the lounge's long bar, built from limed oak burl and Siberian marble, has stash space for exercise balls at one end and a monitor for video art at the other. Still, nothing in the 16,200-square-foot workplace impinges on the million-dollar city and bay views surveyed from 27 stories up.

KAI BROMS; SANDY LAM; CHRISTOPHER OLEXY; LAINE GREGORY: PROJECT TEAM.

Best of Year Merit Awards, Office: Mid-Size / 10–50,000 sq ft

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This fashion studio's location, a 1954 building by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, inspired the modernist furniture in the reception area and café as well as a modular screen by Interior Design Hall of Fame member Erwin Hauer.