Interior Design

Posted: 07/01/2011

Jehs + Laub’s pedestal chairs, Barbara Barry’s barrel chairs, and Patrick Jouin’s sofa meet in the lounge. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Jehs + Laub’s pedestal chairs, Barbara Barry’s barrel chairs, and Patrick Jouin’s sofa meet in the lounge. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

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A Zen garden lines a corridor at a Chicago trading firm by Perkins + Will. The inset steel frames, which currently hold Burmese and Thai teak carvings, will eventually display sculpture from Japan. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

To make the reception area’s bonsai sculpture, Carolyn Ottmers covered an actual tree in clay and paint. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Glass-reinforced gypsum enclosures wrap the structural columns in the bull pen. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Aluminum-framed tempered glass separates the office from the building’s escalator landing. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Leather-covered walnut chairs face the koi pond in reception. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Conference rooms fronted by lacquered raw steel and paldao-veneered MDF. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Japanese spirit stones in the corridor’s Zen garden. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Maple veneering the bull pen’s canopy. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

A porcelain-tiled backsplash and a cast-stone sink trough in a restroom. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Sand in the Zen garden. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Built-in task lighting for the IT department. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Traders in the bull pen sit in chairs by Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Walls flowing into the bull pen were troweled with a mixture of plaster and cement. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

The bull pen accommodates 256 workstations. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

In the CEO’s office, behind electronically shaded smart glass, a Fabien Baron sofa faces Jiun Ho chairs. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

In the boardroom, a modular pendant fixture by Pete Sans illuminates the marble top of the custom table. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

A defunct bridge appears in one of the bull pen’s windows. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

The fitness center’s ceiling fixtures were customized with painted-steel shades. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

Jehs + Laub’s pedestal chairs, Barbara Barry’s barrel chairs, and Patrick Jouin’s sofa meet in the lounge. Photography by Michelle Litvin.

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