Does a bold color palette work in a professional office setting?

It does when the palette is intentional and the furnishings are calibrated to it. Bold color used thoughtlessly reads as chaotic. Bold color used as a design language -- where color signals zones and creates spatial logic -- communicates sophistication and deliberate decision-making.

What is the business case for redesigning a workspace employees avoid?

Talent retention and recruitment. The quality of the physical workplace is part of the employer value proposition. A space that communicates investment in the environment signals investment in the people working there. The cost of the redesign is minor compared to the cost of losing a senior employee.

How do you maintain productivity alongside leisure spaces like a pool table?

Zone placement and culture. Leisure zones work best when they're positioned away from focus-work areas. The social signal -- that the company trusts employees to manage their own time -- tends to increase engagement rather than reduce it.

Portfolio · Bellevue, Washington

Work & Play, Arazi Group

Office Design
Workplace Design
Commercial Interior
Bellevue

An office that treats work and play as complementary functions — not competing ones.

Arazi Group came in with a workspace that had stopped working. The layout was dated, the zones undefined, and the environment wasn’t supporting the kind of culture the team had built. The brief: design a reimagined office that could handle focused work, collaborative sessions, and the kind of informal moments that actually build a team.

The result is an office that moves through registers — from open collaborative workspace to lounge seating to a leisure zone anchored by a pool table. Each area has its own logic and its own energy. The whole operates as a single coherent environment.

Bright open office workspace collaborative furniture — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group Bellevue

Modern white office desks meeting screen — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group Bellevue

Office lounge comfortable seating informal meetings — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group Bellevue

Designed for How Teams Actually Work

The open workspace was reorganized around natural light. Collaborative furniture clusters rather than rows of desks — the layout supports side-by-side work and easy conversation without requiring a formal meeting. The meeting screen anchors one end; the other opens to the lounge zone.

Material and color palette: clean whites and warm neutrals as a base, with the logo identity — a tri-circle motif — used as a spatial element at the entry. The brand becomes the environment rather than sitting on top of it.

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Secondary lounge white beams cozy seating — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group office

The secondary lounge — informal enough for a quick debrief, comfortable enough to stay.

The Challenge

The Challenge: Serving Multiple Modes of Work

Modern office design has to answer for three fundamentally different needs: focused individual work, active collaboration, and recovery — the informal time between tasks that’s actually critical to sustained performance. Most offices serve one of the three well. The challenge here was all three, in one coherent environment.

Zoning was the primary tool. Defined areas for each mode, with material transitions and furniture changes that signal a shift in energy without requiring walls. The leisure zone — anchored by the pool table — is positioned so it’s visible but not intrusive. It normalizes the break without making it the center of gravity.

Pool table office leisure area team breaks — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group Bellevue

Office lounge area informal meeting seating — Ariana Designs, Arazi Group Bellevue

“The best offices don’t just support work — they make the work worth doing.”

Open collaborative office workspace Arazi Group — Ariana Designs, Bellevue

Our Design Approach

How We Reimagined the Floor Plate

We started with a full utilization audit — how the team actually moved through the space across a week, not how the floor plan assumed they would. The existing layout had dead zones and overcrowded zones. We redistributed square footage to match actual behavior.

The entry sequence was redesigned as an arrival moment. The illuminated logo at the threshold sets the brand tone before anyone reaches a desk. First impressions in an office apply to employees, not just visitors — the arrival experience matters every day.

Furniture selection prioritized reconfigurability. The collaborative clusters can be shifted for larger gatherings. The lounge furniture is mobile. The leisure zone can be cleared for presentations or all-hands. The office works for the day-to-day and for the occasions that don’t fit the day-to-day.

Client

Arazi Group

Location

Bellevue, Washington

Project Type

Commercial Office Interior Design

Zones

Open workspace, lounge, leisure, meeting areas

Style

Modern, brand-integrated

Scope

Full office reimagining — layout, furniture, brand integration

Common Questions

Frequently Asked

How do you design an office that supports both focused work and collaboration?
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Zone deliberately. Focused work needs acoustic separation — either distance or material transitions — from collaborative areas. The two modes are incompatible in proximity. Design the floor plate so people can move between them, rather than trying to serve both modes in the same space at the same time.

What’s the case for a leisure zone in an office?
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Recovery time is productive time. Teams that have a place to decompress between intensive sessions sustain performance longer than teams that don’t. A pool table isn’t a distraction — it’s an infrastructure investment in sustained output. The research on this is consistent and the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming.

How do you integrate brand identity into an office environment?
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Use brand elements as spatial moves, not applied decoration. A logo on the wall is expected. A logo integrated into the entry threshold — illuminated, architectural — becomes an arrival experience. Color from the brand palette applied as a material decision (not just paint) grounds the identity in the physical environment.

How long does a commercial office design project take?
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Typically eight to fourteen weeks from kick-off to move-in, depending on scope and whether the space is occupied during the project. Design and documentation: three to four weeks. Procurement lead times: four to six weeks depending on furniture spec. Construction and installation: one to three weeks. The variables are procurement timelines and client approval pace.

What furniture works best for a modern collaborative office?
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Reconfigurable pieces that don’t look temporary. Modular seating systems, height-adjustable tables, lightweight mobile chairs. The furniture should support the range of ways the team works — and should be able to shift for the occasions that don’t fit the standard pattern. Proprietary fixed workstation systems create rigidity that modern teams outgrow quickly.