Brexit design summit: UK design businesses are considering opening offices in the EU to maintain close ties with overseas clients in the event of Brexit.
The finding came from a Brexit design summit of leading figures from the architecture and design sector convened by Dezeen last week.
"We're thinking of opening an office in Paris," said Amanda Levete, head of AL_A, which recently started work on a project to remodel the Galeries Lafayette department store in the French capital.
Levete, who employs 50 people in London, said the project had taken on greater significance since the Brexit vote. "Hopefully this project could be an expression of Franco-British friendship," she said.
Amanda Levete said she is thinking of opening an office in Paris, where her firm AL_A is working on a project to remodel the Galeries Lafayette department store Judy Dobias, president of London-based design PR company Camron, said that the Brexit vote had forced her company to respond by becoming more international in its outlook.
"I am staying in London but I'm going to open in Barcelona, I'm going to open in Berlin," said Dobias, who already has offices in New York and Los Angeles, and has clients across Europe.
"I think we're going to become more European," she said.

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