The "warm sense of the future" depicted in sci-fi movie Her informed the soft grey workspaces that designer Xiaoxi Xiong has created in the Beijing office of furniture brand Fnji.
The 1000-square-metre Fnji office is located northeast of central Beijing in the city's Shunyi district.
Chinese designer Xiaoxi Xiong was tasked with developing a striking aesthetic for the new office.

"As the urban planning policy is tightened in Beijing, the resource of distinctive office space is rare now," explained Xiaoxi Xiong, who leads Tra & Xi Studio alongside designer Lin Yitong. "After long term research, we chose this space in the end."
"Its attractive spatial advantages are the top-floor views, daylight, and the two floors which could be constructed freely."
Xiong wanted to imbue the office with the same "blurry and warm sense of the future" they saw in the 2013 sci-fi romance film Her, which chronicles how a shy writer gradually falls in love with an artificial intelligence system.

Almost every surface in the office ? including the floors ? has been washed with pale-grey gypsum plaster, selected for its ultra-matte surface finish.

The plaster has also been made to cover the balustrade and treads of the curving staircase that leads up to the office's upper level.
Towards the back of the lower level are a couple of textural feature walls, which Xiong created by pouring semi-solidified gypsum over jumbled piles of broken bricks...