Orange-tinted acrylic tubes and tree bark are among the objects that Sam Jacob Studio has piled up on the shelves inside this London office.
The office is situated in Old Street and belongs to Takram ? a design studio that, until now, has been based solely in Tokyo.
For the interiors of its London workspace, Takram tasked Sam Jacob Studio with developing a "raw yet refined" aesthetic that reflects the company's creative process and diverse use of mediums.

"It's always great to work with clients who themselves are designers," said the studio's founder, Sam Jacob.
"We wanted to articulate something of the process of design through the project, a place where the practicalities of project-making become inspiring and unexpected."
The rear wall of the main workroom has thus been made to feature a series of white shelves. Each shelf appears to be propped up by different material offcuts or objects, like birch-tree bark, orange acrylic tubes, chrome pipes and concrete-cast geometric shapes.

"These are brought together to create a language of contrasting materials with different values, textures, finishes and references," explained the studio.
"Rather than resolving into a single aesthetic, the palette feels more like an architect's material library, where unexpected juxtapositions occur through cataloguing," it continued.
"It's a system that learns from the most basic way of placing one material on top of another, where the ...