NORDHOFF / NOBÉL

The hall at NORDHOFF, a green marble reception beneath shelving two storeys high

Commercial space · Los Angeles

2025

Location: Los Angeles
Scope: Interior Architectureplanning, materials, joinery and light
Area: 15,684 sq ft
Year: 2025

NORDHOFF is an office that begins as a hall. Green marble is cut into monolithic blocks for the reception, shelving runs two storeys up the walls to hold a collection, and reclaimed timber, walnut and bronze carry on from there into the rooms behind. The plan is divided into zones rather than corridors, each with its own light and its own furniture, and living planting is set through all of them.

Hall / Arrival

The hall is the tallest room in the office and the first one reached. The reception is a single run of green marble set on a line of light, and the collection is shelved from floor to ceiling around it, so arriving means walking into it.

The hall, its shelving and the green marble reception

The hall toward the entrance, the reception at its centre

Green marble reception before a screen of timber rods, the stair beyond

The collection shelved between bronze columns around a doorway

Shelving beside a curved screen of timber

The collection shelved in lit walnut bays

Rooms for Work

The working rooms are walnut, glass and light. Meeting rooms are glazed along one side and panelled along the other, and screens and shelving are framed by lines of light set into the walls.

Boardroom between walnut panelling and smoked glass

The long boardroom table beneath lit shelving

Private office with a desk wrapped in tan leather

Small meeting room opening onto planting

The boardroom table on its fluted stone base

Boardroom table between lit shelving and glass

Lounge / Evening

Between the working rooms are rooms to stay in: lounges under skylights, a bar in stone and walnut, and a darker room for the evening, in deep leather beneath a chandelier of points of light.

Lounge beneath two skylights, the collection shelved behind it

Low sofa and a marble table in a walnut lounge

Lounge seating before shelving and a large painting

Bar in stone and walnut with four leather stools

The evening room, chesterfields beneath a chandelier

Lounge before the collection, orange armchairs around a low table

Lounge beneath a skylight, a low table of black stone

The evening room, chesterfields around a low blue table

Violet bar shelving and a fireplace beyond the chesterfields

Bar shelving above a leather chesterfield

Material Register

Green marble is used as a block rather than a veneer, and left rough where it breaks. Stone is fluted where it is touched, walnut is lit along its edges, and bronze is kept to a line.

Corner of the green marble reception on its line of light

Basin cut from a single block, its broken edge left raw

Veined stone basin and a copper tap above fluting

Fluted stone under the glass of the boardroom table

Washroom with a marble trough and lit shelving

Relief plaster in green beside lit niches

Leather-topped desk against walnut and stone

Cloakroom in weathered timber, a green bench on a rough-cut base

Washroom with a green marble trough and lit shelving