Throughout the office's four floors are harkings of New York's famed Art Deco design. For example, fluted wood columns between windows gently echo Art Deco. The reception desk and side tables, which are custom designed by Sedley Place, are decorated with black resin ribbed blocks, a detail that also harks back to New York's Art Deco traditions. The showpiece of the space is a magnificent staircase that connects three floors at the center of the agency. According to Mick Nash of Sedley Place, the designers wanted to create a way for colleagues to connect.
People get on the elevator, they pass one another, but there is never an opportunity to connect.
I think it has a destructive effect on the unity of the group. Therefore, we wanted a device that would keep people from going back and forth to the elevator. The resulting staircase, with its ambling bridges, allows the agency's employees to see one another, to see up and down within the space and to gather impromptu-style for quick chats. Nash believes that this staircase has even somewhat changed the culture of the organization. The staircase itself, aside from what it does for the agency, is something to behold.