One office, three disciplines: how Claesson Koivisto Rune works

Claesson Koivisto Rune is registered as an architectural partnership, and it keeps buildings, interiors and objects inside one office instead of splitting them across three departments. The evidence is in the client list: the studio designed the Offecct factory and headquarters in 2005 for a manufacturer it also designs furniture for, and converted a Tokyo bank building into the K5 hotel in 2020. Founded in Stockholm in 1995 and named after its three architects, the office treats a building and a chair as the same problem at two scales – an approach visible in the furniture, which behaves like small architecture rather than like styling.

For Frezza the studio drew Radar, where every mechanism is hidden inside the shell so the sculpted volume stays unbroken. Indian offices reach the family through La Mercanti, one cabin at a time or a whole floor at once.