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Lab Offices

  • Client: Ivy Farm Technologies
  • Location: ARC Oxford
  • Spaces: Labs + Hybrid offices
  • Budget: £250K+
  • Services: Consultancy, CAD, Relocation, Furniture, Bespoke
  • Highlights: Years of collaboration to deliver client's dream workspace

Ivy Farm x JBL

Founder Russ got in touch early in Ivy's journey, simply needing a desk after getting the keys to Ivy's first empty office. We lent Russ his first desk to get him operational quickly. We soon helped plan, manage and install evolutionary workspace changes during the team's expansion through multiple moves, including temporary furniture hire to reduce CAPEX ahead of this ultimate relocation into Ivy Farm's state of the art destination workspace.

We were quickly able to build trust built between client, interior designer and our team to ensure the most technically difficult bespoke build challenges could be overcome. A collective dedication to 'not taking no for an answer' and to delivering Ivy Farm's vision of their destination workspace.

The collaboration led to some of our most technically difficult design and bespoke build elements to date. Taking a design brief and assembling a team of the right specialists to deliver robust solutions to meet brief. Highlights include installating one of the longest floor to ceiling 'seamless' cork walls in the UK, design and build of unsuspended abstract office trees, all using recycled or natural materials and pioneering multi level techniques to design and build unique interior elements that execute Ivy's vision.

The real collaboration however was done in the years before supporting Ivy Farm's team in all aspects of furnture, CAD planning, hire, reloaction, small works, repairs and service calls. Never any call out charges, no request too small or change of plan ever an issue. We always understood Ivy's focus on their work and the need for unwaivering support to keep them operational cost effectively as they evolved.

5 years on from Russ's first call, after we moved Ivy Farm's team into their dream destination workspace we closed the loop... and took Russ's loan desk back.

Design brief

Working with Award winning designer Elspeth Lynn, founder of creative agency Unbound, to deliver Ivy Farm's dream workspace. To execute each element of our design brief we used our in-house CAD design and install teams, and hand picked some of the UK's best specialist makers and material specialists to form our team and innovate build techniques using recycled or natural materials to deliver the brief, to budget.

Use of Space

Key requirements

  • Stadium seating
  • Relax and games areas
  • Extensive use of cork and whiteboard paint wall treatments
  • Games hire
  • Bespoke teapoint

What Ivy Farm had to say...

a huge huge thank you for all your efforts in helping us create our dream offices, from moving and installing furniture to putting up animal heads and so much more. We really appreciate all the hard work and time you’ve spent helping us across weekends and evenings, and your multiple trips to Bristol. We really could not have done this without you.