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(NY/LA) Interior Architecture + Design Studio. Wellness spaces, Hospitality, Residential, Workplace, & Custom Furnishings.

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Celebrating the close out of the installation and exhibition we wove into the fabric that is our studio garden.
Verdant Phenomena.
Thank you to all who came and added to the weave. We appreciated all of you. Artists, visitors, collaborators, colleagues friends and more.
We look forward to the next iteration.

Photos by @danicataylor_photo from opening day

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A resonant thank you to all who participated in and supported Verdant Phenomena thus far.

Our preview evening and dinner for 50 guests in mid August was a night to remember.

Verdant Phenomena resulted in over 60 original hand-crafted pieces of furniture, objects, sculpture, and artworks. Each of the artists and designers, all located either in the Bay Area or Los Angeles, responded to a sense of place via form, materiality, and concept within the boundaries and mediums of their crafts.

The setting is within our studio garden––laden with coneflowers, sunflowers, hellebores, pea tendrils, grasses, herbs, cedars, as well as fruit trees such as peaches, cherries, and plums.

An additional seven independent design brands such as Gantri, Heller, Emeco, RAD Furniture, Sun-set Furniture, and ORCA provide lighting, seating, and side tables.

The cohort of participating artists and designers include past, aspiring, and present sources and collaborators from our past and upcoming interior design projects. Our projects span from hospitality, residential, commercial and more.

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Photos by @danicataylor_photo

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The Bureau is pleased to present our outdoor group show - Verdant Phenomena - Featuring 30 California artists and designers set within a garden in
Sonoma, CA
Open by appointment through Sept 19

And Saturdays 5-7 pm 9/5, 9/12 and 9/19

Dm or email hello@thebureau.design to get on the calendar and receive the address

More information at the link in bio

Photos by @casscleave and @danicataylor_photo

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On behalf of The Bureau, we are pleased to invite you to the opening night of “Verdant Phenomena,” a group exhibition set within the intimate, lushly verdant, and garden of Sarah Giesenhagen, interior designer and founder of The Bureau. Please RSVP via link in bio and for more information.

Giesenhagen invited over 13 artists and designers from the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area to produce new works in response to a unique setting for gathering and displaying. The garden––laden with coneflowers, sunflowers, hellebores, pea tendrils, grasses, herbs, redwoods, as well as fruit trees such as peaches, cherries, and plums.

Verdant Phenomena is a natural expression of Geisenhagen’s creative practice—a means of crafting an experience, a moment for public/intimate gathering, and an exploration of the artistic outcomes that arises from mixing prompts of natural landscape, materials, and collective expression.

On display at opening night will be 70+ handmade and produced art and design pieces from 13 Northern California-based independent artists and designers, as well as 7 independent design brands.

Featuring works by:
Rafi Ajl @the_rafi_ajl
Amanda Swain of Chimera Design @chimera_design_
Gigi Allen @_gigiallen
Jess Feury @jessfeury
Taylor Donsker @taylordonsker
Hanneke Lourens @hanneke.lourens
Joe Ferriso @joeferriso
Kate Greenberg @kate.hands.co
Stephen Kenn @stephenkenn
Ron Mann
HB-AS @hbas_co
Creativeware @creativeware
Amelia Tru Czaczyk @amelia.czaczyk
Sarah Giesenhagen and Gigi Allen for Nomadory Rugs @nomadory

Sun-Set @sun_set.us
ORCA @orcaliving
Heller @hellerfurniture
RAD @radfurniture
Gantri @gantri

@_the.bureau_
@sgiesenhagen

Opening August 16th from 3–7pm.
On view by appointment Wednesday–Saturday from
August 19th through September 5th. For appointments email hello@thebureau.design

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Few things have been more certain to me than the importance of deep creative collaboration and mutual respect for one another’s process. It has taken years of dedication and an unwillingness to deviate from a life filled with artistic wonder.

My parents are designers and artists, and we bounced back and forth between the US and Germany in a chaotic, enthralling way before I landed at Parsons in Paris and then RISD to study Interior Architecture. While there I wanted to see more of what everyone was working on. I started throwing art “Harvests” in my apartment, inviting everyone to show their work. The school got wind of it and asked if I wanted to run our student gallery, Exposé. Two beautiful years of tending to a space, throwing openings, and seeing everyone’s work followed.

I was building the beginnings of my career in Interiors at the same time, and that is where I met Amanda. We became allies and confidants, aligned in the way we challenged and nurtured each other’s creativity. We made a pact to start a firm one day, and a decade later, almost to the day we graduated, we did.

In the two years since launching Chimera, we have been building quietly. Projects take time, the same way defining your creative voice does, and we have always been fine working on our own clock. Our work together is rooted in play and we fill our spaces with our peers’ pieces. While nurturing our friendship and our firm, we branched out and joined other endeavors that flex the creative processes we love.

In a full-circle moment, and a continuation of work I began 15 years ago, I joined Show: Room last December. I love seeing so many passionate and unique perspectives and hearing the depth of thought behind the work. Curating and communicating it to the public feels like a precious gift. This thread continues as an integral way of relating to and interpreting the world around me.

Earlier this month I wanted to bridge the gap between artist and work, and work and viewer. Drawn Here is the result, an audio exploration where artists speak directly to their work and process.

Here I am with Amanda. Together we are Chimera, in TIWA Select’s space, which I love so much, at Show: Room.

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Pink at night

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the space and the people that made it 🌹 amazing assist by @claupalau

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‘The Loft’ at Haram Haram is where the magic happens. When designing this space with @chimera_design_ we wanted to approach this area a little differently than the typical tattoo studio aesthetic and instead drench the room in warm desert tones and earthy materials. Getting tattooed is such an intimate experience in and of itself, and we wanted the environment to soften the intensity of that - less clinical, more ritualistic.

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Just keeps getting better

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Тату-студия Haram Haram в Майами спроектирована американским бюро Chimera Design (@chimera_design_) как пространство, переосмысливающее саму практику татуировки. Заказчицей проекта выступила художница Наташа Эль-Бадеви — ей хотелось получить интерьер, в котором процесс татуирования воспринимается «как церемония, заслуживающая уважения». Название отсылает к арабскому слову, одновременно означающему «запретное» и «священное» — эта двойственность легла в основу интерьерной концепции.

➕ Подробнее о тату-пространстве с атмосферой приватности — по ссылке в stories ➕

Фото: Jeanne Canto (@jeannnes)

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2024 - C H I M E R A

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