Reception desk for the Tehran Chamber of Commerce. A six-meter faceted object that anchors the lobby by connecting the ceiling artwork above, the tile geometry below, and the Chamber's identity into one continuous form.
Challenge
A new Chamber headquarters — freshly built, fully tiled in dark ceramic, with a commissioned artwork across the lobby ceiling and clear sightlines from the entrance to the elevator core. Everything in the room had been decided. Everything, except what would stand at the front of it. The reception counter had to be the object that gave the space its voice.
Approach
Rather than design a desk that sat in the room, I designed one that tied the room together. The faceted geometry draws directly from the Chamber's brand mark — translated from a 2D graphic into a 3D volume. The angled top planes mirror the artwork on the ceiling above; the material and color palette match the ceramic tile of the floor; the proportions align with the existing circulation flow.
Construction was dark-tinted glass and custom ceramic panels bonded to a steel and MDF substructure — spec'd in the largest pieces that could physically be moved through the building and aligned on-site. Brief to installation in two and a half months, start to finish.
Outcome
A reception desk that acts as a spatial hinge. The Chamber's identity is no longer a plaque on the wall — it's the form visitors approach the moment they step into the lobby. Brand, architecture, and arrival collapse into one object.
"The desk isn't furniture in the room. It's what resolves the room."