Common Ground
A creative workspace built for connection.
Category
Commercial
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Year
2024
Area
450 m²
Services
Workplace Strategy, Interior Design, Furniture
Photography
Nils Berg
A workplace that feels
like a shared home.
Common Ground is the Stockholm home of a design collective of thirty people working across architecture, graphics, and product.
The studio needed to support intense collaboration while offering calm corners for concentration, reading, and conversation.
We organised the plan around a generous central kitchen, with quieter zones radiating outwards towards the windows.
A long communal table anchors the studio, framed by steel-glazed partitions.
Designed
for movement.
Flexible furniture and open circulation allow the space to shift between workshop, gallery, and gathering place.
Raw concrete, ash timber, and wool textiles keep the atmosphere honest and hard-wearing, while soft lighting adds warmth after dark.
Honest
and hard-wearing.
Durable, natural surfaces were chosen to age with the people who use them every day, gaining character rather than losing it.
Material balance
36%
Concrete
30%
Ash
22%
Wool
12%
Steel
“The new studio changed how we work together. People arrive earlier, stay longer, and talk more.”
— Johan Ek, Founding Partner
