Constance Guisset, the designer Van Cleef & Arpels asked to draw its offices

Since 2019 the workplaces of Van Cleef & Arpels, in Paris and abroad, have been designed by Constance Guisset. The Paris headquarters project she describes reads like a plan for how people actually spend a day: a courtyard planted as a blooming jungle, a reception point that contracts and then opens under a glass roof, collective workspaces set out for lunch breaks and informal meetings, meeting rooms sized for confidentiality or for openness, and a library carved out of darkness where staff go to recharge. The same maison later commissioned the interiors of L'École, its school of jewelry arts, including the Shanghai campus. Her studio, founded in Paris in 2009 after ESSEC, Sciences Po and a year at the Tokyo Parliament, treats a workplace and a stage set with the same question: how does a body move through it, and does it feel welcome.

For LaCividina that question became Waves, a 2018 modular lounge system whose ottomans and daybed connect by magnets rather than hardware, from a 13.4-inch-high hexagon to a 75.6-inch parallel bench with backrest. La Mercanti specifies the family for U.S. corporate and hospitality floors and takes care of shipping to the American jobsite.