Behrer & Partners Real Estate Office in Stockholm by Vida Arkitektkontor.

Vida Arkitektkontor were invited to design two Office Boutiques for Real Estate Brokers Behrer & Partners – a highly renowned broker firm in Stockholm.

“For us – Real Estate Brokers have some of the least interesting shop windows. When you move through the city, we wanted Behrer & Partners to be an addition to the city rather than a subtraction. This has been our main focus throughout the projects and as a consequence, we replaced the old exterior glazing and doors with massive oak doors, oak framing and original neon tube signs in order to make them more beautiful, inviting and expressional,” share the designers.

Vida moved on to work with ways to divide the compact Offices into different spatial entities, tailoring them for the different functions that were on the clients wish list. They wanted the divisions to be as informal and elegant as possible, therefore creating different vertical levels within the space. Vida recreated the street inside the shop by putting down concrete flooring (harshly mimicking the concrete paving on the sidewalks), later inserting a massive elevated timber podiums. City life continues inside the shop around the podiums, while on the podiums the brokers have their individual workspaces where they can work and feel at home. A combined shelving system (for real estate- home exposure, open storage and espresso bar) is the core information bearer that allows the rest of the Boutique to almost remain un-furnished.

“Behrer & Partners puts a lot of effort into their relationships – be it with clients, coworkers and friends – therefore a tree was planted in each Office Boutique, as a symbol.”

[Images courtesy of Vida Arkitektkontor. Photography by Robin Hayes.]