Luxury Workplace Design – The Rubinstein Group Office by Esoteriko

Fusing luxury retail experiential qualities with a sophisticated commercial approach, The Rubinstein Group office is both textural and welcoming. Esoteriko utilises a considered restraint together with textural depth to create moments of subtlety and warm immersion.

In its siting, The Rubinstein Group office does its finest to fit seamlessly amongst its neighbouring luxury retail stores in Woollahra, respecting context while remaining as an expression of self. As the home of a law firm, the focus is on both expressing the ethos of the company and manifesting a clear commitment to detail. Through a layered approach, muted and subtle cues interplay and a natural hierarchy is created through saturated palette nods and more tonal elements, creating a balance. Esoteriko carefully combines a softness with intentional heightening of the senses to create a series of spaces that teeter between residential and immersive luxury retail.

The spaces deviate from the traditional and expected commercial vernacular and instead focus on layering richness through texture.

Built by Forma Projects, The Rubinstein Group office is founded on a controlled restraint, and through the minimising of alternate palette and materiality elements, the space emerges as both considered and intentional. A combination of light colours is differentiated through shifts in tone and an embedded subtlety. Polished Venetian plaster sits alongside nuanced aged brass elements, while terrazzo and honed reconstituted stone are both relaxed through the integration of textural washed linen. The company’s key blue and grey branding is reinterpreted throughout the spaces in various forms, while remaining as a welcoming and amenable place to conduct business and build relationships. While a workplace, all effort has been made to make it feel anything but.

The spaces deviate from the traditional and expected commercial vernacular, and instead focus on layering richness through texture. Within the site’s 140sqm, the workplace model is redefined through a dissemination of how the work itself is conducted, inspired by the staff and rolled out based on function. Flexibility was key and ensuring each space could serve multiple purposes drove much of the design, as did an open visual connectedness and the continuation of sight lines. Through an abstracted approach, a sense of journey is created, where curves gently hint at movement and act as a nod to activity without the need for defined borders. Although formal, the planning approach is inspired by a more casual sensibility.

Polished Venetian plaster sits alongside nuanced aged brass elements, while terrazzo and honed reconstituted stone are both relaxed through the integration of textural washed linen.

Acting as an extension of the people who work within the space and as the embodiment of the work conducted, Esoteriko’s The Rubinstein Group office conjures a sense of visual and sensory immersion that reflects a clear departure from the expected.