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Since Erdosi is a designer,
it’s her job to at least have an
inkling of an answer.

“I’m looking at creating a
hospitality, kind of kitchen
vibe,” she said. “Th ey can eat
there and maybe they have
meetings.” Th e owner’s intention is for
the offi ce to not feel like an
offi ce, she added.

Her designs are open, with
booth seating and plug-ins.

Th ey are for people to sit
down, eat and then work for
a morning or aft ernoon. Th ey
are also for workers to have
meetings with each other, both
formal and informal.

One of Erdosi’s clients is
asking for that kind of layout
with the understanding that
its employees will no longer
come in eight hours a day, fi ve
days a week. But it does want
the offi ce to be there for people
when the company needs them
or when they want an offi ce
space themselves.

Th e new offi ce, essentially,
at least according to Erdosi’s
design, will be a place where
workers want to go, not a place
where they have to go.

“Something that’s fun,” she
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Karen Daroff ,
owner, Daroff Design
Inc. + DDI Architects,
PC, Philadelphia
For both commercial and
residential projects, Daroff sees
a similar trend. She calls it
“inside-out spaces,” or outdoor
spaces that can be used the
same way people use indoor
living rooms: to hang out.

Restaurants have recap-
tured parking lots and streets
for outdoor dining; while
apartment complexes, condo-
minium buildings and even
senior living facilities have
added features like pool decks
and lounge areas.

Daroff says this trend, like
so many others, emerged out of
the COVID crisis.

In 2020 and ’21, area
residents started to redis-
cover the great outdoors aft er
spending so much time in their
homes. Th ey also developed a
more acute sense of how people
spread illness and a related
desire to trade small spaces and
large groups for open spaces
and smaller groups.

“People are more aware of
living a healthier lifestyle,”
Daroff said.

And with her commercial
office projects, Daroff is
noticing a similar theme. Like
Erdosi, she is designing offi ce
spaces to be for gathering as
much as working.

Many of Daroff ’s offi ce
blueprints include open
kitchen areas.

“It becomes a hub of the
offi ce,” she said.

Matt Kaplan, owner,
M Kaplan Interiors,
Malvern Kaplan understands the macro
developments in the interior
design industry. He has been
in the business for 30 years,
and his family has been in it for
100 years.

And he says that today, in
line with the multifunction-
ality and sociability of so many
spaces, customers want furni-
ture to withstand heavy and
continuous usage.

Customers are investing
more in furniture and, more
specifi cally, in pieces that
are both casual and durable,
according to Kaplan. On top
of furniture, customers now
prefer a fabric called Crypton
that is known for being, as
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