Okamura — four cities: the furniture company that made its own offices the showroom

Concept

Four offices, four sentences, no house style

Most furniture companies show a showroom. Okamura shows the offices its own staff work in, gives each one a name, and attaches a sentence to it — and the four sentences do not agree with each other.

Tokyo’s CO-RiZ is about the efficiency of a team working across departments. Osaka’s K!ZUK! is about trust, and about individual qualities harmonising like instruments in an orchestra. Nagoya’s MENNOLU says each person is the protagonist. Fukuoka’s HAPPI is about co-creation happening spontaneously, through the five senses. These are four different theories of what an office is for, and the company has built all four rather than choosing.

The rooms bear it out. Tokyo is the most conventionally efficient, Osaka is the most colourful, Nagoya is the most domestic, and Fukuoka is the one with the planting and the grass-green floor.

01 · CO-RiZ LABO

Tokyo, and the case for a team

The Tokyo office is built around shared settings — a counter with stools, a colour-blocked working floor, and timber screens that make a row of half-enclosed places to sit.

02 · K!ZUK! LABO

Osaka, and the orchestra

Osaka runs a long shared table with planting down the middle, a wall in strong pink, and a lounge under a geometric ceiling.

03 · MENNOLU LABO

Nagoya, and the protagonist

Nagoya is the softest of the four — a reception that opens straight onto the floor, round paper shades over a lounge, and open desking beyond.

04 · HAPPI LABO

Fukuoka, and the five senses

Fukuoka puts a grass-green floor under the working area, plants heavily, and finishes with a red-walled lounge at the end of the room.