Beneath its award-winning London headquarters at 76 Charlotte Street, dMFK has transformed a lightless basement into ‘Downstairs at dMFK’ – a living sample library designed to showcase innovative products, strengthen relationships with pioneering suppliers and immerse the studio’s growing team in material exploration. Blurring the line between office, gallery and party place, the new spaces host flexible work, intimate suppers, gatherings, collaborative workshops, design talks, exhibitions, industry roundtables and more.
The architecture and interiors studio relocated to Fitzrovia in 2022, working with former dMFK employees Sher and White Architects, who helped them transform Channel 4’s former cinema and bar at 76 Charlotte Street into a residential-inspired creative office for 45 people. The new studio was a major boost for the practice, and soon after they secured major commissions from returning and new clients including The Grosvenor Estate, British Land, Lazari, Dorrington and the Tower 42 Estate – meaning the team had quickly outgrown the space.
Now approaching 60 staff, dMFK’s expansion into this 2,000 sqft Derwent London–owned basement has enabled the studio to create an open, flexible environment centred on creativity, collaboration and craft.
Accessed via a lushly planted narrow lightwell that has been mirrored to create the illusion that the space extends under the street, Downstairs at dMFK includes 16 workstations, a materials library, a bar, a family table to seat up to 22 and The Living Room – a rotating furniture display curated by twentytwentyone – alongside two meeting rooms, a two-person focus booth, kitchen and WCs. Every element has been designed to be flexible, and to encourage connection and experimentation, supporting the studio’s evolving ways of working.
Most importantly, dMFK invited suppliers to experiment in the space, and to try out products in development, provided that they worked with the Downstairs at dMFK aesthetic.
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