Wellness

By practicing a seamless weave of evidence-based research, prototyping, and design, we imagine and create environments and experiences that empower wellbeing. We make people the priority in each project, hoping all can thrive and flourish in the places they live, learn, work, play and heal. 

Our focus on healthy spaces spans years of research, study, and implementation. Comprehensive knowledge of healthy environments is important now more than ever, especially with the understanding and management of airborne particles as related to COVID-19 and the significant impact on human health. In addition to responsive design and achieving a healthy interior environment toxins must be lowered — and ideally eliminated — for maximum health and wellness.

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is automatically affected by the toxic load created in the design and build process. In addition, just the daily use of the spaces we occupy to live, work, and play — whether home or office — has adverse effects on IAQ. Cooking, bathing, cleaning, and personal products all impact the indoor environment and human well being.

We evaluate limiting and eliminating toxins from environments and carefully specify low-emitting materials, adhesives, and finishes for clients’ projects. These toxins are commonly found in permanent building materials and finishes as well as in typical furnishings. We guide you through the best practices to lower the risk of exposure to harmful elements and chemicals while also creating a healthy, beautiful, and functional interior environment be it home or office. Finally, we make every effort to avoid  specifying furnishings and finishes that contain the following chemicals found to be harmful to human health: