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Butternut Box

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Butternut Box are a bold and creative brand, dedicated to providing the highest quality nutrition for dogs. Their rapid growth has seen them feed more and more dogs, and ultimately meant that they outgrew their shared serviced office and needed a space to call their own.

Inspired by the joyful experience of taking a dog for a walk, the office features bright, bold engagement zones alongside serene collaboration areas. One of these is ‘The Park’ – the largest meeting room in the space – where the auditorium-style seating and a conversation pit encourage social interaction among employees. We teamed this with ergonomic and organic design elements, such as the curves and natural finishes, that mimic the organic flow of a park. This thoughtful design promotes productivity and well-being, ensuring that our design enhances creativity and meets the ambition to create ‘the greatest place you’ve ever worked’ for the team at Butternut Box.

    Functionality paired with playful aesthetics

    Butternut Box as a brand is playful and vibrant at it’s core, so when designing this scheme we knew that it was important to carry this sentiment through to the space. The colour palette reflects this, where the ‘Butternut Box yellow’ is elevated to a sophisticated, pastel yellow — seen most clearly in the checkerboard tiling in the kitchen area. The checkerboard tiling — a focus feature of the space, is a direct nod to Butternut Box’s product boxes and logo, which, alongside warm wood tones and panelling, cement the Butternut Box branding in to the space.

    "Much like Butternut Box’s brand, the project intent has been to pair a deeply human playfulness with elevated, premium design. Together we’ve crafted a joyful space which can bring out the best in all users, whether they be two or four legged."

    Caitlin WestgateCreative Director

    Design fit for the four-legged friends

    With “dogs at the heart” of Butternut Box as a business, it was a no-brainer for our design to feature elements that provide comfort for the four-legged office users, while not compromising the employee experience. The inclusion of a dog-bowl ‘station’ in the kitchen, the resting places for dog beds, and lead hooks under all desks ensure that the needs of the dogs are fully integrated in the space. To reduce potential distractions, all meeting rooms feature lower glass sections to prevent dogs from seeing each other — alongside these features, the materials used throughout the space are dog-friendly, with most being wipeable and durable enough to withstand continued use from both people and their pets.