{"id":216127,"date":"2023-09-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=216127"},"modified":"2023-09-15T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T16:20:23","slug":"ries-hayes-valar-ventures-office-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/ries-hayes-valar-ventures-office-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ries Hayes Expands Its Offerings With This Striking Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The reception area of Valar Ventures, an investment firm, introduces the office\u2019s residential-leaning program, with Ico Parisi 850 chairs, a M\u00e4rta M\u00e5\u00e5s-Fjetterstr\u00f6m rug, all vintage, and a trio of Matthew Brannon silk screens, which, like all the artworks, come from the clients\u2019 collection. \n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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September 25, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Lisa Di Venuta<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Stephen Kent Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ries Hayes Expands Its Offerings With This Striking Office<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Thad Hayes has been in the business for decades. But Ries Hayes<\/a> was only just founded in 2021 by him and coprincipal David Ries\u2014and is already making a name for itself with apartments in New York and seaside homes along the Massachusetts coast. Thanks to a referral from an architect on a project in the latter category, the fledgling studio is now bringing its functional, timeless appeal to the commercial sector, starting with a 7,500-square-foot workplace in Manhattan for Valar Ventures. \u201cThey came to us because they didn\u2019t want a typical office rollout,\u201d Ries says of the venture capital company cofounders, who also share a mutual affinity for mid-century Scandinavian furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Valar Ventures, Modern Danish-Meets-Bauhaus Design\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before selecting furnishings, however, Ries and studio director Emily Meroney embarked upon a gut renovation, reorganizing the floor-through space to mimic the city grid. Fluted oak partitions such zones as reception, which feels more salon than workplace, while drywall and glass-and-steel storefront systems delineate offices, meeting and conference rooms, and a flex space referred to as the den. In keeping with a modern Danish-meets-Bauhaus aesthetic<\/a>\u2014\u201cGiven the New York location, nodding to the industrial movement felt appropriate,\u201d Ries notes\u2014leather joins wood and metal in the material palette: It wraps four structural columns, upholsters much of the seating, including Mario Bellini chairs and a Sergio Rodrigues sofa, and panels an entire wall in a founder\u2019s office. Other office walls, by the way, are faced in dove-gray linen tweed, a solution that brings improved acoustics and a residential note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In another office, a Naoto Fukasawa Harbor chair stands before a Keno Bros. Peekaboo screen, which conceals mechanicals. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Linen tweed wallcovering softens an office, furnished with Bonderup & Thorup\u2019s Calot pendant fixtures, which appear throughout the 7,500-square-foot workplace. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s probably the expert curation of the furnishings throughout that brings the project, well, home. Nearly every item is vintage, sourced from European dealers, local galleries, or, in a pinch, online. One founder\u2019s office, for instance, centers on a table with a sculptural swirled-wood base, a rare 1960\u2019s<\/a> piece by Philip LaVerne; the other\u2019s has a pair of blue swivel chairs Gardner Leaver designed for Steelcase in the \u201970\u2019s, while reception hosts a set of streamlined lounges Ico Parisi did for Cassina in the \u201950\u2019s<\/a>. Overhead, in most spaces, Ries and Meroney hung quadrants of newly reissued, late \u201960\u2019s Danish pendant fixtures, creating rhythm and continuity. Underfoot, \u201950\u2019s Swedish and antique Persian rugs recall manifold centuries, their vibrant hues corresponding with the contemporary artworks, from the clients\u2019 own collections, adorning walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not looking at trends,\u201d Ries adds. \u201cOur spaces are familiar yet current.\u201d That explains an office\u2019s very today Naoto Fukasawa chair paired with a playful, interactive room divider by the Keno brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk Through the Valar Ventures Office in Manhattan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In a founder\u2019s office featuring a 1960\u2019s Philip LaVerne coffee table, wallcovering switches to leather. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The reception area of Valar Ventures, an investment firm, introduces the office\u2019s residential-leaning program, with Ico Parisi 850 chairs, a M\u00e4rta M\u00e5\u00e5s-Fjetterstr\u00f6m rug, all vintage, and a trio of Matthew Brannon silk screens, which, like all the artworks, come from the clients\u2019 collection. \n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Reception\u2019s DC 2001A coffee table is by Vincenzo De Cotiis. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Behind reception\u2019s red Mario Bellini chairs, fluted oak partitions divvy space. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Custom glass-and-steel storefront systems separate offices from the flex area called the den and its Sergio Rodrigues Tonico sofa. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the other founder\u2019s office, 1970\u2019s swivel chairs by Gardner Leaver stand on an 18th-century Karabagh rug. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gastone Rinaldi\u2019s Dione chairs, an Edward Wormley sofa, and a Swedish table and rug, all vintage, outfit the meeting room. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
project sources from front<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n

through sputnik modern: blue chairs (reception).
through carpenters workshop gallery: coffee table.
through 1stdibs: coffee table (office 1), desk, red chairs (reception), coffee table (partner office 2), sofa, coffee table (den).
arte: leather wallcovering (partner office 1).
through lobel modern: coffee table.
through doris leslie blau: rug.
through studio schalling: sofa, chairs (partner office 1), table (meeting room). through the gallery at 200 lex: floor lamp, white side table (partner office 1), sofa (meeting room).
through converso modern: desk chair (reception).
holly hunt: column leather.
b&b italia: swivel chair (office 2).
through chairish: screen.
through wyeth: sofa (partner office 2).
through almond & co.: chairs.
through nazmiyal antique rugs: rug.
through donzella: chairs (meeting room).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

project sources throughout<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n

phillip jeffries: wallcovering.
fj hakimian: swedish rugs.
carl hansen & s\u00f8n: pendant fixtures.
benjamin moore & co.: paint.
patino architecture: architect of record.
fischer furniture: millwork.
jrm construction: general contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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