Sowen Social Club and Offices – Paris

The Sowen Social Club is both a lifestyle and a workstyle venue at 168 Avenue Charles de Gaulle in a beautifully renovated building at the cutting edge of environmental performance. In a hybrid-work organisation, the project argues, people come to the office above all to collaborate, exchange, socialise, celebrate and live together; the interior is therefore programmed around that collective ambition rather than around isolated desks. A large material library full of carefully sourced objects acts as the team's daily working tools, and the studio takes particular care to specify the most eco-responsible materials available, in line with Sowen's corporate social responsibility commitments. Gathered around a big table, the team works in project mode, treating the office itself as a shared instrument rather than a backdrop. The renovated building is positioned at the leading edge of environmental performance, pairing sustainability with a social, domestic atmosphere in which work and celebration are deliberately interleaved. The result is a workspace designed around the rituals of meeting, eating and making things together, where the material palette and the social programme carry equal weight. Project details are limited in the source material.