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MANE USA Fragrance Company Office and Laboratory Headquarters

Best of 2024
Platinum Award
Consumers may never know that the essence of many of the foods and fragrances they enjoy originate in the enterprise of Victor Mane, who founded a distillery in southeastern France to produce fragrant materials from regional flowers and plants in 1871. Today, businesses in 39 countries depend on products from the Mane Group, backed by 27 manufacturing plants, 50 R&D centers and 77 offices worldwide, led by Jean Mane, a member of the fifth generation of the founding family. BR Design’s design of a two-floor, 15,562-square-foot New York space for Mane USA reflects the importance of the site, comprising a sales office, innovation center and fine fragrance studio. The facility has been conceived with an open plan where perfumers and evaluators “hot spot” at unassigned workstations and enclosed spaces provide high-performance air circulation so odors can be properly extracted for perfumers to smell. Organized by teams for sales and marketing, logistics, perfumer and evaluator, and management with ample collaborative areas, the design uses natural materials (stressing organic and green sources), glass and copper and black metal detailing to create a modern, minimal environment that is both functional and chic. A mixture of pendant and cove lighting provide sophisticated finishing touches.

The Design Process

The space was designed to be very open plan, with perfumers & evaluators hot-spotting – no one has assigned workstations which is very uncommon for perfumers. Special attention had to be paid to creating enough enclosed spaces where air circulation was key and smells could be properly extracted in order for the perfumers to have function spaces to ‘smell’. Very organic materials, natural woods, lots of green materials which is the ethos of most perfumer companies as they are using sustainable & natural product. 

The team included Chase Kaars, Caela Mone, Michael Rait, and more. 

 

Sustainability

There is a greenwall behind reception when you enter the space.

Awards

Earned Interior Design Magazine Rising Giants Status

Notes

Most of the lighting featured copper accents, the ceiling was mostly open slab, we coordinated with an acoustic engineer to ensure that sound levels in the space would not be too overpowering and installed a lot of pendant lighting and cove light details to add a sense of splendor.

 

Also, an article was published about this project: Mane Debuts Renovated New York Fine Fragrance Creative Center | Perfumer & Flavorist (perfumerflavorist.com)

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