Notion’s new San Francisco HQ is an ode to classic design

With mood lighting, iconic furniture, and lots of wood, the software company wants its Market Street space to look like anything but the office of a software company.

[Photo: courtesy IA Interior Architects]

Ever since offices have existed, they’ve projected a certain image of the companies who build them. And in the tech space, this has usually meant a forward-looking aesthetic—Apple’s spaceship, Amazon’s geodesic domes, and Bell Labs’ mirrored complex. It’s a fitting, and often repeated, conceit for businesses that are designing the future. (Or want to be perceived as such.)  

This pattern is part of the reason why the new San Francisco headquarters of Notion, a productivity software company that pivoted to AI a few years........

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