Firmenich is one of the oldest and largest fragrance and flavor companies in the world. The company’s year-round program of events for select groups of industry insiders requires the flexibility to transform the usual sense of calm into the dramatic lighting scenarios of specific events.

In the atrium, a row of suspended beams house fluorescent up-lights. Their light, reflecting off the concrete slab above, creates the impression of an exterior pergola structure.

The same beams baffle theatrical light fixtures which allow a slowly-moving pattern of light and shadow to fill the atrium, suggesting sunlight filtering through the branches of a tree.

The conference room on the lower level features a special round table that displays holographic images of upcoming products.

Two-story high structure of suspended glass shelves screens the view from the open space into the conference rooms of both levels. The entire glass structure is subtly lit by an arrangement of deeply recessed fluorescent lights concealed along its vertical edge.