Why spend all day working someplace with blank walls and fluorescent lights overhead? It's bad for the head, hard on the eyes and terrible for the soul.
Reggie's cage is pretty different than most. While some of the nicest restaurants, shops and homes are just north of us at the Biltmore, just to the south are some of the not-so-nicest. Point being, we pride ourselves on being urban and gritty, not stuffy or snooty. So a building made of steel, glass, exposed beams, ducts and concrete that is "hood adjacent" just made sense.
Lots of designers and architects wanted this space especially because it was an unfinished shell. We convinced the landlord to give it to us by sending over a Pyrex bowl of sugar with a note saying "Won't you be our neighbor?" How could he resist.
Then we faced the daunting task of building it out. We transformed our oxidized steel moth into a free-flowing butterfly pretty quickly. Creativity and communication flourish when you break down the literal and figurative walls of a work space. Do you have any idea how much commercial grade carpet and a decent phone system cost? Wow, did we learn a lot. What we also discovered is that a mediocre conference table cost the same as the best ping pong table in the world so guess which one we chose?
Our studio was built by Caliber Construction, one of the state's most respected commercial and residential builders. If you need something built choose Caliber. They are great people.
