Every May, Clerkenwell becomes a temporary city within the city. Coffee queues spill onto pavements. Architects migrate in groups. There’s always someone carrying a terrazzo sample. Conversations about acoustics suddenly become fashionable.
Clerkenwell Design Week attracts more than 38,000 visitors across three days, with 160+ showrooms and 600+ events spread across the area. By lunchtime, half of Clerkenwell is standing in the street holding sparkling water and taking meetings. Product launches overlap with wine pours.
This year, Bureau joins the program with the opening of its first dedicated London showroom at 3 Albemarle Way, EC1V 4RQ.
The idea behind the space came from a simple observation: during Clerkenwell Design Week, everybody talks about wellbeing while surviving on cortisol, flat whites, and 11-minute conversations.
So we built something calmer.
Chaos Outside. Calm Inside.
From 19–21 May, the Bureau showroom becomes a place to reset between meetings, re-focus during the day, and experience workplace design through atmosphere as much as furniture.
Inside:
- Fresh juices, coffee, and hydration stations
- An aromatherapy zone designed around mood, focus, and sensory fatigue
- Office Survival Kits to take away
- Bookable 15-minute massage chair resets
- Space to sit down without balancing a laptop on your knees
On Wednesday, 20 May, Bureau will host a Happy Hour from 16:00–18:00.
Good drinks. Familiar faces. Better conversations than “What stand have you seen?”
- 19–21 May
- 3 Albemarle Way
- London EC1V 4RQ
Explore Clerkenwell Design Week
Design as the Solution to Broken Offices
The showroom also reflects a larger shift in how offices are judged.
Microsoft’s Work Trend Index found employees switch between apps and tasks more than 1,100 times per day. Most offices still operate as though concentration arrives in long, uninterrupted blocks.
That gap becomes physical quickly. Corridors become breakout spaces. Kitchens turn into meeting rooms. Noise-canceling headphones become as mandatory as security badges.
We used to measure offices in square footage.
Now we measure them in concentration spans.
Come by to say hello or contact us for more info.
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