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ILLUSTRATOR: OSCAR FRANCIS WRITER: CHRISTOPHER STOCKS

If you were going to commission someone to design

a break-out space, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia might

not be the first person you’d call on. But before he

became a bed-and-breakfast billionaire, Gebbia was an

industrial-design grad from the Rhode Island School

of Design, and when Jerry Helling, president and

creative director of Bernhardt Design, suggested they

work on a furniture line together, Gebbia jumped at

the chance. The result, called ‘Neighborhood’, is a set

of 38 modules that can be combined to form endlessly

flexible break-out areas for offices and public spaces.

With integrated USB and power sockets and sound-

absorbent materials, ‘Neighborhood’ is designed

to evolve with the company around it. ∂

‘Neighborhood’, by Joe Gebbia,

for Bernhardt Design

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FROM OTTOMANS TO

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WORK TABLES. FROM

$600 PER PIECE,

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