It would have taken a brave soul to first bring one of these into the office, but the French-designed bubble desk has just taken off in Paris and protects the worker under a plexiglas dome, cutting them off from the rest of their colleagues. It comes as part of a complete office design that includes a giant communal desk, eight Ficus Panda Trees, a cloakroom and a kitchen. It ensures the worker remains detached from the sneezes and banter of daily office life although quite what it does for one’s popularity remains to be seen
The Bubble Desk Office designed by Christian Pottgiesser ensures you no longer have to hear or laugh at your colleagues’ jokes. The thinking behind the bubble desk is that offers the worker privacy while still being connected to a large, communal desk. It is a modern take on partitioned office space popular in the 1980s and which offered privacy but no visibility or sense of connection to colleagues. The trees are designed to compensate for the lack of scenery and are rooted into beds of soil buried out of sight.
