Oct 27, 2009
Movin' On Up
Well, it's been a few years since I've needed to kick a coconut into all the corners of a new space (to absorb any potential bad juju, naturally) before moving in, but: here we go again!
The capable and strapping men at Bay City Movers have just spent about 9 hours on Tuesday loading all our stuff into a truck and moving it about 250 feet down the street to our new digs, at 2017 Mission St., Suite 300, in San Francisco. We can literally see the old studio out the windows of the new studio, and vise versa—so in geographical terms it's not such a big move, but the difference in the quality of the space is like night and day, the difference between this (and you shoulda seen it way back when):
and this:
It's a lot bigger than our old space, so we've spent the last couple of days rattling around the hallways and things are a bit chaotic, and in the case of the plant room/solarium, wonderfully so:
And the sunsets in the corner meeting room sure are lovely:
(all photos by Sha Hwang (who still owes me his bio), except the top one)
In some ways it's a shame to move now—Google just literally put Stamen on the map in their latest design update:
Sadly, it's at our old location.
Looks stunning!
Hey Eric, congratulations to your new office! The meeting room looks really nice (although the old one had a good deal of charm, too).
We're moving in our first office in January – is kicking a coconut mandatory for good luck? Any further advice on how to avoid bad juju would be appreciated.
I wish you and your team all the best.