Research has shown that office lighting can greatly affect employee happiness and wellbeing. Therefore, when it comes to workplace design, it is a crucial element of the interiors mix.

Choosing Dutch Design Week as its platform, Ontwerpduo – from design duo Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink – launches its new lighting brand: ‘Aptum’. Combining practicality with beauty, the fixtures are more akin to works of art. Adaptable by name – ‘Aptum’ is a literal translation – and by nature, the lights will work in all manner of workplace and hospitality settings.

Photography by Jeroen van der Wielen

The current trend for workplace reinvention has seen designers go to great lengths in order to transform rooms crammed with desks into engaging spaces. Studio Boing has taken this task to the extreme. The Office Jungle draws inspiration from the wild for its suspended geodesic structure, offering workers the opportunity to climb from their desks onto a wooden frame above.

Although left-field, it’s beautifully designed and certainly beats sitting in an overcrowded space.

Photography by Hannah Sorrell