We tracked down these hard-to-find items to create a directory for those with a discerning eye for design.
Fewer people are aware that recent top Apple Stores contain a hidden space called the Boardroom. Each Boardroom is decorated with a collection of premium furniture and accessories from some of the most respected designers in the world.
Boardrooms aren’t a company secret but are generally closed to the public. Access is limited to business meetings, artists hosting Today at Apple sessions, and private events. Apple describes the Boardroom as a space more intimate than the main store area and flexible enough to showcase any business solution.
Former Retail SVP Angela Ahrendts formally announced the Boardroom concept in May 2016 when Apple Union Square opened in San Francisco. The design and furnishings of the spaces are directly inspired by Apple Park, meaning that each Boardroom brings a small taste of Cupertino with it. Accessories and furniture in each store vary based on age, size, and location. Most Boardrooms contain at least one item unique to the city or country the store is located in.
In the blog post you will find pictures, linked references and details on:
- Seating
- Tables
- Storage
- Lamps
- Vases
- Sculptures & accessories
- and Books!
Here’s a list of books that have been spotted in various Boardrooms:
- 25,000 Years Of Jewelry
- A Book Of Things
- Ai Weiwei
- Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
- Ando: Complete Works 1975-Today
- Andy Goldsworthy: Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014
- Bird
- Brazil Modern: The Rediscovery of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Furniture
- Brick: A World History
- Calatrava Complete Works 1979-Today
- Capital Drawings: Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress
- City Of Darkness: Revisited
- Concrete
- Creature
- Death Drive: There Are No Accidents
- Designed by Apple in California
- Designing TWA: Eero Saarinen’s Airport Terminal in New York
- Dieter Rams: As Little Design As Possible
- Documenting Science
- Flower
- Gaudí The Complete Buildings
- Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective
- Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
- Hundertwasser
- I Don’t Have a Favourite Colour
- Insecta
- Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World
- Issey Miyake
- James Turrell: A Retrospective
- Josef Albers: Sublime Optics
- Ladislav Sutnar: Visual Design in Action
- Le Corbusier Le Grand
- Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
- Norman Foster: Works 6
- Patterns from Nature
- Pleats Please
- Remember those great Volkswagen ads?
- Reporting From The Front: Biennale Architettura 2016
- Richard Neutra
- Richard Serra 2014
- Skywood House: The Architecture of Graham Phillips
- Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo
- Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia
- The High Line
- The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
- The Last Stand: Northern Europe
- The Reichstag Graffiti
- The Sketchbooks Revealed
- The World of Charles and Ray Eames
- This Brutal World
- Thomas Heatherwick: Making
- Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
- Vogue: The Gown
- Wang Shu Architecture
- Water Towers
- Wiener Werkstätte
- Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty
- You are an Acceptable Level of Threat and If You Were Not You Would Know About it
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