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I can remember when having “school pride” meant wearing the school colors and showing up for the pep rally.  In today’s schools “pride” has taken on a whole new form.  While it still includes cheering your team on, we are … Continue reading →

The nursing station the Studio designed for Glendale Memorial Hospital has a much broader market than even I initially thought. Stations like these need storage, transaction counters, modular electrical receptacles, and all kinds of computer and possible cash registers. True … Continue reading →

About a year ago Christina Wyrick, Healthcare Sales for Tangram Health+Space, asked the Studio to design a nursing station for Glendale Memorial Hospital. They were renovating each of the corridors and nursing areas on the patient floors. These spaces were perhaps … Continue reading →

When Hoag Hospital set up a new facility in Irvine the goal was to create a more personal hospital room experience. The problem was they could not find standard patient room furniture with the design or storage options needed. The design … Continue reading →

In an ideological sense, encompassing DIRTT, “a champion can be an evangelist, a visionary advocate who clears the field for the triumph of the idea.” Or the champion may merely make a strong case for a new vision to those … Continue reading →

The Studio is well known for our unique custom office furniture solutions. But there is another area that I call “partnership products” that not everyone is familiar with. These are situations where a manufacturer’s standard product offering may not include … Continue reading →

When the Orange County chapter of the American Institue of Architects (AIAOC) needed to update their project display system for the annual design competition, they engaged Tangram Studio & LPA, Inc. to come up with a solution. It needed to … Continue reading →

My career and education started as a graduate from Parson’s School of Design where I majored in interior design. After several years as a facilities manager on Wall Street, I joined a large manufacturer of systems furniture products on the … Continue reading →

“Doing it Right This Time (DIRTT) refers to creating sustainable, successful workspaces by vastly improving the speed, precision, agility and custom abilities of modular interior construction. DIRTT’s Agile Architectural Solutions are built on the philosophy of combining simplicity, self-expression and … Continue reading →

While most of the clients and designers working with the Studio are familiar with our custom office furniture solutions including workstations, private offices and conference tables few of them have seen all that we do in the area of custom … Continue reading →