Dani Arps

With a dozen-odd start-up offices under her belt, the designer is making waves in the world of workplaces.

- Akiva Blander

Dani Arps neither subscribes to nor rejects contemporary workplace design trends. She readily embraces the push to provide employees with comfortable and amenity-rich spaces. Some ideas, like the now-ubiquitous (although increasingly criticized) open-plan layout, Arps cautiously endorses, depending on the client: “It’s not good, it’s not bad, but it doesn’t necessarily work for most offices,” she says. Still other trends, like the obsession with socalled millennial pink, Arps dismisses outright (“It’s a beautiful color, but I’ve seen designs that go overboard. Like, why did this cotton candy ball explode all over this restaurant?”).