A reception desk with spots, and it is not a joke.
The counter front is a dalmatian pattern — curved, backlit along the base, and the single piece of humour in an otherwise disciplined room. It works because everything around it is restrained: travertine stair, pale oak, one deep navy accent wall.
Large black-and-white animal portraits do the emotional work, hung big enough to read from across the room. Brass pendants and warm terracotta seating keep the temperature up, which is what stops a clinical palette from feeling like a corridor.
