CEO and founder, Natalie Hartkopf waited ten years before the perfect showroom became available at the Chicago Merchandise Mart. When she signed the lease for her Chicago showroom, opening in 4 short months for NeoCon, she enlisted Casework to bring it all together. At Casework, we're pulling back the curtain to share just about anything design related with the BIPOC community.
Our hope is to candidly answer questions about what it's like to work and run a business in interior architecture. From portfolio feedback to career advice and development, we are here to share years of experience and different perspectives and paths. You set the agenda! After a three-year stint abroad in Amsterdam with their two young kids, our clients had big dreams of a small chalet!
Their time abroad informed the decision making and influences for the home. Celebrate International Women's Day with the work of 13 inspiring designers whose contributions to architecture, interior design, industrial design, and beyond are changing the game.
Our hope is to candidly answer questions about what it's like to work and run a business in interior architecture. From portfolio feedback to career advice and development, we are here to share years of experience and different perspectives and paths. You set the agenda! After a three-year stint abroad in Amsterdam with their two young kids, our clients had big dreams of a small chalet!
Their time abroad informed the decision making and influences for the home. Celebrate International Women's Day with the work of 13 inspiring designers whose contributions to architecture, interior design, industrial design, and beyond are changing the game.
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Casework is an interior design studio focused on environments and how they are experienced. The quality of an environment is one of the greatest and most overlooked sources of happiness. The power of design is transformative. Our goal is to understand our client's needs and ideas and translate them into a space.
At Casework, we provide creative vision through the final coordination of interiors for residential and commercial projects. We work with clients nationwide with services ranging from interior design, interior architecture to furniture design. This includes coordination with architects, engineers, general contractors as well as subcontractors and custom fabricators.
Awarded Best Small Showroom and Best in Show at NeoCon 2019 by IIDA and Contract Magazine. We believe that the story of a space is just as important as the design and the objects that go into it - it all plays into the experience. Hightower, CEO and founder, Natalie Hartkopf waited ten years before the perfect showroom became available at the Chicago Merchandise Mart.
When the homeowners first purchased the house, it was compartmentalized, outdated, and nonfunctional for their growing family. Casey designed the owner's previous kitchen and family room and was brought in to lead up the creative direction for the project. She teamed up with architect Paul Crowther and brother sister team Ainslie Davis on the addition and remodel of the 1925 Colonial.
After a three-year stint abroad in Amsterdam with their two young kids, our clients had big dreams of a small chalet! Their time abroad informed their decision making and influences for the home. The active family wanted a low-maintenance weekend retreat that would "give us energy and not take it away".
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Rick Shandy
Sep 13, 2018
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We recently finished working together on an 18,000 sf creative office space with Casework Design. I have never worked with a design firm that was so responsive and easy to work with. Whenever there was an issue or need for clarification on the site, we would most often get an immediate response from Casework on how to deal with the situation. I have never worked with a design firm of such quality who would answer the phone or email so quickly day, night or weekend. They moved this high end project forward quickly and smoothly. They understood the client's needs nearly perfectly so were never hesitant
