The Big Apple is picking up a West Coast vibe after Olson Kundig’s announcement that it will be expanding its operation into New York City for the first time.

The award-winning firm has been in business since 1966, operating out of a renovated space in Seattle’s old Shoe Factory Building since the project’s completion in 2003.

Olson Kundig's new East Coast outpost will be located on the tenth floor of a historic Jazz Age building located in Midtown’s Bryant Park neighborhood. The office features a central collective space called The Living Room, which is anchored by a particularly PNW import personally designed by Tom Kundig with built-in turntables from Seattle icon Sub Pop Records.

“While Olson Kundig previously occupied a small workspace in New York, this new office represents a more significant investment in office space and participation with the design culture of the city,” CEO and principal Hemanshu Parwani explained. “From a business perspective, it will improve client relations and project delivery throughout the East Coast and international markets, while allowing us to recruit top design talent.”

In addition to their founder’s contribution, staffers will sit surrounded by the firm’s curated collection of art taken from the Seattle office’s 11-year-old The Ledge gallery. Olson Kundig has completed several residential and office interiors projects in New York and hopes to further establish a long-lasting revenue stream.

“Opening a New York office space allows us to share a bit of the Pacific Rim and our ‘unstable edge’ mentality with the East Coast, forging new relationships and opportunities for collaboration,” principal Alan Maskin, who served as design lead for the new office, said in a statement. “That influence goes both ways, of course – shared cultural events and firm culture creates a river that flows between the two cities, exchanging ideas and energy back and forth.”