A Copper Tilt by Custom Design Stories

Some offices aim for neutrality, places where nothing really lingers in memory. This one in Gurgaon’s Magnum Global Park is not that kind of office. Designed by Custom Design Stories, led by Aditya Tognatta and Ananya Sharma, it spreads across 3,630 square feet and was conceived with a single, unapologetic idea at its core: presence. The client, a leading business promoter, wanted a space that would announce stature and intent, that would embody power not through symbols but through the weight of material and the drama of spatial sequence. Nearly forty percent of the plan was devoted to the Managing Director’s cabin and private lounge, an allocation that makes it clear where priorities were placed. The office is less about conventional work clusters and more about a sculptural, narrative environment where copper holds everything together.

The brief was precise: the plan had to accommodate the MD’s cabin, three other cabins, workstations, a reception, a waiting area, and a pantry. And the material palette had to be bold, industrial, durable, low-maintenance, yet dramatic. Copper became the thread that ran through the entire project. It appears in the inlays on micro-concrete floors, in the perforated ceiling panels, in the doors that separate zones, and in countless details that together create continuity. It is not just surface treatment but structure, shaping the way the office is experienced.

At the center lies the lounge, a social core where visitors are received. This is not an incidental waiting room but the primary point of engagement, framed by a liquid metal wall and anchored by bespoke furniture. The flooring and ceiling here run diagonally, not in conventional grids. The tilt is deliberate, a response to the acute angle of the site, but it also sets the tone for the entire project. The name, A Copper Tilt, comes from this decision. It feels dynamic and assertive, mirroring the spirit of the enterprise it was designed for. “The client wanted presence,” says Tognatta. “Every decision, from the slant of the ceiling to the weight of the materials, was shaped by that.” His partner Ananya Sharma adds, “Movement through the office is almost cinematic. Each door, each threshold opens into another mood, another light, another texture.”

From the lounge one moves into the Managing Director’s cabin through a solid copper door. Inside, the power play continues with an ensuite recreational room and a powder toilet, while red accents punctuate the otherwise restrained palette, adding warmth but also strength. Furniture is not off-the-shelf but tailored to the narrative. The conference table combines wood, aluminium, and metal in a single composition, integrated with advanced video-conferencing systems. In the lounge, ergonomics is hidden within sculptural forms: cylindrical legs sliced at angles to make seating that looks monumental but feels comfortable.

The client meeting area pushes the drama further. A wall finished with blotched liquid metal, created by pouring molten metal on a black base and then manipulating it manually with cloth, creates a surface alive with patina. It changes as light shifts through the day. Against this backdrop, each piece of furniture becomes part of the composition. A side table made from a broad oak stem fixed onto a rugged quarry stone base, a long abstract wall installation of wood, rattan, and metal discovered almost by chance but resonating perfectly with the palette, each element is both functional and sculptural. “It was serendipitous to find the piece,” Tognatta recalls. That sense of discovery sits easily within the design’s otherwise deliberate geometry.

Custom detailing runs everywhere. Rugs were developed through collaborations with local vendors, showing how relationships with craft communities can find their way into corporate interiors. Fluted wall intersections, flooring transitions, and diagonal alignments between floor and ceiling patterns are carefully plotted, never arbitrary. These decisions make the office not just memorable but precise, a space where each gesture supports the whole.

What makes A Copper Tilt stand apart is not extravagance but the discipline of intent. It is not soft, it is not neutral, and it does not try to blend in. Instead, it builds a personality through copper, through geometry, through layers of material that feel inevitable once seen. It is a workplace designed to remind, to impress, and to hold its own against the conventions of typical office interiors. For Style Essentials’ Design Diary, it reads as a blueprint of confidence, a project that values individuality over excess, and demonstrates how architecture can embody purpose as much as it provides space.

Fact File

Project name – A Copper Tilt

Location – Magnum Global Park, Sector 58, Gurgaon

Typology and Square Footage – Workspace Interiors / 3,630 sq.ft.

Photography Credit – Jubin Johnson

Principal Designer(s) – Aditya Tognatta, Ananya Sharma, Custom Design Stories