This co-designed media center grew out of a consulting process with a client whose home was the most stressful of their three main environments. Through an assessment that included both the client and their life partner, a single product solution—a media center—emerged as the clearest way to calm and organize their shared space.
Anchored in the couple’s values of minimalism and material authenticity, the piece was built from scavenged wood and repurposed, heavy-duty hardware, with oversized screws reimagined as structural pins. Across three iterations of form and function, the design process modeled G.I.G. Design’s approach: treating clients as collaborators and using honest, modest materials to transform daily stress points into grounded, value-aligned environments.
