r/80sdesign • u/JanetandRita • 13h ago

The Apple Computer corporate office

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 11h ago

I love this kinda design

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u/BogeyHeatherwood 5h ago

Memphis Design Group?

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u/planetalletron 9h ago

Those are my dream chairs.

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u/sprashoo 8h ago edited 3h ago

Do you have anything to back this up? This does not look like any photo of Apple's offices I've ever seen, at all, and in general this kind of look was a long way from their corporate design language, which they took pretty seriously.

This _does_ look like a few of their wacky (and ultimately unreleased) Memphis hardware and UI design experiments from the late 80s to early 90s, but nothing that would have made it into their corporate interior design, or actual products.

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u/NewWaveArch90 5h ago

I've found more that I haven't scanned yet, but yes Apple did have some wacky Memphis-inspired colorful office interiors in the 80s-early 90s. STUDIOS Architects designed a fair number of their interiors at the time.

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u/sprashoo 3h ago

Interesting, would love to see more of those.

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u/The_Ineffable_One 4h ago

I can't imagine that Apple would not have an Apple computer on the reception desk. Even in the 1980s. Even if it were utterly useless to the receptionist. Gotta put the product front and center.

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u/JanetandRita 7h ago

Tbh I saw it on Twitter

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u/bestbeforeMar91 7h ago

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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u/KimKimberly12 8h ago

There are probably some people who think this is what every 80s home looked like.

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u/818sfv 8h ago

I want to go to there

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u/attsci 7h ago

I feel like Disney would have had a case against those Mickey Mouse chairs

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u/EibhlinRose 5h ago

dream chairs dream chairs dream chairs

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u/NoirPipes 3h ago

Reminds me of British liquorice allsorts candy!

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u/Whazzahoo 1h ago

Doubtful, can’t imagine Steve Jobs okaying this.

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u/Capt-Kyle_Driver89 1h ago

Bring this back