Commission

Design Services is the half of the studio's practice that lives outside the Airstream. It runs in parallel with our commission work and shares the same conviction: that good interiors are slow, that materials should be allowed to assert themselves, and that the most durable spaces are the ones designed for a single place and a single life.

Led by Negar Vali, the practice draws on a Yabu Pushelberg-trained foundation in proportion, material rigor, and tonal restraint. Each project is approached as a long study of its context — its light, its weather, its uses — before a single specification is written.

Eras Airstream interior detail — Seattle. A study in patina, light, and considered objects.
Eras · Seattle · 2023 · Detail

Scope · What we do

Three registers of work.

The studio takes projects across three overlapping scales — from full interiors down to the singular made object.

— Residences

Full interiors

Renovations and new-build interiors for private residences. We accept a small number per year, working closely with the homeowner across material selection, joinery, lighting, and built-in furniture.

— Commercial

Hospitality & retail

Small hospitality projects, ateliers, and retail environments where the interior is the brand. We program for endurance — surfaces that age well, finishes that improve under use.

— Objects

Furniture & commissioned objects

Site-specific furniture, fixtures, and made objects. Drawn, prototyped, and fabricated in our Coquille shop, often as part of a larger interior project but available on their own.

— Consult

Material consultation

Material and finishes consulting for owner-builders and other studios who need a second set of eyes on palette, sourcing, or detail. Engaged by the day.

The Approach · 04 Phases

Brief · Site · Specify · Realize

The arc of a Design Services engagement, from the first conversation to a built room. Each phase has its own pace.

01 — Brief

Listen, deeply

We begin with conversation. How the space will be lived in, what it has to do, what is being kept and what is being released. The brief is co-written.

02 — Site

Read the place

We visit. Light is measured, materials sampled in context, neighboring buildings considered. The site is a primary author of the design.

03 — Specify

Draw and source

Plans, elevations, joinery details, material schedules. We specify what we'll fabricate in-house and curate what we won't.

04 — Realize

Build and install

Fabrication moves between our shop and the site. We commission the work as a finished interior — installed, photographed, and handed over.

Design Services · Now booking 2026 / 2027

A site you'd like to slow down.

If you have a residence, a space, or a project that asks for time and care — let's talk. The studio responds to every inquiry personally.

Art in the Aftermath

Perpetually Devastated

Coquille, Oregon Est. 2015 In delighted defiance