The floor is covered by a grass print carpet, on which adjustable-height desks that allow workers to do their jobs standing up - improving blood circulation - are piled neatly.
It is not an avant-garde furniture warehouse but the new office of a design centre aimed at being the seed for a future exchange of creativity between Hong Kong and Denmark.
Innovation Centre Denmark Hong Kong, being inaugurated today, is the Danish government's fourth such centre in the world, after Silicon Valley, Munich and Shanghai. The Hong Kong centre is the first to focus on design.
Executive director Martine Gram Barbry said the centre's role was not only to bring Danish design philosophies and companies to this part of the world or match them with local firms. 'It's important that it's not just about Denmark [companies] coming to Hong Kong. We are eager to learn from Hong Kong as well as collaborating design industries between Europe and Asia,' she said.
Barbry said other cities such as Singapore and Seoul had been considered for setting up an innovation centre, which was created by the Danish Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Business and Growth. In the end, Hong Kong was selected.
'We thought Hong Kong has a lot of things going on. In terms of design, Hong Kong is among the most advanced [in Asia],' she said, citing the Octopus card as among the best designs to originate in Hong Kong.