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Morrissey Hospitality
Where the Office Welcomes Like the Brand
PROJECT SNAPSHOT
Client
Morrissey Hospitality
Location
St. Paul, Minnesota
Space Type
Corporate headquarters — hospitality company office remodel
Scope
Remodel of a quarter-century-old hospitality company’s headquarters to reflect an updated brand — three executive suites, eleven open-office desks, three manager offices, a collaborative zone, conference room, and a kitchen designed for client entertaining. Glass corridor for guest flow, living plant walls for biophilics and acoustics, brand-colored carpet insets, and a palette engineered to elevate modest finishes — all on a focused budget.
THE SPACE BEFORE
Morrissey Hospitality was founded over 25 years ago, and the company was evolving — updating their brand with a fresh perspective to appeal to today’s clientele. But the office hadn’t evolved with it. The space needed to do more than house desks and meeting rooms. For a company whose entire business is built on understanding what hospitality means, the headquarters had to embody that understanding. Visitors and employees alike needed to walk in and feel the story of a company that gets it — a reverence for tradition, interpreted in a modern way.
THE DESIGN DIRECTION
The brief was dense: three executive suites, eleven open desks, three manager-level offices, a collaborative workspace, a functional conference room, and a kitchen worthy of entertaining clients — all within a focused budget that covered space modifications, built-ins, and furniture. The design had to maximize capacity and collaborative opportunities while creating enough personal space for focused work. And it had to be impactful from the vestibule — the kind of entrance that subtly tells visitors this company understands what it means to welcome someone.
WHAT WE WORKED WITH (AND AROUND)
A glass corridor that separates guests from the working office. When clients visit a hospitality company, the journey from the front door to the meeting space matters. We designed a glass corridor that lets daylight transmit through the entire office while giving guests a clear, uninterrupted path to the entertainment and conference spaces. The colored carpet insets are visible through the glass, drawing the eye forward. And the people working at their desks on the other side of the glass aren’t interrupted by visitor traffic. It’s a hospitality move inside a hospitality company’s own office.
Office alleys that maximize daylight. Rather than a conventional open-office grid, we aligned the office layout to create alleys — corridors between workstations that channel daylight deeper into the space. Every desk benefits. The layout also naturally supports privacy and separation without relying on full-height walls, keeping the space feeling open and connected.
Living plant walls that work three ways. Short walls between zones are capped with live plants. They look good — that’s the biophilic benefit, bringing nature into the workspace. They also improve air quality through updated HVAC filtration supplemented by the plants themselves. And they absorb sound, providing an acoustic buffer for phone calls and conversations without adding hard surfaces or enclosed rooms. One design element, three measurable outcomes.
A palette that makes modest finishes look elevated. The budget required creative material strategy. We kept the existing carpet body and added brand-colored insets for character and spatial definition. New LVT was introduced only in high-traffic areas. Select furniture was repurposed. And the color palette was specifically crafted so that less expensive finishes read with a higher perceived value — charcoal black trim and accents cleanly showcase the more complex interior architecture, and the neutral base with punctuated color gives the space a richness that doesn’t depend on premium materials.
A kitchen that earns its place. For a hospitality company, the kitchen isn’t a break room — it’s a venue. The space was designed to support hosted events and client entertaining, with a neutral base that allows the company to highlight current clients and adapt the setting for different occasions. The versatility is the point: the same room that serves Tuesday lunch serves a catered client event on Thursday evening.
THE OUTCOME
Walk into Morrissey Hospitality’s St. Paul headquarters and the space practices what the company preaches. The glass corridor welcomes visitors with daylight and color while protecting the working office. The plant-topped walls soften the acoustics and clean the air. The office alleys give every employee access to natural light. And the palette — charcoal accents against a rich neutral base with strategic color — makes the whole space feel more expensive than it is.
The result is a modern interpretation of a quarter-century of hospitality expertise. It’s an office that entertains clients as well as it supports daily work, built on a budget that demanded resourcefulness and delivered elegance. For a company that sells the art of making people feel welcome, their own space now does the selling before anyone on the team says a word.
RECOGNITION
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