Business

Confidential Client

Our team helped create this beautiful, six-floor work environment for our client that fosters collaboration, elevates employee satisfaction, and prioritizes health and wellness.

Reception area with large central desk and two seating areas. Woman sits on brown sofa with built in planter, blue area rug, light blue lounge chairs.

Cafe with seating area in foreground with U-backed lounge chairs and pouf seating. Girl reading book. Coffee bar in background. cafe and hi-top tables

Cafeteria with wavy wood drop panels from ceiling. Couple sits in booth which blue seats, order counter on left with chef and customer. Tall planters.

Work cafeteria with u-shaped booths along windowed walls and bar and stool seating on the right. Woman eats in booth, and another further away at the bar.

Long training center with narrow wood tables and grey wheeled chairs. Partitions open. Projectors mounted along ceiling. Trio of young women look at laptop

Man sits on cluster of blue upholstered benches in a quiet marble-floored hallway outside of a conference room with a table and brown Eames chairs

Executive conference room with brown Eames chairs and bench along window with KC skyline view. Large ring-shaped light above them. Three people talk.

Hallway touch-down space with black/pale wood bar and low back dark wood stools. A woman sits at the bar and a man stands behind it.

Employees interact in conference room with U-shaped table and blue/black chairs. Light wood wall features employee pics. Dual screens mounted on other wall

Woman with top bun sits in blue lounge chair seating area in office corridor with white coffee table. Admin is at one of three desks along hall.

8 people work around very large oblong shaped executive conference table that takes up room. Eames office chairs surround. City skyline in background.

Corridor with a tiled counter with wood stools & 3 black pendant lights. Wall has vertical stripes of multi-colored material. Two women greet eachother

Open office with planters workstations at far end and collaborative area. Woman sits on long L-shaped couch with cafe tables. Long table with grey chairs.

Collab area with bench and cafe seating divided by tall planters at back. Behind are three huddle rooms with brown leather couches and coffee tables

Huddle room with blue/white walls. Woman looks at phone while seated on brown L-shaped leather couch. White lounge chair and coffee table with plant on it.

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Confidential Client, Kansas City, MO

Industry: Confidential

Account Managers: Ryan Elder (Furniture) and Todd Saunders (Flooring)

Sr. Interior Designer: Crystal Kolb

Additional Key Team Members: Steven Scott, Jeff Frederes, Daniel Nolen, Chad Kernodle, Tim McLaws

Architect/Interior Design: HOK Kansas City

Photographer: Alistair Photography

Goal: Our client set out to establish their new headquarters in Kansas City, MO, which not only modernized their office environment but also empowered employees to better serve their customers and members. With the rapidly evolving landscape of their industry, the company needed a facility designed to adapt alongside their business. Their vision was to create a workplace that fostered collaboration, elevated employee satisfaction, prioritized health and wellness, and encouraged consistent engagement and attendance.

This client has been a valued client of John A. Marshall Co. for 20+ years. Over the course of this long-term partnership, we’ve supported their workplace strategies and furnishing needs across multiple sites, adapting to their evolving vision for how employees work best. They entrusted our team again to provide furniture and flooring solutions for their new space.

An older man sits in a plush blue lounge sofa,, one of many that sit along a windowed hallway with various conference rooms on the opposite side.

Workplace with windowed walkways and lounge seating area. Brown leather L-shaped sofa, white coffee table with rope light chandelier. Meeting rooms behind.

Long haired woman in blue shirt/white pants sits in alcove on brown leather sofa and looks out at downtown Kansas City. Blue lounge chair & black end table

Open Lounge seating area on area rug with brown leather L-shaped sofa, white lounge chairs, stacked coffee table, rope light. White wall with blue art.

Scope: Our client's relocation represented more than just a move. It was an opportunity to modernize, consolidate, and create a workplace that will serve the organization and its members for years to come.

• Scale: Six floors of workplace furnishings tailored to a wide range of uses—from collaborative zones to private offices, meeting rooms, dining areas, and flexible spaces.

• Seamless Delivery: Our team partnered closely with our client and HOK, the project’s architect, to align design intent with functional furnishing solutions. Every step of the process—from product selection to installation—was carefully coordinated to ensure quality, timeliness, and operational efficiencies.

• Future-Ready Workplace: The new headquarters provides a modern, engaging environment that supports well-being, technology integration, and collaboration.

We were pleased to collaborate with the full team and utilize our talented team and robust experience to exemplify how purposeful design can dramatically transform a workplace and enhance employee wellbeing.

Employees socialize and relax on an outdoor deck. Outdoor tables, benches, and tables. Blue sky and city views to back and left.

Arial view of rooftop dec, with a variety of outdoor furniture options including 2 large L-shaped couches, square and rectangular tables with chairs

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