“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing,” George Bernard Shaw once said. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin, too. In fact, any number of people have expressed the same sentiment over generations.
Lately, it’s an idea that some companies have taken to the extreme. In the world of contemporary office design – or, at least at those companies embracing technology, innovation and creativity, such as start-ups, tech and advertising companies, this maxim appears to be laid down in corporate culture and expressed through wacky interiors featuring zany furniture. But is there any merit to it?