Commercial design, delivered like a film production.
Formally trained designers, fabricators, and producers. We draw it, we build it in our own shop, and we hand engineers documentation they can work from. Then we finish on the date.
Most firms have one lane. We have never had one.
Most firms have a lane. Ours has been everywhere: futuristic spaceships, caves, castles, main stages, members clubs. We've built spaceships that had to fly by Friday. Your bar will open on time. And underneath it all, we're still what your project needs most: professionals who speak fluent architect, engineer, and subcontractor.
Your budget goes into the room, not into the process.
Here's how we protect your budget: we develop the creative and design in-house, then hand polished, build-ready concepts to licensed architects and structural, electrical, and plumbing engineers for technical drawings. Because we speak their terminology, nothing gets lost in translation and nothing gets billed twice. Your budget goes into the build, not the process.
Services
Our core work.
Members clubs, bars, restaurants, nightclubs, hotels. Stage and festival design taught us how to move people: light, sound, texture, flow, energy. We bring that craft to hospitality, so your space does not just look beautiful. It performs. The nuance of soft lighting. The way a guest feels hosted from the moment they walk in. A set has to survive one perfect take. Your room has to survive every Saturday night. We design for both.
No two clients get the same designer. Our interior design bench is hand-matched to your style, whether ultra-modern, wildly imaginative, or high-end residential, then merged into one structured build campaign.
Proof
The Portal Marin, built and open. The Portal Austin, in construction, opening November. Kama Los Angeles, a custom lighting installation, designed and fabricated in house.
A bench, not a staff list.
We match designers, directors, and fabricators to your project by style and by working temperament. The person building a log cabin is not the person doing art deco. You get the right one, matched by us, managed by us, and you deal with the senior team the entire way. No handoffs.
Built in-house.
- CNC
- Laser cutting
- Welding
- Woodwork
- 3D printing
- Custom engineering
Our own fabrication shop means our designs never get value-engineered by someone else.
Gallery
Fanfare is killing it!
Anwen Baumeister
CEO of The Portal
Have a space or a moment in mind?
Two minutes and a handful of questions. At the end you get a straight answer on how we would approach the project, and a call with our co-founder if you want one.