Office standards
The standard weekly operating hours for Studio Dorion's office.
What are 10am-6pm Monday-Friday?
Three types of vendors Studio Dorion interacts with regularly.
What are custom furniture makers, antique and vintage dealers, upholsterers, lighting designers, drapery workrooms, trade showrooms.
An ideal Studio Dorion client has this type of space.
What is a space with unique, existing architecture?
Final approver for all critical design elements.
Team members authorized to communicate with the press about media opportunities.
Who are Peter and Michelle?
The method for booking a conference room.
What is the building's application?
The name of the internal spreadsheet that documents vendor login information.
What is "Accounts."
The main liaison between a client and the Studio Dorion team.
Who is the Principal Designer?
What are drawing sets, architectural documents and construction schedules?
Items to prepare for weekly project meetings.
What are bring a notebook and pen, print out updated plans and elevations, have questions prepared related to what's needed on the project, print relevant deliverables to discuss and prepare current schedule overviews?
Three expectations for use of the office.
What are client visits, designing and executing on projects and sorting / storing fabrics and materials?
Team members who are expected to feel comfortable picking up the phone to call a vendor to ask questions and work through solutions.
Who is any Studio Dorion team member working on a relevant project.
A designer Studio Dorion co-contracts with on some design projects.
Who is Tom Scheerer?
Protocol in the event of an office emergency ie flood.
What is immediately call Peter or Michelle?
Procedure to follow if unable to join team building events.
What is notify Peter and Michelle?
Procedure if a team member won't be in the office during standard operating hours.
What is let Peter or Michelle know ahead of time?
Course of action if a vendor is changing the price or design of an item that's part of an ongoing project.
What is escalate to the Principal Designer on a project?
The items each Studio Dorion team member joining a client meeting should bring.
What are a notebook, pen, measuring tape and camera (phone)?
The minimum $$ threshold for office purchases to need approval by a Principal Designer.
What is $50?
The role of a Design Assistant.
What is support designers on the projects, stay up to date on all aspects of projects, manage critical tasks to be completed to stay on schedule, ensure all internal project documentation is updated consistently, manage project materials, and communicate with vendors?
Amount of time required to make a PTO request.
What is two weeks prior to time requested off?
Course of action Studio Dorion can take if a delay with a vendor comes about.
What is pay an expedited fee?
The proper procedure to follow when a problem cannot be resolved without communicating with the client.
What is pull in the Principal Designer with urgency, and strategically plan on the right communication with them?
Three topics for the start-of-week Monday team meetings.
What are review the schedule of the week, discuss high-level updates on projects, make the team aware of individual appointments, upcoming plans that take a team member out of the office, client meetings, individual priorities / capacity level, deliverables and house-keeping items on projects?
The role that Studio Dorion is actively hiring for.
What is a Junior Design Architect?