Cool Spaces: Karo
Here's one place that is sweeter than old chocolate.

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This week's Cool Space is a feel-good blend of kitsch, open free-form space and nostalgic chocolate.

Welcome to Karo, a branding agency just outside of Calgary's down-town core. The feel and look is not at all what some one would expect of an office. The floors are exposed concrete with a shiny epoxy finish and that is the last holdover from the days when the building functioned as a warehouse. Keith Moe, the company's environments director took on the job of redesigning the new office space.

"We wanted to retain the sense of space," says Moe, "You can see walls don't necessarily go all the way to the ceiling in some areas so we wanted them to be architectural forms or sculptural forms floating in the over-all space."

That's not all that makes Karo, this week's cool space. On flat surfaces, tables, shelves and in nooks and crannies is an eclectic variety of antiques, nostalgic pop-culture tchokes, 50's style furniture, modernist designed posters and in one corner, a candy bar machine. The machine and the contents are both antiques as it still has the original chocolate bars in it selling for the low, low price of 10 cents.

Karo president, Chris Bedford is proud of the space. "It's a living portfolio," says Bedford, "You get a sense of what we're capable of doing and then what we can do for the client."

Watch the video to see for yourself.

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