From Chaos to Clarity

We believe in creating products that solve problems, and that good design doesn’t announce itself. This exhibition pulls back the curtain on that process, from the tension of a chaotic workspace to the tools that resolve it.

Saturday, April 25th, 2026

1PM - 5PM
Prescott Fountain
2909 NE Prescott St.
Portland, OR

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The Exhibit

Most workspaces aren't designed. They accumulate. This exhibition is our case for doing it differently. Debuting in Portland on April 25, before taking the show on the road, visitors will move through a four-part experience inside a restored historic building in Northeast Portland, tracing the problem of a chaotic home office, the craft decisions made to solve it, and the tools and system that resulted. It's an experience built for anyone drawn to creative process, design thinking, and the question of how a great idea becomes something real.

SEAN KELLY (Lead Designer): If you walked into our studio you'd get a glimpse of what we're working on: the prototypes sitting on the bench, the sketches on the wall. We wanted to design that feeling into an intentional experience to get you thinking about your space and your work.

We started Grovemade in Portland in 2009 with a conviction about how work should feel. Not a business plan. A belief. Since then, we've spent over a decade designing and building tools for the modern home office, guided by the idea that a well-considered space makes better work possible.

We believe that the products living in your space should reflect who you are and how you think. This exhibition marks the first time we've opened that process to the public, from the real problems that inspired our work to the sketches, materials, and decisions that shaped it into the tools and systems we make today.

The exhibition moves through the full arc of our design process, from the customer stories and early sketches that shaped our thinking to the physical prototypes and complete home office system that resulted. To tell that story properly, we designed the installation ourselves. Anchored by large-scale panels, the experience is designed to be walked in order, from problem to solution to impact.

Exhibition highlights include:

Real customer stories: frustrations, needs, and tensions from people navigating the home office.
Sketch models: an inside look at how our ideas take shape before they become products.
Full-scale prototypes: the complete arc from cardboard model to production unit.
Our complete home office system: desk, rolling cart, and wall shelving, shown together for the first time.