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When the basket - focused decor arrangement The Longaberger Company demanded that its Ohio main office look like a monolithic woven picnic basket , it probably was n’t plan on travel . But as the society has consolidated its operations and move workers to a mill elsewhere , it ’s credibly regretting letting its previous founder Dave Longaberger have so much tilt in the office pattern process . The alone construction , located 40 mi outside Columbus , has raise passing hard to betray , even at a price reduction , Bloombergreports ( as spotted byGizmodo ) .
Built in 1997 , the building initially went on the market last yr for $ 7.5 million , but it turns out , not that many companies want a 180,000 - square - invertebrate foot , seven - story building that looks like it ’s ready for a lakeshore outing . But that was exactly what Longaberger , then serving as CEO , wanted it to look like .
When Longaberger was in talk with the graphic designer he hired from NBBJ — an computer architecture firm that has proven itself plenty willing and able to designinnovativeoffice construction elsewhere — he picked up one of the company ’s basketful , fit in to anews reportfrom the time , and demanded : “ This is what I want . Build it . ” The architect compel .
The offices are now list at $ 5 million , about half the square - foot - price of place buildings in the domain , according to Bloomberg . It ca n’t be stripped of its quirky style , since it ’s narrow at the bottom than the top , just like your favourite woven carrying casing . Hopefully someone with $ 5 million to spare is look to produce a basket museum in remote Newark , Ohio — even if it is n’t thebest picnic spotin the state .
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