The art and science of engaging spaces

Innovative Solutions for Office/Tenant Improvement, Healthcare, Hospitality & Retail Design

Fisher Design Company, Inc. is a full-service interior design firm. We partner with our clients to translate your company’s business objectives into creative environments that engage customers, build loyalty, and create profitable growth. We apply the art and science of people’s behavior to create spaces. We unite creative and technical solutions to produce innovative, safe environments that enhance everyday life. We see the potential of a project. Our experience brings that vision to life.

“Since 2006, we have worked with Karen on many projects. She continually manages to address and integrate the concerns of everyone involved in a project from finance and operations to engineering. Our meetings often involve a lot of people and opinions and yet Karen never loses focus. We leave feeling relaxed and productive, certain that we are in good hands. Thanks to Fisher Design Company, our renovated public and private spaces reflect our commitment to our patients and staff.”
— Shahram F. Ravan, M.D., former Chairman of the Board, Olympia Medical Center

“Karen Fisher and her team are creative, spontaneous thinkers. They tackled a multitude of raw ideas and seamlessly wove them into a concrete concept, branding and defining the “Super Center” club. Consistent attention to detail with a good-natured and flexible approach, are a given. Their solutions have more than satisfied ownership, staff and especially club members. Karen’s direction of her team, our meetings and her unparalleled ability to communicate with all levels of personnel, resulted in a smooth and successful result every time.”
— Jeh Meher, President, USA Fitness Center

“Karen Fisher offers an exceptional level of professionalism in her field. Our relationship with Fisher Design Company began with our gallery in Los Angeles and later expanded to our Las Vegas location. In both galleries, Karen was able to keep the emphasis on our business and what we are selling – art. She had the ability to comprehend and interface with the entire team: tenant, broker, landlord, contractor, subcontractor, and was always available to review details and resolve concerns. Her knowledge of the process resulted in a smooth construction phase and a result that was as pleasing to us as it was to our landlords. That is good for all!”
— Kevin Barry, Founder/Owner of Kevin Barry Art Advisory

“Fisher Design Company, Inc. is professional, providing resourceful problem-solving skills across a wide range of challenges. Karen Fisher is professional, polite and insightful. She listens and responds with commitment to her words. We did a lot of work with Karen, from highly public food and beverage facilities to more private spa and locker spaces. The process was satisfying and the results a great success.”
— Andrew Scott, former General Manager of Manhattan Country Club

“It is a pleasure to work with Karen. She is positive and constructive, meeting the challenges of each project with a sense of humor. It was apparent that she was committed to our satisfaction from design to completion. Her attention to detail is extraordinary, including the budget and our deadlines.”
— Edith Stafford, Director of Accounts Payable and Administrative Services of Securitas Security Services USA, Inc.

“Over the last 15 years, Fisher Design Company assisted On Assignment, Inc. with all aspects of our space planning and interior design needs. Every project demonstrated Karen’s creativity and wherewithal to anticipate our design needs swiftly and efficiently. This gave us a lot of confidence in the outcome while we focused on our business.”
— Michael Payne, SVP &CIO at ASGN, Incorporated

“I engaged Fisher Design Company to help plan a design that reinforced our brand for our first restaurant. We could tell within five minutes that Karen understood our objectives. This endeavor was speculative. We had a very limited budget with big goals. Karen took what had been a successful bakery concept and turned it into a strong, well branded cafe. She is no-nonsense, flexible and easy to work with. She exceeded our ideals and then some. We definitely got our bang for the buck.”
— John Chamberlain, former Founder/Owner of Cafe Aficionado

“We started our office with a space that was basically an empty box. Fisher Design Company presented us with a variety of planning and design approaches that helped us define how we needed to function and how we wanted our patients to feel when they visited us. Karen’s attention to every detail was flawless: from the coordination of contractors and vendors to design features: color accents on the wall, dropped ceiling soffits, tile patterns, and artwork, right down to the style of wastebaskets...everything fit together perfectly.”
— Marc A. Edelstein, M.D., FACP, FACG, Founder Beverly Hills Gastroenterology

“In our first meeting, I realized that Karen had a dedication to getting things right versus just getting them done – with the taste, conceptual ability, and knowledge of what was available and the ability to explain why she was making certain choices. To me, that translated into letting go and trusting her, knowing that she would make good decisions and involve me when something required my attention. I believed in her judgment and her professional expertise. She was right in every decision she made.”
— Sheldon Kasower, former Chairman of CreditReport.com

“From the presentation of the first space plan, it was apparent that Karen was inside our heads, knew what we were thinking, what we needed, who we were. From then on, we have completely trusted her with all our Commercial and Residential projects.”
— Jeff Pink, President & CEO of Orly International

“I have known Karen since she was my student at Art Center. She was always able to uniquely grasp all sides of a project. I hired her right out of school and she naturally assumed a high level of responsibility, skillfully programming, planning, designing and managing. I’ve hired her to plan and design projects for tenants in our buildings. I’ve hired her to manage project teams, ensuring full design, construction and financial accountability. Nothing falls through the cracks with Karen. She has never let me down.”
— Milton I. Swimmer, President of Swimmer Development, LLC
former Senior Partner, JH Snyder Company
former Founder & President, Swimmer Cole Martinez Curtis

“I have worked with Karen Fisher on two major projects and have found her to be consistently helpful, dependable, extremely thorough and highly focused. She invariably manages to find unique and creative solutions to difficult problems. Most importantly, her firm has always been sensitive to our financial and time constraints.”
— Marvin Retsky, M.D., former Partner of Physicians Pathology Services, Inc. / Property Owner

See Our Work

Office/Tenant Improvement

A business tool, the office environment must reflect and reinforce a business’s core values. It is imperative that the placement of people and functions within the workplace reflects the business’s culture, brand, and beliefs. Be it an office layout for openness, transparency and collaboration, or for privacy, quietness and concentration, we create spaces and provide inventive solutions that supports your growth, capital investment and values.

Healthcare

Healthcare environments are unique in that they must align the facility investment with business strategies and goals. It is crucial to understand the broad economic pressures, regulatory requirements, and day-to-day operational challenges to create successful design for this specialty market. We understand the core issues that concern our clients, and we meet them by combining innovative design with high quality, efficient, and cost-effective solutions. We improve lives and create sustainable healing environments.

Hospitality & Restaurants

Be it a restaurant, fitness center, country club, or similar venue, the most important role to shape the establishment’s ambience in hospitality design is the “experience.” Creating an environment that supports the facility’s function and providing a balance between atmosphere, privacy and service determines whether or not the space works. We partner with our clients to define the target market, focal point and atmosphere that will make the property highly unique, memorable and profitable.

Retail

Retail design requires solutions that attract and maintain the consumer’s focus. People are highly visual as the eyes provide the majority of the brain’s sensory information. To initiate and keep the customer’s attention, we need to show them something visually pleasing and stimulating. In the retail environment, the key elements to a successful design are how the product is displayed, creating an immersive experience, designing a pattern of movement through the space, and making a lasting impression. We strive to build experiences that set your retail establishment apart from your competitors.