Perennials and Sutherland is a luxury furniture and textiles company with flagship showrooms in major U.S. cities including Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, and at trade events such as HD Expo. My role focused on translating existing architectural information and rapidly evolving showroom layouts into precise, usable construction-level floor plans for internal teams and clients.
I began with existing Revit floor plans containing prior showroom installations and rebuilt them in Rhino, establishing a clean and flexible drafting workflow. Using the company’s 2D CAD furniture files as a base library, I constructed accurate scaled representations of each piece and assembled them into updated showroom layouts.
From there, I worked from site photographs and hand sketches provided by my supervisor to reverse-engineer and document newly staged spaces. The final drawings captured not only furniture placement, but circulation zones, feature walls (such as chair walls and rug ladders), sales desk positioning, and display hierarchy — ensuring that employees could set up installations precisely and that clients had a clear spatial understanding of the showroom environment.
Each plan was delivered with full furniture indexing and tagging systems, as seen in the Chicago showroom documentation and the Washington DC layout. Larger exhibition installations such as HD Expo required compressed spatial planning and clarity of object hierarchy, while the New York showroom demanded careful coordination across multiple display zones within an irregular floor plate
Beyond drafting, this role required developing independent workflows to increase efficiency and minimize cross-communication. I created personal systems for:
- Standardizing furniture scaling and block organization
- Layer management and annotation hierarchy
- Rapid comparison between photographic reference and CAD geometry
- Maintaining consistency across multiple city showrooms
By refining these processes, I was able to independently interpret spatial intent, reduce revision cycles, and deliver precise documentation under time-sensitive exhibition deadlines.
