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After the success of that shop design, Cheap Monday hired Uglycute to outfit their new headquarters inside a massive former brewery building in Stockholm. In the design department, the partners installed pyramid-shaped conference rooms and bookshelves, and painted all the ductwork bright yellow. Stenberg describes the experience of working with fashion brands on interiors and trade fair booths: “It’s interesting for us because we get a brief from the designers about their new collection, and they only get, like, three words to describe it: ‘This line is about dystopia and the movie Idiocracy,'" he explains. "Then you have to work with that. And it’s a challenge because I’m an architect, and that’s a very slow and deliberate process. When you collaborate with these people it’s super fast, and you have to quickly and intuitively create something that captures them.”