It’s always a dream of an interior designer to work with a client who takes risks—someone ready to break from the beige, boucle interiors that are the au courant interior style of the moment. So that’s why Nina Freudenberger, an interior designer who makes regular appearances in Architectural Digest, agreed to do Department M’s offices in West Hollywood. The independent production studio founded by producers of Academy Award-nominated films like Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Martian was eager to transform their new office space into one worthy of a modern creative-minded business: “Normally film companies have posters or one-sheets hung everywhere,” says Michael Schaefer, who co-founded Department M along with Mike Larocca. “We didn’t want that. And we didn’t want to buy office furniture. We wanted to make it seem like a living room.” It was a design directive right up Freudenberger’s alley. Oh—and because Larocca is her husband. The reception area at Department M. “For the reception, it was really about making sure that I was showing how creative this office is,” …