A Tour of Tracee Ellis Ross’s Effortlessly Cool Office in West Hollywood

To borrow a phrase from the classic millennial film Mean Girls, Tracee Ellis Ross isn’t like a regular boss. She’s a cool boss.

So when designing the West Hollywood offices for Pattern Beauty, her natural hair care brand, she wasn’t just going to throw a bunch of drab cubicles under fluorescent lighting and call it a workday. (She’s an actor too, after all. And actors know lighting means everything.)

“That fluorescent buzz?” she says, making a disapproving face, as we stroll around…