Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
“The Oval chair is designed to stand beautifully on its own or in hundreds together. It is slightly wider than usual so you can really feel comfortable in the row of chairs. Oval has an exceptionally efficient stacking- and linking function, important in for example meeting rooms.”
People are becoming more and more mobile in today’s evolving office, moving from individual to collaborative work at a moment’s notice. This new workplace trend requires a high performance seating solution that can intuitively adapt to each user’s body type and movement throughout a space. Solve was uniquely engineered with a responsive design, including a synchronized seat and back that move in harmony with the user to provide continuous and customized comfort. With this high level of ergonomic support, consider the search for a universal task seating solution complete.
Benjamin Ashton designed a pair of functional furniture pieces and then took them for a Memphis spin. Bleached Memphis sees what might look like a console and a desk, but Ashton specifically leaves their use up to you. Playing up the Memphis movement and modernist architecture, the objects playfully display alluring colors and eye-catching cutouts in hopes of adding a bit of happiness to your day.
Chairs are pivotal to the existence of most manmade spaces. Arguably so, architects tend to agree, as they themselves were the first furniture designers of the early 20th century. The call to duty was out of necessity; the market simply didn’t supply enough decent seating to fill the buildings that architects built. Surely enough, the rise of machine production and industrial design as a legitimate profession changed the future of seating forever.
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We’ve quickly become a laptop-centric society, with most users opting for the compact, folding computer than a clunky static screen. With this in mind, the Z Desk was created just for laptop users who want to enjoy the ergonomics and health benefits of a sit/stand design. Internally, the desk is powered by a low-friction gas spring, making the transition from sit to stand positions extremely smooth. Better yet, it’s minimalistic form takes up less space and looks better than other conventional sit/stand designs!
Italian furniture brand Arper launched a brand new modern sofa designed by the legendary Jean-Marie Massaud. The modular system, named Steeve, is customizable with its three components – bench, armchair and sofa, and other related modules. They can be arranged in various interior spaces, including the home and office environments, to produce endless configurations.
The textures, surfaces, and shapes of these products will have you rethinking how you divvy up space for office clients and beyond.
