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.
Since it opened up shop in July, Opendesk has been busy making open-sourced furniture whose designs can be downloaded, tweaked and then produced locally, anywhere in the world. Last month, they kitted out the entire offices for the self-built computer brand Kano. Now they're turning their attention to developing a range of smart products that integrates technology into their furniture—starting with the humble wooden desk.
In one way at least, the future of office design most closely resembles its past. For over a century, designers, carpenters, engineers, graphic designers and at least one sculptor, based in factories and studios in and around the otherwise perfectly unremarkable city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have devised, produced and exported the environment in which many of us spend our daily lives. First they proselytised in Chicago, then throughout the US, before heading overseas. So successfully have they done this that in 2014, the three Michigan office furniture giants, Haworth, Herman Miller and Steelcase, had combined sales of almost $6.7bn in 26 countries.
Mexican-based design consultancy nos creates and develops projects that focus on their social impact. Their business model is all about creating alliances with key partners, maintaining them flexible and updated. on this occasion, they present us with two pieces of furniture that share characteristics such as modularity and easy assemblage. The ‘tessella desk’ was designed for open and collaborative spaces. its shape merges two hexagons that generate a four-way modular array that allows the user to create random accommodations. All parts are produced from three sheets of 15mm MDF, taking the maximum advantage of the material. no screws are needed for assembly, making it ideal for transportation and manipulation.
BuzziSpace expands BuzziLand, its collection of high-performance hanging acoustic ceiling panels, with the introduction of BuzziLand Virgule. Like its counterparts, BuzziLand Virgile is designed to bring everyday comfort to the workspace. Ideal for large, open office spaces, it attenuates and absorbs sound.
Minima Design Studio designed the ASSI Tables with a split down the center that visually breaks up the typically plain surface. The channel holds specially designed accessories that can store things in place while you’re enjoying a meal, preventing them from falling off the table.
American designer Marc Thorpe reveals which vegetable influenced his Husk chair for Moroso in our next exclusive movie for the Italian furniture brand.
The last chair designed by late Danish cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen has been put back into production by furniture company Carl Hansen & Søn. The 1952 Signature Chair features a single curved piece that forms the seat and back. The furniture's sinuous forms are echoed in a gently bent wooden framework with tapering U-shaped legs. The top of the chair folds in slightly to create winged sections around the sitter.
New technology continues to change our office workspaces. If this trend continues, here's where we may be headed. I recently received an infographic from WeAreTop10.com showing how work desks have evolved over the past 40 years. The graphic (reproduced in full here) also predicted how desks might evolve over in the near future. It occurred to me that the infographic doesn't really go far enough in either direction (past and future). By adding more background and projecting current trends into the future, we can see what our workplace will look like in the next century.
As much as people love their task chair, today’s workers are spending less time at their desks and more time collaborating and working throughout a space. This requires seating platforms to support a wider variety of body types and environments. With a mesh back for comfort, an advanced seat cushion design, and a stool option for standing-height worksurfaces, Quotient is much more than the sum of its parts.
I'm sitting in a private work pod right now. The day is a bit dreary here in Minnesota but I have a task lamp pointed toward my keyboard. It's helping my disposition a bit. I have my feet propped up on a small blue ottoman and I'm listening to the new album by Grimes. There's a thin plastic shield surrounding me that looks exactly like something out of Star Trek. The pod is called the Steelcase Brody, and it's a wonder of workplace engineering.
Silea Open Office delivers a private office experience to individuals in the open plan. With its substantial presence, high-end fit and finish, and the warmth of its materials, the collection offers a level of sophistication unlike anything else in this category. Its wide range of configurations includes options that maximize individual privacy and storage as well as those designed to facilitate collaboration.
The standing desk has established itself as a must-have in hip offices worldwide, but until now, they’ve remained relatively simple. ‘table air’ breathes some fresh air into the sit-to-stand situation. the workspace has an integrated distance sensing module (i.e. smart button) that raises or lowers to meet the user’s hand when held over the surface.
Introducing Essentia, the newest and most exciting member of Workrite’s height-adjustable workcenter portfolio. Featuring our exclusive European manufactured industrial design, an inductive touch control switch with 6 memory presets, and adjustable stretchers that provide greater flexibility for work space design, Essentia is truly in a league of its own.
How intimidating would it be to your new clients if you showed up with your laptop in one hand, and in the other, your own darn desk stowed away in a case.
Centipede is a modular bench like furniture which enables various endless interior arrangements. The idea of this design has also sociological aspect which refers to public space.
"It looks," I thought when I first saw the Altwork Station, "like a dentist's chair." That might not be your first inclination when shopping for new office furniture, but the team behind the unusual, zero-gravity workstation believe they have what it takes the coax you away from your standing desk or your exercise ball chair.
B&B Italia Outdoor has launched two new seating systems, designed by Patricia Urquiola, for 2015. Fat-Sofa Outdoor and Butterfly aim to bring Urquiola’s modern aesthetic to comfortable furniture you can kick back on in your outdoor space.
Form and Function meet in this distinct, artful structure. Artifakt Beam can be admired for it’s beauty and appreciated for it’s ability to be used in multiple spaces. The distinctive star base adds elements of elegance to any waiting room, lounge or lobby. The seating options can be specified as all poly, fully upholstered or poly with a seat pad—allowing customers much versatility within the product offering.
Gunlocke’s new Avoca™ swivel/guest chair effortlessly blends into any workspace, from executive offices and boardrooms to huddle and touchdown spaces.
National Office Furniture, a unit of Kimball International, Inc., continues to introduce new and innovative products to the contract office furniture market that meet the needs of today’s changing workplaces.
