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 Hybrid Chair can be a desk chair, dining chair and a lounge chair, depending on the height you want. The chair is an ideal mix for people that live in small spaces and don’t want multiple chairs. Its easily adjustable, you just unlock the textile band, and you can slide the chair to the desired height.
Pennsylvania-based chair company EMECO is recognized for their chair designs that incorporate post-industrial and consumer waste materials within its fabrication. Founded in 1944, their lightweight, non-corrosive, fire resistant and torpedo proof chairs were made originally for the US Navy. The utilization of sustainable and innovative techniques allow the pieces to last at least a hundred and fifty years. For the occasion of 2016 salone del mobile, Emeco has launched their ‘Run Collection’, designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of industrial facility.
Feiz Design Studio combines color and simplicity to form the ‘niloo’ chair for Dutch furniture brand artifort. A contemporary reinterpretation of the two-part african chair, ‘niloo’ slides and interlocks to form a seat both comfortable and structurally sound. Feiz and team, who have worked with artifort previously, looked to company’s history to find an innovative way forward. Drawing from the congo and pinguïn by Theo Ruth, ‘niloo’ offers a modern aesthetic while staying true to seamless two-part composition.
Poltrona Frau Group and Haworth announced Monday that it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of the majority share of the American group JANUS et Cie, leader in the premium contemporary outdoor and interior furniture sector.
As the office continues to evolve so too do the materials used within it. While many corporate headquarters make liberal use of brushed steel, aluminium and glass, an ancient, well loved and sustainable material is becoming increasingly popular all over again. Wood never went away, of course, but the latest ideas about office design seem to have given it a new lease of life as a material. In part this is down to an inherent love for wood, but it is also acknowledges the aesthetic and functional crossover between the office and other places where we work such as cafes, hotels and homes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the new generation of commercial office furniture designs. In many ways they hark back to the 1950s when the British were introduced to modernism in no uncertain terms. This design movement led the British to reject dark woods and embrace new forms and materials including lighter, arguably more natural woods.
In 1976, the iconoclastic British architect Cedric Price created a proposal for a performance space that could rearrange itself into infinite reconfigurations. The project, called Generator, relied on a computer program to move a system of cube-like elements along tracks on a grid, creating and recreating temporary spaces that could be used for rehearsals, performances, and housing. Proposed to the Gillman Corporation, the project was thought to be too complex, and it was never built.
Milan 2016: Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created a system of smart modular seats that can be adjusted with an app or hand gestures into different configurations (+ movie). Carlo Ratti Associati's Lift-Bit furniture system, which the studio claims is the world's first Internet-of-Things sofa, is part of a range of new interactive products for Swiss furniture brand Vitra.
ESI introduces the newest solution to free up your desktop space with the Teck-Dock – a lap top storage accessory designed to clean up your worksurface and gain back up to 25% of your workstation.
The Gesture chair (http://www.steelcase.com/products/off...) supports healthy postures in users interacting with today's technologies.
I’m sitting inside Apple’s Alves Caffè Macs in Cupertino, a cathedral of glass that serves as a private cafeteria and informal meeting area for Apple employees. Despite the open view from the outside, you can’t get in unless you’re an employee or an invited guest. Fortunately, Design Milk was offered an invitation, and I’ve been whisked through the cavernous dining hall to gawk at the precisely fitted sheets of stone, metal, and wood representative of the Apple aesthetic. The scale of the space is startling upon entry, accentuated by a nearly empty interior at this particular hour, alongside the tasteful restraint of the furnishings within (I approvingly note the selection of Naoto Fukasawa-designed armchairs strewn throughout).
QuickStand Lite™, a new sit/stand solution from ergonomic pioneer Humanscale, was announced as a winner of the acclaimed Red Dot ‘Best of the Best’ Award for top quality and groundbreaking design in the Product category.
David Eberlein is a Coalesse product engineer who helped bring the Potrero415 Table to market. We asked David to share some insights into what makes this new product, now available for order in North America, unique.
If sitting is the new smoking, is a standing desk the equivalent of giving up smoking? Maybe. Or maybe not. At the moment, we don't have strong evidence to say standing for longer produces health benefits, never mind the standing desk craze.
Herman Miller has once again worked with designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin to create a versatile product with universal appeal. Following on the success of their Wireframe Sofa and the Locale system, their latest collaboration is the elegant Ode Lamp, occasional lighting perfect for almost any setting. With soft curves and a poetic grace, the Ode Lamp’s ring of anti-glare LEDs and spun steel shade creates diffused illumination, drawing people together in a welcoming pool of light.
Baillie Davis is an industrial designer in the Coalesse Design Group. She was part of the team that designed Potrero415 Tables, which will soon be available to order. In this question and answer post, she shares a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of this exciting addition to the workplace.
A group of American designers and marketers, have recently worked together to create The Edge Desk System, an all-in-one desk that can fold flat, and be easily transported.
LifeSpan, the active lifestyle brand which popularized treadmill desks and bike desks in the workplace, is announcing its new line of treadmill desks.
Whether you’re gathered to work with a group, play a game, or eat a meal, the Clark Table has you covered and then some. Designed by Matt Gagnon Studio, the communal table has a rounded triangular shape, which gives everyone ample space to do what they need to do, while also letting conversations happen easily.
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Despite the growing virtual nature of work, finding the right environment to get said work done can make all the difference. Companies continue re-defining the office space for maximum creativity—but sometimes all it takes is the right desk.
Opendesk Express offers customers in London hand-built, digitally cut furniture that is delivered in 14 days. The pieces ship for free and range from single-seating desks to group desks. The current collection even includes a two-seater desk with an adjustable height so that customers can use it as a standing desk.
Swedish furniture firm ROL USA, Inc. plans to build a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Holland Township, Michigan, a $19.8 million investment expected to create 51 new jobs in the next two years.
