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.
NeoCon is upon us! In advance of the show, we’ll be featuring some of our favorite new products. Get to know Davis’s ergonomic Linq chair, and stay tuned for more product coverage in the coming weeks. Read the article on workdesign.com >
"The acquisition of Focal Upright allows Safco to further expand our product and knowledge base around the growing trend of Active Working,” said Paul Griffiths, Safco General Manager. "Bringing Focal Upright’s products into our line will build on Safco’s 50-year history of product innovation.”
John from the HON University team highlights the three top selling features of HON's Volt seating line.
You know what they say? A man is judged by the type of lamp he has on his desk. It’s a very popular saying. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth tests out the Wasserstein’s Qi Charging Lamp. It’s compatible with a variety of wireless charging Android phones and retails for sixty dollars.
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Embarc Studio focused on using abstracted natural elements, an open floor plan and engaging materials.
While some of the fixed-height ones are handsome, the problem with them is obvious: We're all different heights and require eyelines at different levels. The issue with the adjustable-height models is the inelegance/fiddliness of their mechanisms. Industrial designer Matt Cramsie set a tall order for himself: To design a good-looking, portable, height-adjustable laptop stand with good UX, i.e. an elegant adjustment mechanism. Together with business partner Anhtai Anhtuan he developed the Tiny Tower, which was a year and a half in the making.
Going to the doctor is one of the most personal and vulnerable experiences we have. Patients want to connect with their doctors and develop a relationship of mutual trust and understanding. At the same time, doctors desire to be consultative, expert guides. These are relationships that require trust, understanding and education, qualities that take time to build and strengthen.
Office furniture sales within verticals other than the hospitality vertical increased 13% compared to the prior year third quarter.
Falling table-tennis sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley, where the right to play on the job is sacrosanct.
Haworth is giving "furniture interested people" a sneak-peek at their newest task chair Fern. At first blush, Fern appears to be a competitive response to the "movement" chairs that have hit the market in the past few years, such as Steelcase's Gesture chair.
Kimball Office announced today its strategic investment in ShareDesk, a global leader in agile workplace technology and on-demand workspaces. “Our exclusive furniture partnership with ShareDesk is a critical element of our smart workplace strategy”, states Wendy Murray, Director of Marketing for Kimball Office. She added, “Our collaboration with ShareDesk ensures that Kimball Office will be at the forefront of the workplace transformation, which is being fueled by the rapid advancement in technology”.
HON’s Coordinate Standing Height Bases have turned the corner! Along with the existing 2-leg/3-stage model, you can now select a 3-leg/3-stage model that can be used in L-shaped configurations. Supporting the increasing popularity of sit-to-stand workstations, Coordinate Height Adjustable Bases deliver a healthier style of working by allowing a seamless transition between sitting and standing throughout the day.
Knoll, Inc., a constellation of design-driven brands and people, will introduce new products by Rockwell Group and Box Clever at NeoCon 2016, the contract industry trade show that will take place in Chicago from June 13 – 15.
Dutch design studio PolyLester has created a collection of furniture on wheels that is used to transform an industrial hangar into a venue for exhibitions, workshops, dinners or parties Amsterdam-based PolyLester designed various mobile elements to furnish the old hangar, which was first built to house military engineering facilities at one of the 42 forts along the Dutch capital's historic defence line
Humanscale, a company long-dedicated to incorporating sustainable practices in their manufacturing processes, will be committing to the International Living Future Institute’s Living Product Challenge with their Float sit/stand desk and Diffrient Smart task chair in 2016. The only contract furniture brand to participate in the challenge, this represents a significant undertaking on behalf of the manufacturer and signals a message to the industry that a net positive impact is not only an important and achievable aim for the brand, but something the industry as a whole should be working towards.
Workplaces communicate with people. Not to worry. Big Brother isn’t implanting Siri into your office furniture. But the office environment you’ve designed sends a message to the people that work for you.
“Workplaces where employees are engaged communicate to the people who work there — and anyone else in them — that their employer values them and the contribution that they make.” writes Sally Augustin, Ph.D. in the Harvard Business Review. “The psychological lift that comes from feeling respected enhances engagement.” Augustin is a practicing environmental psychologist and principal at Design With Science.
As any smartphone user could attest, the things we own sometimes end up owning us. Equally, the things we create can end up owning us. The most famous item designed by Charles Eames is a moulded plywood, leather upholstered lounge chair and matching ottoman that are timelessly iconic, have spawned thousands of rip-off versions, invariably feature in any anthology of classic Twentieth Century design and are now part of a permanent exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Yet Eames himself never intended it to go into production in the first place and didn’t even view it as his best product. In an interview in Time magazine he reveals that it was originally designed as a gift for a friend. ‘I made it as a present for Billy Wilder,’ he said. ‘Billy had made a picture in East Germany and found a Marcel Breuer chair and brought it back to me and this was a return present.’
Watch this great interactive tour of B&B's showroom in Milan, filled with both contract and residential furniture.
Sit-to-stand worksurfaces are popular; spending money is not. When budgets are tight, some companies create protocols to determine which employees receive a dedicated height-adjustable worksurface. In the interest of providing a benchmark, I would like to outline the strategies that I have seen, and provide an ergonomist's perspective.
