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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
Source: CFN News Desk
Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
Source: CFN News Desk
Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

Office Furniture

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Architectural Walls in Healthcare: Meeting the Needs of Patients, Families and Staff

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Architectural Walls in Healthcare: Meeting the Needs of Patients, Families and Staff

Healthcare environments encompass a variety of architectural spaces – from academic medical centers and community hospitals to ambulatory care centers, medical office buildings and veterans hospitals. When it comes to defining space in these different environments, movable walls provide an ideal solution.

In every facility, change is constant. It’s fueled on many fronts; change results from technology adoption, trends in worker productivity and efficiency, and the need to continually evolve to meet the needs of healthcare patients.

Read the blog on blog.ki.com >

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Revolutionary: Studio-Tag Is a One-Stop Shop for Commercial Interiors

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Revolutionary: Studio-Tag Is a One-Stop Shop for Commercial Interiors

When Studio-Tag opened in the Plant Building near New York City’s Times Square in April, it introduced a concept for commercial interiors as revolutionary as the tunes that John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix once recorded there. Studio-Tag is a one-stop shop for contract and hospitality interiors — with glass, lighting, flooring, textiles and furniture all in one place. Before it debuted, those products were scattered across Manhattan, and they were hardly curated. Studio-Tag changed all that inside its new 6,200-square-foot studio and gallery.

Read the article on architizer.com >

A Seating Collection Inspired by the Boomerang

A Seating Collection Inspired by the Boomerang

Cardeoli designed a pair of seats for Missana that were inspired by an object of the same name – the boomerang. The Boomerang Collection, which includes a bench and a chair, not only shares the same name, it features its curved shape. With a minimalist aesthetic, the seats have architectural silhouettes that give a sculptural feel that could work in any environment. 

Read the article on design-milk.com >

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Iconic furniture designer embraces 3D printing

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Iconic furniture designer embraces 3D printing

Herman Miller, the iconic furniture design company behind the Eames and Aeron office chairs, has turned to 3D printing to slash development time. The American company behind the legendary Aeron chair that has a place in the Museum of Modern Art and the Eames that has been copied around the world, is a natural partner for the likes of Stratasys. It is a design-led company that needs to create endless prototypes to refine its concepts into the perfect finished product.

Read the article on 3dprintingindustry.com >

Wanted: A Simple Way To Make Your Open Plan Office Suck Less

Wanted: A Simple Way To Make Your Open Plan Office Suck Less

Open offices are terrible. The acoustics are nerve-racking, they stress out workers, and they destroy any semblance of privacy. The good news, though, is that there are some great aftermarket solutions employers and employees with open office plans can use to make open offices suck less.One of the simplest? A pillowy, illuminated desk partition, new from Dutch brand De Vorm.

Read the article on fastcodesign.com >

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VIDEO: Rockwell Unscripted for Knoll

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VIDEO: Rockwell Unscripted for Knoll

When Knoll was looking for a design partner to collaborate on a collection of furniture that suited modern work styles and environments "there was only one person to call, and that was David Rockwell," says Benjamin Pardo, Knoll's Creative Director. Two very different sensibilities that may at first not seem like the most obvious partnership leverage the design firm's expertise in theater, play, co-working and hospitality with the furniture company's impeccable craftsmanship and creative freedom. The result is Rockwell Unscripted, a collection that fits in between the more traditional working and meeting spaces in most offices. It's a surprisingly successful, improvisational and flexible collection of seating, borders, storage, tables, steps and accessories. David Rockwell, who had won the company's first Tony award for set design the same week as the Rockwell Unscripted Collection for Knoll launched, shares his thoughts about the collaboration.

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A WORKSPACE DIVIDER THAT DOUBLES AS A LAMP

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A WORKSPACE DIVIDER THAT DOUBLES AS A LAMP

While open offices are wonderful for collaborating with co-workers, sometimes you need a little bit of separation to get your work done. Ivan Kasner and Uli Budde took the partition idea and improved upon it for De Vorm by incorporating lighting into it. The AK 2 – Workspace Divider Lamp is made to hang above desks, reading tables, or shared workspaces as a way to add privacy, provide sound dampening, and to light the area.

Read the about this product on design-milk.com >

SitOnIt Seating Introduces Award-Winning Novo

SitOnIt Seating Introduces Award-Winning Novo

Customization on Novo goes beyond the basics - it changes the game. The level of personalization from frame sizes, frame colors, accent colors, features and textiles is groundbreaking. So groundbreaking in fact, Novo has received Contract Magazine's "Best of NeoCon" Gold Award in the Seating: Ergonomic Desk/Task category, and, is BUILDINGS Magazine's 2016 Product Innovations Editor's Choice winner.

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Eames Coffee Table

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Eames Coffee Table

The re-edition of the 1949 Eames Coffee Table, which was developed by Vitra in cooperation with the Eames Office, evokes the spirit of the early one-off pieces: fabricated in exquisite materials, this high-quality coffee table is both precious object and utilitarian furnishing. The square or rectangular table tops are made of palisander veneer, marble or solid American walnut. The base, combining black wooden legs with metal cross-struts, provides a stable understructure and emphasises the understated elegance of the Eames Coffee Table.

Will become available in August 2016.

Read more about this on vitra.com >

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CUSTOMIZATION CREATES PERSONAL CONNECTION TO THE WORKPLACE

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CUSTOMIZATION CREATES PERSONAL CONNECTION TO THE WORKPLACE

As the ongoing debate on the merits or pitfalls of the open office has shown, there’s no “one size fits all” solution for workplace design. Leading companies know that customized solutions support the unique needs and tasks of their employees and feature inspiring details that help build company culture.

Read the blog on coalesse.com >

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It's a new world: Herman Miller Begins Direct Selling on Amazon

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It's a new world: Herman Miller Begins Direct Selling on Amazon

With DWR results "not only disappointing, it's just not acceptable and we can't be there for long," Herman Miller yesterday began selling task chairs directly on Amazon, terming  it "a great marketing step." Previously certain task seating models were available from other resellers, but as of today, Herman Miller is an official Amazon seller.

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BIGGEST WINNER: TEKNION WINS BEST OF COMPETITION, FOUR GOLD AWARDS AND SILVER AT NEOCON 2016

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BIGGEST WINNER: TEKNION WINS BEST OF COMPETITION, FOUR GOLD AWARDS AND SILVER AT NEOCON 2016

Teknion Corporation Thursday announced that it won six prestigious awards at NeoCon. Zones, a comprehensive series of furniture that transforms the office, earned three awards including the show’s top honor – Best of Competition. The Zones Collection received a Gold Best of NeoCon in the Furniture Collections for Collaboration category. Zones benches won a Gold Best of NeoCon in the Seating: Benches category, and Zones tables earned Silver in the Conference Room Furniture category.

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David Rockwell Presents Rockwell Unscripted at NeoCon 2016 Keynote

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David Rockwell Presents Rockwell Unscripted at NeoCon 2016 Keynote

David Rockwell, founder and president of Rockwell Group, presented the NeoCon 2016 Keynote on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Chicago. Two days after receiving a Tony Award for his scenic designs for She Loves Me, Rockwell unveiled a workplace collection with Knoll rooted in the cornerstones of Rockwell Group's practice: hospitality, user-choreographed experience, and, of course, theater.

Read the article on knoll.com >

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Herman Miller Launches Plex Modular Lounge Seating by Industrial Facility

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Herman Miller Launches Plex Modular Lounge Seating by Industrial Facility

London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn "a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre". Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility created Plex using six elements that can be combined to form armchairs, sofas, ottomans and benches.

Read the article on dezeen.com >

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