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.
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.
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.
Gensler founded the practice in 1965 and has worked on several remarkable projects along with running one of the most successful architecture firms for the past 65 years.
Case joins Ware Malcomb with 24 years of in-depth experience in project, design and personnel management, and business development.
Vico Magistretti would have turned 100 on October 6: Reason enough for the global design community to celebrate.
Linda Williams has been appointed to Steelcase’s Board of Directors. Williams currently serves as the Chief Audit Executive and Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a global provider of technology solutions and services spanning edge to cloud.
An entrepreneur of mercurial moods and missionary zeal, he created an empire to market his designs and later opened restaurants in London, Paris and New York.
Cini Boeri, the Italian architect and industrial designer who designed several showrooms and furniture collections for Knoll, died on September 9, 2020 at her home in Milan. She was 96 years old.
Ford Motor CEO and President, and former Steelcase CEO, Jim Hackett will unexpectedly retire. University of Michigan fans applaud.
Cohen is a biking enthusiast and father to two young entrepreneurs. Though he has loved the extra time with his wife that not commuting into Los Angeles has brought him, he said he is ready to get back to the office, because that’s where the magic happens.
What can you say? Jim Hackett is widely credited with being the most forward-looking thinker Steelcase had ever had, with the possible exception of one of the founders who actually thought up the metal wastebasket.
The Snoop and Woopy chair design for Italian furniture brand B-Line is one of Rashid's best-known works
New York designer Karim Rashid has won this year's American Prize for Design, which is regarded as "the highest and most prestigious design award in the United States".
The New York designer was named the 2020 laureate of the accolade awarded annually by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Rashid, whose best-known works include the Snoop and Woopy chair and the Bobble water flask, describes himself as a "design pervert, cultural shaper, poet of plastic, digipop rockstar".
"Design is my lifelong hobby," Rashid said. "Design is something that can be so emotional, so experiential, so romantic, so poetic, and so human and yet constantly moves us forward."
He intends to champions "democratic design", a term he uses to describe making good design available for all, through projects focused on unnoticed or overlooked items.
Pans with colourful handles, a faceted glass bottle for American vodka brand Anestasia, a "deconstructed" wine bottle and a smartphone charger are among his creations.
"We must evolve, we must innovate, and we must change," the designer added. "I want to change the physical world."
In addition to 3,000 objects, Rashid's portfolio also includes fashion, exhibitions, interiors and architecture projects, completing a sex shop in Munich, the University of Naples subway station and a restaurant in Dubai.
The Chicago Athenaeum's president Christian Narkiewicz-Laine commended Rashid for his "dizzying array of projects going all over the globe". "What stands out is that the man is driven. Scratch that. Hyper-driven," Narkiewicz-Laine added.
"Entering the mad design world of Rashid is like being trapped inside a gigantic, rotating kaleidoscope, where the turning and twisting of bits of coloured materials between two flat plates against two plane mirrors produce an endless variety of crazed patterns and dizzying possibilities," he said.
Alfredo Häberli is one of the internationally established designers: the works created in his studio in Zurich for pioneering companies such as Vitra, Kvadrat or Moroso are energetic and expressive.
“He was an extraordinary craftsman and a truly authentic and humble man with a deep and understated wisdom and a dry sense of humor.”
Friends for more than 60 years, they worked their way up the corporate ladders at Holland-based businesses owned by their families to become leading executives.
A Texas native and graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Cadwallader joined Knoll following a chance encounter with Florence Knoll at a campus event.
