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 making of architecture is best taught by example,” said Robert A. M. Stern today, as he accepted the 2017 AIA Topaz Medallion at the national conference in Orlando. “Architecture education should also prepare students to positively affect the lives of others.”
Now the dust has settled on the fair for another year, some of the most striking observations from the world's biggest and most important design gathering relate to what wasn't there, rather than what was. With key brands absent, politics off the agenda and China barely mentioned, the week offers a somewhat outmoded view of what design means today.
However most fairgoers seemed blissfully unconcerned by this, mindlessly instagramming everything in sight and calling out ever-shallower trends based on the flimsiest of evidence.
Milan was awash with exhibitions, fairs and talks last week, as design in its many forms took over the city for the annual Salone del Mobile design week.
More than 300,000 people hit the streets of the Italian capital over six days at locations dotted across the city. Exhibits ranged from Lee Broom’s reimagining of his furniture and lighting collections from the last decade in a disused vault at Centrale station, to Alessi’s tribute to Zaha Hadid, which saw it transform the windows of its flagship store on Via Manzoni into an installation of notable designs created in collaboration with the late architect.
Last week Dezeen and IKEA threw a huge party for Milan design week, with nearly 3,000 guests filling a huge warehouse in Ventura Lambrate. Watch our movie to see highlights from the event.
Crowds of designers and Milan visitors flocked to Dezeen's party at IKEA Festival last week, where tech creatives Teenage Engineering put on a live synth show and partygoers took to the dance floor with hula hoops.
Last week, Milan hosted its annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair and design week. During Salone, designers and manufacturers pull out all the stops to present their best work to the more than 300,000 people who flock to Milan for the fair. Think of it as the furniture industry’s fashion week.
This year, designers explored the fertile ground between digital fabrication and craft and the value of multisensory experience-driven design; they developed new materials and production techniques; they tried to solve some of our most mundane problems, like moving; they found ways to make boring furniture categories exciting; they looked to design to alleviate some of the stresses wrought by our trying political times; and, of course, they created a lot stuff that’s simply gorgeous.
Milan's Salone del Mobile, the design and furniture fair which closes on Sunday, has, once again, been overwhelming. The number of activities going on at once — performances, exhibitions, special projects, installations, parties, dinners and cocktail parties thrown to unveil furniture-related shop windows — is just incredible. Hidden and not-so-hidden city spots are given a sudden boost of visibility, making the whole urban fabric come alive, pulsating and, frankly, quite magic. Milan is a wonderful European capital whose understated beauty truly shines when the stiffness softens and the cold demeanour turns into shy kindness. It happens all the time with Salone: secret gardens and forgotten locations are opened for a few days, before reverting back to urban oblivion.
Within an area of around 1,600 m2, A Joyful Sense at Work showcases this new concept of the workplace by creating a piazza virtually split into three “areas” or “regions” according to purpose: the Concentration area, a closed-off region and private space for individual work; the Sharing area, a short-stay region, a public space for collaboration, socializing and sharing; the Creative area, a space for innovation, invention and imagination, which converge in a large central piazza; and Porous Fabric, a filter space, an intermediate area between public and private, a place for opportunities and exchange.
Yesterday marked the start of the 56th edition of the Salone del Mobile – the biggest furniture fair of the year. Here’s a look at some of the new offerings on display at the fairgrounds and offsite throughout Milan.
A timeless classic, incessantly projected towards the future: The Componibili have just turned 50 and Kartell is dedicating a special event to this timeless icon created by Anna Castelli Ferrieri which immediately became a long-time bestseller of the brand. To celebrate this anniversary, designers, curators, critics and intellectuals from all over the world have been invited to make their own personal contribution.
To mark the opening of the Salone del Mobile 2017 the Milanese flagship store in via Turati will host an exhibition to be inaugurated on Tuesday 4 April and scheduled to run until 9 April.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Love it or hate it, iSalone, which kicked off Tuesday in Milan, is a funky mix of innovation, beautiful design and a dash of just plain weird. The show is massive, but the office portion of the show called Workplace3.0 Salone Ufficio, the biennial office furniture section, seems to be shrinking.
Milan design week is a few days from kick-off, but a number of trends are already emerging from the world's biggest and most important design fair. Milan design week takes over the Italian city in April each year – and Dezeen has already selected 15 must-see exhibitions and installations to see. Politics, technology and the environment are the drivers for a lot of this year's trends, which are seeing designers working with recycled materials, ancient crafts and new processes.
Watching the Chinese office furniture market is kind of like watching a child grow up. Early in the development, there's a lot of stumbling and falling, but eventually you get to see them run. As the China International Furniture Fair kicked off Tuesday in Guangzhou, visitors found an industry that isn't quite running at full speed, but darn close to it.
Returning between the 4th and 9th April 2017, the ‘workplace3.0’ exhibition explores the new approaches, forms and solutions that will define the workspaces of the future. as the second biennial event at the salone del mobile milano 2017, along with the euroluce show, ‘workplace 3.0’ merges elements of the virtual and physical, shared and individual, and interior and exterior. most significantly, the exhibition will highlight the vital roles that human factors and smart technologies play in shaping where people work.
Once again, the Salone del Mobile.Milano prepares for the international limelight with its 56th Exhibition, which runs between Tuesday 4th and Sunday 9th April at the Fiera Milano Rho. The event confirms its place as the benchmark for quality and innovation thanks to the broad and comprehensive range of products on offer – from furniture and furnishings to lighting and workspaces – and two concomitant events, as well as its place as a forum for ideas.
As from 2015, the Salone dedicated to the workplace has taken on the new designation Workplace3.0, an innovative exhibition area devoted to design and technology in workspace planning, that confirms its new vocation as an exploration of brand-new approaches, forms and solutions to the workplace "of the future", in which the human factor and smart technologies have a vital role to play.
All year long, we trekked around the world to visit every design event, fair, and show that we possibly could in hopes of bringing you the best new design out there. In case you missed any of it, we take another look at all the design shows we covered in 2016.
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, studies how doctors think, providing a unique perspective on what exactly takes place between the time a patient presents with symptoms and a diagnosis is finally reached.
However, the practice of medical diagnostics is complex, and the increasing reliance on technology in care delivery—specifically the electronic medical record—is only complicating matters. The appetite for metrics in healthcare and requirement for constant documentation is resulting in physicians and other care professionals bogged down by the stressors that come with it, all while breaking down the all-important doctor/patient relationship.
Dhaliwal shared his thoughts on how technology in medical practice is part of the problem but also opportunities for how it can become part of the solution in his Sunday opening keynote presentation at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference: “How Do Doctors Think: Diagnostic Challenges in the New Era of Health IT.”
USGBC CEO Rick Fedrizzi reflects on the exciting announcements of Day One at Greenbuild.
As a result, ICFF Miami is still scheduled to close at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday but will NOT reopen tomorrow (Thursday). Tonight’s opening party at the Luminaire Showroom WILL occur as planned with shuttle service available to the event.
This week, thousands of people will descend on Los Angeles to attend Greenbuild 2016. The world’s largest conference dedicated to green building, Greenbuild attracts architects, contractors and developers, facility managers and interior designers; the list goes on and on. At KI, we embrace our responsibility as a manufacturer to preserve natural resources and protect the environment through sustainable furniture design and Greenbuild is the perfect venue to continue our sustainability conversation.
Just like our recent event in D.C., we brought our general “choice in the workplace” TALK to Chicago at the end of July, but with a twist: we didn’t just talk about choice. Instead, we stacked the panel with designers only, and talked about designing for it. Cheryl Durst, the executive vice president and CEO of IIDA, the International Interior Design Association, joined us again as guest moderator, and Discover hosted us in their cutting-edge, 26,000 square foot Discover 606 space, which the company makes available for employees who are working downtown or need a place to touch down between meetings.
