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 seven-story, 175,000-square-foot building, 400 S. 5th St., will include a showroom for West Elm's Workspace brand, which was launched in 2015. Coakley Brothers, known mainly as a moving and storage company, also operates Brothers Business Interiors, a dealership representing several office furniture manufacturers. That division also provides interior design and construction management services.
With an increasingly mobile workforce and an ever greater need for technology investments, companies and entrepreneurs continue to seek out new designs for their offices.
Among designers and the OEMs, different schools of thought continue to play out on the topic, including embracing open layouts, closed offices or a blend of the two.
Ridders Business Supply Co. has merged with another company and will operate under a new name, but in many ways the 151-year-old company has not changed.
"Everything is the same, except we've got pricing we've never seen before," said Paul Ridder, who has run the company for more than 30 years.
Midwest Office of Springfield, Ill., merged with Ridders on April 17. Ridder, 69, said the deal made sense when none of his children wanted to operate the business.
Nemours Children’s Health System not only serves the usual inpatient population,but also serves outpatient visitors in their 65,000 square foot facility. Due to their large campus and the vast array of clinical services offered, consistency was important. Also on the top of their list was an inherent healing component. The building was purposely placed beside a forest and wetland and their team wished to bring that therapeutic feeling inside their walls, as well.
Although known as Arnold’s Office Furniture today, immigrants David and Rose Norman founded their company as Norman’s Stationery Company in 1929. Their son, Arnold, joined the family business and started selling office furniture in 1950. He took over in 1973, renamed the company, and ran it until 2005, when he sold it to Jay Berkowitz.
Office design goes far beyond functionality and appearance. Designing to promote employee wellbeing is a strategy that more and more organizations are beginning to implement in the workplace. Over the last decade, we’ve seen a surge in workplace wellness programs and other workplace trends centered on health and wellbeing. Ergonomic solutions, alternative working spaces and office flexibility for workers have begun to gain more momentum. Here are a few of our suggestions for taking a health-minded approach to your workplace design
From the inner workings of the mind to the outer limits of the galaxy, Friday’s keynote at the 2017 AIA conference expanded the conversation well beyond the traditional boundaries of design.
Michael Bierut of Pentagram moderated a panel called “Design that Overcomes,” which included Dan Goods and David Delgado from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Dr. Eve Edelstein, the director of Perkins+Will’s Human Experience Lab.
Minneapolis, MN-based Atmosphere Commercial Interiors, a contract furniture and services dealership, announced that Carlene Wilson has been promoted to President, and has accepted the invitation to join the board of directors as well as acquire an equity stake in Omni Workspace, the holding company of Atmosphere.
Already from afar, onlookers on a brno housing estate in the Czech Republic can spot an all-black pavilion with an unusual and abstract looking envelope. On closer inspection, the low-rise volume is actually made up of a façade using many individual seats that have been angled and fixed directly onto the structure. This distinctive pavilion is a project where a former showroom for cars has been reinterpreted as a showroom and office for a furniture company.
Urban Land Institute Case Studies showcase innovative approaches and best practices in real estate and urban development by showcasing office furniture dealer One Workplace.
The boom in creative office has fueled new business for designers. Interior solutions provider Tangram, which focuses on commercial and creative design, has seen a 25% increase in sales since 2014 thanks to demand for co-designed and creative spaces. As a result, the firm has six Southern California offices and 300 employees.
Based in Houston, PDR specializes in the delivery of innovative workplace design. Our space is a think tank for innovation and creativity. It reflects who we are. A few years ago we had the opportunity to design our new office, and we became the client. The project was a very personal one. We knew our own office would be the perfect place to show our ability to live the perspective we bring to our clients every day.
Looming above San Francisco's SoMa district, LinkedIn's impressive new building has been the talk of the town since its opening. We had the opportunity to sit down with Neil Schneider, Design Director of Interior Architects, for an exclusive look inside LinkedIn's newest (and perhaps coolest!) office.
Custer has announced it is a dealer for Orangebox, a U.K.-based company that designs and develops office furniture for collaborative and flexible work environments. Custer will sell Orangebox's Air³ Acoustic Pod, which is an innovative, flexible room that can evolve with an organization as its work environment changes over time.
“Our world of work is changing quickly, therefore work environments you design and build today could change three years from now,” says David Driscol, vice president of regional sales at Custer.
San Francisco-based One Workplace has announced a new venture. According to the office furniture dealership, Pair, based out of San Francisco, will fulfill a long-standing need in the design community by finally giving designers the freedom to tailor furniture easily and affordably.
Pair is being led by Brian Buhl and Brian Wilson, the partners who successfully launched the two brand. Together, Wilson and Buhl plan to create a furniture brand that offers designers more freedom. "Up until now, companies haven't had much of a choice when it comes to furniture design," says Buhl. "There's always been the high-end fashion forward office furniture brands, but now we're giving clients a level of creativity that lets them truly personalize their furniture." Buhl adds, "We have a standard product catalogue, but nothing is precious, everything you see is completely hackable."
Commercial Office Interiors has merged with Silicon Valley-based workplace consultants and office furniture products dealer InsideSource.
The combined company will continue to operate from its location at 2601 4th Avenue in Seattle and retain all Commercial Office Interiors (COI) employees including local leadership. Terms of the new business formation were not disclosed. The Seattle office will do business as Commercial Office Interiors, an InsideSource Company. Dozens of InsideSource clients in the San Francisco Bay Area – many of them technology firms, have satellite operations in the Puget Sound area.
Adding garden design to commercial buildings will bring color, texture, light, fresh air, and the warmth and comfort of growing, living plants into a space. They can also improve the energy efficiency and carbon footprint of the building.
For interior green spaces to be healthy, they need light and water. Many growing mediums are available that are lightweight and can support plant growth without soil, and designers have a huge range of tools and materials for designing indoor and outdoor commercial garden spaces.
Design Within Reach, the largest retailer of authentic modern furniture and accessories in the world, today announces the opening of its newest retail space in Portland, Ore., located in the North Pearl District's Stagecraft Building, a circa 1890 two-story brick warehouse that originally served as a distribution center for pottery and housewares.
As work changes, the workplace has to change to keep up with it. As professional expectations expand to include mobile and remote productivity, offices are having to serve not only as permanent workspace installations, but as “hotel” or temporary touchdown spaces for staff on their way to or from somewhere else. Creating flexible, functional spaces that enhance productivity while retaining a grounded sense of collaborative purpose is a goal for all organizations. There are some core principles to remember when designing and implementing workspaces and interiors to meet the needs of mobile workers; bear them in mind from the start of your project and you will end up with happy end-users and a balanced budget.
Once upon a time the average work environment was very impersonal and lacked connotation. Now, all over the world the idea of what a professional work environment should be has evolved. Coupled with the way that people work within these environments. Organizations realized that designing a space that is conducive to its employee’s well-being, creativity as well as their potential, is of high importance. When the traditional workspace became obsolete, so did the idea of what a quality workspace looked and felt like. The feel of an environment has become an equally important component when designing a space.
