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October 30, 2022
The Working Space
TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
October 12, 2021
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’
September 9, 2021
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
August 16, 2021
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
August 15, 2021
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
Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Dealers, Workplace Design

Inside the Transition From Traditional to Open Office

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Dealers, Workplace Design
Inside the Transition From Traditional to Open Office

A Glendale-based tech firm is expanding from a 40-person workforce to a 400-person workforce, and it is adopting an open office plan to accommodate the growth.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Design, Lighting, Products

Designer Tom Chung on His Beam Lamp for Muuto

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Design, Lighting, Products
Designer Tom Chung on His Beam Lamp for Muuto

The anodized aluminum desk light—fashioned after an old-style car’s headlight—shines from LEDs at both ends, one side dimming as the other brightens.

Source: Fast Company Design
February 27, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design, Workplace Look Book

How Ikea’s innovation lab redesigned its own open plan office

Source: Fast Company Design
February 27, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design, Workplace Look Book
How Ikea’s innovation lab redesigned its own open plan office

Many employees hate open offices. Yet scores of them continue to be built around the world; after all, open plan designs likely save companies millions per year.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace

Programming And Research-Based Process: The Genesis For Fostering Playful Work Design Exploration

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace
Programming And Research-Based Process: The Genesis For Fostering Playful Work Design Exploration

There is satisfaction in creating something custom and made-to-order.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Design, Products

In Design: Cameron Fry's Theodore Bench-Desk System

Source: CFN News Desk
February 27, 2019
Design, Products
In Design: Cameron Fry's Theodore Bench-Desk System

Cameron Fry, the owner and creative director of Liqui Group, led the development of this desk, which attempts to bridge the gap between the home and the office sustainably, and with style …

Source: Workplace Insight
February 27, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace

The square and the tower: why meetings and meeting spaces are more important than ever before

Source: Workplace Insight
February 27, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace
The square and the tower: why meetings and meeting spaces are more important than ever before

The subject of meetings is one of those that all too frequently generates as much heat as it does light. It is just as emotive a subject for people as office temperature, noise and distractions and the volatility of technology.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Flex Space

How are London office space prices affected by the growth of flexible workspaces?

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Flex Space
How are London office space prices affected by the growth of flexible workspaces?

A new report shows how office space prices have changed across the city in the past five years

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Products

Vipp Presents Its First Chair in 80 Years

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Products
Vipp Presents Its First Chair in 80 Years

Danish brand Vipp is adding a chair to their collection, and making a big move into the furniture category with its introduction.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
The Buzz

VARIDESK Elevates Jeff Lamb To President And Chief Operating Officer

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
The Buzz
VARIDESK Elevates Jeff Lamb To President And Chief Operating Officer

VARIDESK, the office furniture company best known as a leader in standing desks, has promoted Jeff Lamb to president and chief operating officer. 

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Design, Residential Furniture, Resimercial Furniture

9 Iconic Herman Miller Designs Everyone Should Know

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Design, Residential Furniture, Resimercial Furniture
9 Iconic Herman Miller Designs Everyone Should Know

It’s difficult to wrap arms around the importance of Herman Miller’s contributions to American design.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Coworking Facilities

Hotel Lobbies Are The Latest Stop On Coworking's Path To World Domination

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Coworking Facilities
Hotel Lobbies Are The Latest Stop On Coworking's Path To World Domination

Long past its start as a trendy, niche form of office space for small users, coworking is now infiltrating seemingly every other asset class in commercial real estate.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Green

Bringing a green edge to office design

Source: CFN News Desk
February 26, 2019
Green
Bringing a green edge to office design

Many businesses across the UK are moving beyond merely placing recycling bins in kitchens and putting up notices asking people to print fewer documents as part of their green thinking in the workplace initiatives.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Manufacturer

HNI Corporation Reports Earnings for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Manufacturer
HNI Corporation Reports Earnings for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018

Consolidated net sales increased $13.8 million or 2.4 percent from the prior year quarter to $598.1 million. On an organic basis, sales increased 5.4 percent.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Manufacturer, People

Why Former Steelcase CEO and now Ford CEO Jim Hackett may be the smartest person in the car business

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Manufacturer, People
Why Former Steelcase CEO and now Ford CEO Jim Hackett may be the smartest person in the car business

His ideas at Steelcase proved correct, now what's his plan at Ford? It's about trucks — but not just about building them.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Products

WHY THE AERON IS STILL THE MOST COVETED SEAT IN THE OFFICE

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Products
WHY THE AERON IS STILL THE MOST COVETED SEAT IN THE OFFICE

WHEN PRODUCT DESIGNER Bill Stumpf was asked by Herman Miller to develop ergonomic seating for the 1990s workplace, he began by watching people at work.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
The Buzz

Arcadia + Encore Appoints DCA/Debra Calkins Associates LLC As Independent Sales Representatives

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
The Buzz
Arcadia + Encore Appoints DCA/Debra Calkins Associates LLC As Independent Sales Representatives

The newly formed agency includes Principal Deb Calkins and Associate Kim Campbell, each with over twenty-five and twenty years respectively of industry experience at other independent rep firms, 

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Coworking Facilities

WeWork Is Retraining a Generation of Architects to Think in Terms of Data

Source: CFN News Desk
February 25, 2019
Coworking Facilities
WeWork Is Retraining a Generation of Architects to Think in Terms of Data

Data influences WeWork’s real estate deals, construction sequence, and design choices. There’s a sense that acquiring data literacy makes architecture relevant in a tech-dominated era.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 24, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design, Working Life

Affordance Impacts on Human Performance

Source: CFN News Desk
February 24, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design, Working Life
Affordance Impacts on Human Performance

How our environment communicates purpose and offers possibilities for action.

Source: CFN News Desk
February 23, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace, Working Life, Workplace Wellness

Amenities With Meaning: What The Modern Marketplace Demands

Source: CFN News Desk
February 23, 2019
Workplace Design, Workplace, Working Life, Workplace Wellness
Amenities With Meaning: What The Modern Marketplace Demands

Wellbeing at work is no longer a ‘nice to have’, but a ‘must have’.

Source: Workplace Insight
February 22, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design

When assessing workplace strategy: we should always test rather than guess

Source: Workplace Insight
February 22, 2019
Workplace, Workplace Design
When assessing workplace strategy: we should always test rather than guess

Why do many of the largest companies in the world invest millions of dollars in buildings or renovating their workplaces and never even bother to measure results.

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