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.
An office environment with textile-objects connected to the Myant Platform will be aware of the worker's current physical and psychological state, anticipate their needs, and react to create personalized experiences that optimize individual and enterprise-level performance.
Japanese design studio nendo has designed a collection of stackable chairs made of recycled household plastics.
The war for talent. Digital transformation. Sustainability. Three macro forces are driving dramatic change in the workplace evidenced by design implications for the coming year.
San Francisco's asking office rents continued to climb in the fourth quarter as the city saw its lowest leasing volume in three years, according to a report from brokerage Newmark Knight Frank.
Steelcase Applied Research + Consulting collaborates with Bosch Software Innovations to imagine a workplace that supports agile work.
Genuine Parts Company announced that it has completed the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary S.P. Richards Co. Canada Inc. (S.P. Richards Canada) to Novexco Inc. .
Jesper Brodin, the CEO of Ikea’s largest franchisee, talks about getting closer to customers and experimenting with new ways to expand the brand.
Looking for a town to sell office furniture in? Manhattan’s office market hit the highest leasing volume level in nearly two decades last year, showing companies' appetite for new Big Apple offices has not yet been satiated
RockIt is a light scale bench that is designed to utilize natural materials to create diverse environments, including Resimercial, Industrial Chic and Mid-Century Modern.
One Workplace, the California Steelcase superdealer, continues to extend its reach with the acquisition of OpenSquare, a dealer that serves Seattle and Spokane.
Heimtextil, the largest international trade fair for interior textiles, is starting the new decade with a pledge to be more sustainable. In its “Material Manifesto,” published in anticipation of the Frankfurt fair’s 50th edition.
The think tank's largest post-occupancy study of new and refurbished workplaces shows that open plans and flexible workstations might be underestimated.
“We are at a point where there is a potential for an upside but also a potential for things to get worse," reports AIA chief economist Kermit Baker.
The privately-owned company headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, recently celebrated its 50th year in business and has more than 400 employees worldwide.
And no amount of data or complex modeling will rectify the building industry’s staggering impact on the environment. Design culture itself needs to change.
So much for reviving American manufacturing. The ISM manufacturing index in December registers its lowest level in over 10 years.
