When Kimball Office asked Primo Orpilla to design a benching system last year, he had already been thinking about what an ideal workstation should be. He had been thinking about it for 25 years. If a career in workplace design teaches you anything, it is that people work differently depending upon their moods, the project, the progress of the day. “I wanted to combine all the things you would need in an office in one workplace system,” Primo says. With a tight deadline determined by Kimball’s desire to preview the piece at NeoCon, Primo set to work with assistant Emi Katagiri distilling everything he knew about workplace design into a single—and singular—piece of office furniture.
The result was Canopy.
A peerlessly adaptable desk that fits an astonishing range of possible configurations into the standard 30 x 60 workstation footprint, Canopy launches this week with a marketing flurry from Kimball and a sense of completion for its designer.
