We’ve been telling you for a while about AV integrators who are figuring out the important relationship furniture plays in creating a top-notch space for their customers—and for themselves.
Logitech and Herman Miller are the latest in the line of AV manufacturers teaming up with furniture companies—and we certainly don’t expect them to be the last.
Logitech and Herman Miller will showcase its partnership at InfoComm 2018 [booth N2622] in Las Vegas June 6-8 and the next week at NeoCon in Chicago at an event that’s becoming an increasingly important venue for AV manufacturers to show their wares.
“We’ve always had a tangential relationship with technology,” says Nathan Glotfelty, senior program manager of living office settings for Herman Miller, noting the company developed the first mousepad many years ago.
“The biggest difference is now we’re integrating early in the process, which wasn’t always the case.”
Herman Miller focuses on three things, says Glotfelty: surroundings, furnishings and tools. It’s not that different than AVIXA’s philosophy of transforming content, space and technology to create exceptional experiences for customers.
In addition to the obvious corporate applications, this new approach is ideal for health care and higher ed installations, he says.
“We have to be able to bring all of that to our clients,” says Glotfelty, noting Herman Miller has launched an initiative it calls Early Office that looks at a variety of corporate clients’ needs and approaches to their space, including show-and-tell, divide-and-conquer, spaces for groups and places for individuals to get their work done most effectively.