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.
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.
Herman Miller, Inc. announced today the sale of its corporately-owned dealership, Spectrum, to Peggy Kelly, Spectrum's current president. The sale was completed on January 1, 2017.
Established in 1965, Spectrum is not only the oldest, but also the largest, Herman Miller dealership in Philadelphia. Kelly, who joined the dealership as President in 2013, is recognized for strengthening Spectrum and Herman Miller's position in the greater Philadelphia area.
"We believe commercial distribution is best managed by independent, experienced owners," said Mike Hamacher, Vice President of Distribution Channels. "Peggy not only has a tremendous amount of experience in the industry, but also has an intimate understanding of the market in and around Philadelphia."
Research on sensorial design helps LinkedIn create offices that boost wellbeing and engagement.
“It’s all about turning on the senses at work, not turning them off,” says Il Prisma architect Elisabetta Pero. Il Prisma, a Steelcase distributor, undertook a unique research project which led to the design of LinkedIn offices in Milan, Munich, Paris and Madrid that engage the five senses — in order to boost employee wellbeing. Afterall, it’s through the five senses—sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—that humans perceive the world.
Il Prisma undertook a scientific study to measure how the five senses within the workplace neurologically affect people. The research helped determine what fosters different states in the brain, specifically attention, focus, learning, evocative, simplicity and calm, which help people work better.
See photos from all four LinkedIn locations and read more about sensorial design in 360 Latest News >
An intangible power emanates from the spaces in which we live and work. It touches and shapes our behavior, our perceptions, and our interactions. When designed well, a space can make you feel deeply appreciative (and, in my case, perhaps a little jealous) of the amazing people who can so artfully shape that kind of visceral experience. It was this same power that touched me when I made my first recruiting trip to California to join One Workplace as their Creative Director.
I knew I wanted to belong the moment I walked through the door. Perhaps it was the feeling of excitement from a long trip, or maybe it was jet lag, but something was happening. I sensed that I was much more than just a visitor to this place, and my gut told me this should be my home. Here was an organization that shared my values, spoke my language, and was doing the kind of work I wanted to be part of. I felt all of those things within the first few seconds of entering the office – before I had even met anyone.
KBM Workspace and Hogue, both premier Knoll dealerships headquartered in San Jose and San Francisco respectively, announced today that they have merged, resulting in a combined entity to be known as KBM-Hogue.
The merger creates an industry-leading, full-service office furniture dealership with operations in San Jose, San Francisco, and Sacramento, representing the largest Knoll dealership in Northern California. This transaction enables KBM-Hogue to leverage complementary areas of strength; including groundbreaking design, high-touch customer service, and flawless execution. The combined operations, expanded footprint, and economies of scale strengthens KBM-Hogue’s market presence. Thus, enabling the company to achieve faster growth as a stronger, more competitive single company.
When most people think about living green the first thought is to start in their homes. Here at One Workplace we see sustainability as the foundation for everything that we do. Our goal is to be a leading example that the workplace doesn’t have to be exempt from the ways we all tackle being more environmentally effective. Being sustainable isn’t a choice any longer, it is now a necessity for most companies to move forward while simultaneously giving back. We’re learning that there are so many ways to create a greener more energy efficient work environment. And over the last several years we’ve been committed to making One Workplace more energy resourceful and environmentally friendly. It began with one objective in mind, to create a healthier, more productive place to work. It started with us rethinking the ways in which we utilize our resources in order to restructure our working environment, as well as changing the ways we connect with each other and nature through technology.
Frederick Community College is repurposing an underused 1980s-era library space into a flexible learning resource center(above) tailored to students’ and educators’ specific needs (and adaptable enough to evolve to meet future ones). Bialek Environments, a full-service provider of contract office furniture and design services, and Intellistruct, Bialek’s prefabricated construction firm, were engaged to bring Proffitt & Associates Architects' design vision to fruition, creating a collaborative environment for Frederick Community College.
FCC’s new center offers private and open study rooms, an instructional area, and a more relaxed spot for students and faculty. The center, with walls and other surfaces imbued with DIRTT technology like AV interfacing, has quickly become a favorite spot on campus, and the waiting list for the coveted group meeting spaces is a testament to the facility’s popularity and value.
The Blitz team was honored with an Interior Architecture Merit Honor award at last week’s AIA Santa Clara Valley 2016 Design Awards for One Workplace’s Headquarters and Showroom. OWP is the largest furniture dealer in Northern California and the single source for Steelcase furniture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The project consists of 35,000 square feet of office, showroom, and workspace that seamlessly weaves together to redefine the customer and user experience.
As a result, ICFF Miami is still scheduled to close at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday but will NOT reopen tomorrow (Thursday). Tonight’s opening party at the Luminaire Showroom WILL occur as planned with shuttle service available to the event.
Close your eyes and imagine that you are attending a shop class and were being taught how to weld. Welding is a mechanical, hands on, knowledge based activity. You need to pay close and careful attention to your teacher as they describe the methods used while welding. After the teacher skillfully shows you how to complete a perfect stringer bead weld, and all of the safety measures you need to take, they hand you the welder. It’s your turn and so the teacher asks you to try.
Open your eyes. Who was your teacher? Was the person whom you imagined a woman? How about a 9 year old girl? The answer is most likely, “no”, which is precisely why our good friend Emily Pilloton founded Girls Garage – to break gender gaps and bust through stereotypes that girls don’t ‘make’ or ‘build’.
It’s been more than a year since Target Corp. sold off its commercial furniture business and, armed with aggressive new owners, Atmosphere Commercial Interiors has posted a 20 percent jump in revenue in its first year as a standalone company.
Atmosphere CEO Mike Litwin was instrumental in brokering the sale to the owners of Minneapolis-based Omni Workspace Co., which had been the company’s partner for 30 years as an installer of commercial furniture.
OpenSquare has been hard at work getting our new showroom together and we just "Can't Stop the Feeling" of excitement!
