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.
After 21 years as a principal and partner at Kansas City's Contract Furnishings Rents LLC, Jean-Paul Wong is leaving his shared space with Contract Furnishings Inc. and moving in a new direction.
Prestige represented some of the biggest names in furniture manufacturing, including Herman Miller and Kitchener-based Krug. Clients have included Google, D2L, Conestoga College, the Region of Waterloo and the Kitchener and Waterloo public libraries.
Upper Macungie Township-based Interior Workplace said in a news release it has acquired Creative Business Interiors of Wilkes-Barre. Interior Workplace and plans to roll Creative’s eight employees into one of its divisions and maintain Creative’s showroom and distribution facility under the Creative name.
#raleighcon17 was the office furniture event of the year for the Triangle. 38 office furniture, fabric, flooring and accessory vendors came together under one roof to show the latest offerings in office environments.
When people are inspired by place, anything is possible. An environment powered by human-centered design can spark potential and drive prosperity.
A former employee of a Philadelphia commercial office furniture dealership alleges she is owed unpaid overtime wages.
Herman Miller has announced the sale of Workplace Resource of Canada's Vancouver location to Contemporary Office Interiors (COI).
One Workplace has seen three generations of the Ferrari family — but it was family-owned before Mark Ferrari, his siblings, or even his father came into leadership.
Whether its robots, artificial intelligence or automation, technology is changing how humans work. And, while some jobs we humans hold today may be doomed to disappear in the not-too-distant future, history has taught us this doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, it may, in the long run, even be a good thing.
The seven-story, 175,000-square-foot building, 400 S. 5th St., will include a showroom for West Elm's Workspace brand, which was launched in 2015. Coakley Brothers, known mainly as a moving and storage company, also operates Brothers Business Interiors, a dealership representing several office furniture manufacturers. That division also provides interior design and construction management services.
With an increasingly mobile workforce and an ever greater need for technology investments, companies and entrepreneurs continue to seek out new designs for their offices.
Among designers and the OEMs, different schools of thought continue to play out on the topic, including embracing open layouts, closed offices or a blend of the two.
Ridders Business Supply Co. has merged with another company and will operate under a new name, but in many ways the 151-year-old company has not changed.
"Everything is the same, except we've got pricing we've never seen before," said Paul Ridder, who has run the company for more than 30 years.
Midwest Office of Springfield, Ill., merged with Ridders on April 17. Ridder, 69, said the deal made sense when none of his children wanted to operate the business.
Nemours Children’s Health System not only serves the usual inpatient population,but also serves outpatient visitors in their 65,000 square foot facility. Due to their large campus and the vast array of clinical services offered, consistency was important. Also on the top of their list was an inherent healing component. The building was purposely placed beside a forest and wetland and their team wished to bring that therapeutic feeling inside their walls, as well.
Although known as Arnold’s Office Furniture today, immigrants David and Rose Norman founded their company as Norman’s Stationery Company in 1929. Their son, Arnold, joined the family business and started selling office furniture in 1950. He took over in 1973, renamed the company, and ran it until 2005, when he sold it to Jay Berkowitz.
Office design goes far beyond functionality and appearance. Designing to promote employee wellbeing is a strategy that more and more organizations are beginning to implement in the workplace. Over the last decade, we’ve seen a surge in workplace wellness programs and other workplace trends centered on health and wellbeing. Ergonomic solutions, alternative working spaces and office flexibility for workers have begun to gain more momentum. Here are a few of our suggestions for taking a health-minded approach to your workplace design
From the inner workings of the mind to the outer limits of the galaxy, Friday’s keynote at the 2017 AIA conference expanded the conversation well beyond the traditional boundaries of design.
Michael Bierut of Pentagram moderated a panel called “Design that Overcomes,” which included Dan Goods and David Delgado from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Dr. Eve Edelstein, the director of Perkins+Will’s Human Experience Lab.
Minneapolis, MN-based Atmosphere Commercial Interiors, a contract furniture and services dealership, announced that Carlene Wilson has been promoted to President, and has accepted the invitation to join the board of directors as well as acquire an equity stake in Omni Workspace, the holding company of Atmosphere.
Already from afar, onlookers on a brno housing estate in the Czech Republic can spot an all-black pavilion with an unusual and abstract looking envelope. On closer inspection, the low-rise volume is actually made up of a façade using many individual seats that have been angled and fixed directly onto the structure. This distinctive pavilion is a project where a former showroom for cars has been reinterpreted as a showroom and office for a furniture company.
Urban Land Institute Case Studies showcase innovative approaches and best practices in real estate and urban development by showcasing office furniture dealer One Workplace.
The boom in creative office has fueled new business for designers. Interior solutions provider Tangram, which focuses on commercial and creative design, has seen a 25% increase in sales since 2014 thanks to demand for co-designed and creative spaces. As a result, the firm has six Southern California offices and 300 employees.
