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.
It's not uncommon for creative individuals to branch out to other design mediums and trades. Therefore, it is no surprise that some of the world's most well-known architects and designers have segued into crafting products and, more specifically, furniture. Like Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand before them, these seven architects have collaborated with furniture manufacturers to design products that are reminiscent of their architectural aesthetics.
At Highway1, a design accelerator based in San Francisco, startups have four months to transform a prototype into a market-ready product, develop a business plan, create a brand identity, and craft a manufacturing strategy. To ease the process, Highway1 pairs the young entrepreneurs in the program with seasoned pros from top design consultancies.
How INARCH became VOA New York. We started INARCH in 1997 with just two people. It was a test to see if I could actually run a business on my own with a couple of clients that were willing to take the leap and work with me, though they had worked with me for a long time. It was my first foray into that.
Whether taking an automobile for a spin or attending workshops at the Apple Store, test drives have helped the modern consumer understand innovation. Gensler, too, has applied trial runs to its workplace business. When moving its own staff into a new office, the global design firm treats that space “as a laboratory that demonstrates our principles and our research,” says Andy Cohen, co-CEO of the company with Diane Hoskins.
Blå Station selected Thomas Bernstrand and Stefan Borselius to work on a collaboration that also brought in Johan Lindau, and the result is the Honken Workstation and ottoman. The design brings together everything you might need to get your work done—a comfortable seat, tabletop, storage, ottoman, and an electrical outlet—into one successful workstation.
Configura Extension Technology (CET) is the foundation of our technology. Together with other solutions from Configura, it creates an integrated platform that gives unmatched service to our customers and partners. The ultimate purpose of the CET platform is to support the implementation and use of world-class business solutions built around our proprietary software, CET Designer. Partners and customers are able to create, control, market and use their products and services through the CET platform.
Harnessing humor and transformation through life changing experiences like death, divorce and son going to college is a gift of life. Suzanne Tick, weaver, artist, NYC based textile designer explores the narrative of using the power of weaving and the craft of alchemy to transform discarded objects into beauty and art, along with the therapeutic effect of transforming a negative psyche to a positive one. Through its process of meditative repetition, the weaving of each art piece is a contemplation of personal growth and significance.
An undulating, space-age lobby ceiling sculpted by Isamu Noguchi in the 1940s has been uncovered at a U-Haul store in St. Louis, where it has been hidden by partitions and a drop ceiling for over two decades.
While some of the fixed-height ones are handsome, the problem with them is obvious: We're all different heights and require eyelines at different levels. The issue with the adjustable-height models is the inelegance/fiddliness of their mechanisms. Industrial designer Matt Cramsie set a tall order for himself: To design a good-looking, portable, height-adjustable laptop stand with good UX, i.e. an elegant adjustment mechanism. Together with business partner Anhtai Anhtuan he developed the Tiny Tower, which was a year and a half in the making.
Yes. Yes, we certainly can. Seriously. We cannot find any more old warehouse buildings to renovate, and selling space in the central business district is difficult as corporate buildings are becoming less and less attractive. We need a new building that is attractive to companies that cut their teeth in co-working incubators before seeking their own digs.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced a list of 11 winners for the 2016 National Design Awards. Established to foster the notion of design as a “vital humanistic tool in shaping the world,” the 17th iteration of the annual awards program recognizes excellence across various disciplines. This year’s winner in the Interior Design category is San Francisco–based Studio O+A, led by Contract’s 2011 Designers of the Year, Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander.
Sketching is a process of communication and expression, reflecting an individual’s hand and, at times, one’s personality: It’s an exaggerated signature.
Dutch design studio PolyLester has created a collection of furniture on wheels that is used to transform an industrial hangar into a venue for exhibitions, workshops, dinners or parties Amsterdam-based PolyLester designed various mobile elements to furnish the old hangar, which was first built to house military engineering facilities at one of the 42 forts along the Dutch capital's historic defence line
The legendary Italian furniture design brand B&B Italia has recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding by Piero Ambrogio Busnelli. Now under the direction of the founder’s sons, this family business continues to maintain its position as one of the leading global names in contemporary, innovative design. This prestigious brand maintains its reputation for attracting the very best of Italian and International talent such as Antonio Citterio, Mario Bellini, Pierluigi Cerritos, Piano, Patricia Urquiola, Naoto Fukasawa and last but not least, the late, great, Zaha Hadid.
As any smartphone user could attest, the things we own sometimes end up owning us. Equally, the things we create can end up owning us. The most famous item designed by Charles Eames is a moulded plywood, leather upholstered lounge chair and matching ottoman that are timelessly iconic, have spawned thousands of rip-off versions, invariably feature in any anthology of classic Twentieth Century design and are now part of a permanent exhibit at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Yet Eames himself never intended it to go into production in the first place and didn’t even view it as his best product. In an interview in Time magazine he reveals that it was originally designed as a gift for a friend. ‘I made it as a present for Billy Wilder,’ he said. ‘Billy had made a picture in East Germany and found a Marcel Breuer chair and brought it back to me and this was a return present.’
Gorgeous furniture is only half of Milan Design Week, the largest, most prestigious design fair of the year. The other half? Head-scratching conceptual projects and design experiments that push the field into the future. Think about interior designs that morph over time, stools made from 3-D printing scraps, and even a petting zoo that stabilizes your mood. We scoured the city to find the best, most cutting-edge designs. Think of this as a guide to the living room of tomorrow.
Rebecca Christy is a designer at Interprise in Addison, Texas. Rebecca’s design submission in Coalesse’s Carl Hansen & Son Blank Canvas Contest was the winner of our popular vote on Instagram. For her prize, Rebecca received four Carl Hansen & Son CH88 Chairs. In this blog post, Rebecca shares her experience receiving and placing the chairs in her home.
The most open and personal interview of this Salone was “coerced” from Odo Fioravanti. A lone voice that always has lots of interesting things to say, Fioravanti talks not just about design but about envy, social media and the “challenge of another chair”. #MDW2016
Industrial designer and West Michigan native Joey Ruiter teamed up with Grand Rapids Chair Company for the third consecutive year for a bold new take on modern restaurant furniture, the Leo Collection. Always ahead of the curve, this rising star of the industrial design world won a Best of NeoCon Gold award just two years into his career and currently holds over 25 patents in furniture and transportation design.
