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.
Thonet, which was founded by Philipp Thonet's great, great grandfather Michael Thonet in 1819, first produced the 209 chair at the turn of the 20th century.
Of the evolving list of dream jobs for designers just out of school, the global design firm Frog might have the broadest appeal simply based on the nature of its work. In addition to pushing forward the design industry with sharp, curiosity-driven projects, its approach to design is interdisciplinary—which means it employs designers that work across digital, industrial, and interactive design.
Last week, Milan hosted its annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair and design week. During Salone, designers and manufacturers pull out all the stops to present their best work to the more than 300,000 people who flock to Milan for the fair. Think of it as the furniture industry’s fashion week.
This year, designers explored the fertile ground between digital fabrication and craft and the value of multisensory experience-driven design; they developed new materials and production techniques; they tried to solve some of our most mundane problems, like moving; they found ways to make boring furniture categories exciting; they looked to design to alleviate some of the stresses wrought by our trying political times; and, of course, they created a lot stuff that’s simply gorgeous.
Today, app developer Morpholio has unveiled the newest addition to its collection of architectural aids. Ava, short for Automated Visual Assembly, aims to streamline the interior design process by allowing the user to navigate seamlessly between visually-appealing presentation boards and detailed, editable data spreadsheets.
salone del mobile 2017: Driade invited several designers to interpret the theme ‘revolution’ for their presentation at the furniture fair in Milan- one of them being philippe starck. the ‘torquemada’ collection features a family of oak furniture consisting of a table, chair, an armchair and stool and additionally, the french designer has added the ‘lou speak bergere’ to the lou collection which was presented last year.
Throughout their career as industrial designers, the husband-and-wife duo Scholten & Baijings have proved themselves to be acutely sensitive colorists. Together, the Dutch designers routinely kit out their furniture, fabrics, and objects in a host of unique shades and fresh palettes, making color something akin to form. In this short film, Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings peel back the curtain on their chromatic philosophy.
The latest addition to Mattiazzi's furniture collection is the stripped-back Quindici lounge chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, launched at Milan design week. The seating comes in two editions – an armchair, and a chaise lounge version with an additional leg rest. Both feature T-shaped armrests that contrast the softer silhouette of the seat, which is made from thin panels of ash.
Jane Abernathy is dedicated to developing the strategic vision for sustainability at Humanscale. Recently elected to the HPD Collaborative’s 2017 Board of Directors, Jane has become a strong advocate for sustainable practices in the manufacturing industry. We recently spoke to Jane about her background and Humanscale’s commitment to making a net positive impact on the earth.
Milan's Salone del Mobile, the design and furniture fair which closes on Sunday, has, once again, been overwhelming. The number of activities going on at once — performances, exhibitions, special projects, installations, parties, dinners and cocktail parties thrown to unveil furniture-related shop windows — is just incredible. Hidden and not-so-hidden city spots are given a sudden boost of visibility, making the whole urban fabric come alive, pulsating and, frankly, quite magic. Milan is a wonderful European capital whose understated beauty truly shines when the stiffness softens and the cold demeanour turns into shy kindness. It happens all the time with Salone: secret gardens and forgotten locations are opened for a few days, before reverting back to urban oblivion.
Almost unique in his capacity to pair craftsmanship, design and business, Giacomo Moor tells us about the new work he is bringing to #MDW17, such as the Vapore collection by Luisa Delle Piane, which investigates an old, complex and increasingly rare technique: steam-bending hardwood.
This year, at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Herman Miller and Maharam present the exhibit “Chromatography: The Colour World of Scholten & Baijings” to launch the new ColourForm Sofa Group and shine a light on our partnership with the pair of Dutch designers. Partners in life and work, Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have spent decades perfecting a droll brand of minimalism, where pattern and texture, soft colors, and subtle geometry coalesce into surprising furniture, fabrics, and objects. In addition to ColourForm, the pair will also unveil a trio of new fabrics in multiple colorways. WHY recently sat down with the couple to get their views on comfort, creativity, and why it all starts with color.
Boutique and luxury hotels often pay careful attention to the furniture in each room. Instead of generic stuff that looks like it came from the clearance section of Wayfair, they give guests name-brand beds, nightstands, desks, and chairs. The functions are more or less the same, but they come in a prettier shell. For Salone del Mobile, the annual furniture fair in Milan, industrial design students at ECAL created a collection of hospitality furniture that’s dramatically different–equal parts clever, bizarre, and inventive.
British designer Jasper Morrison will debut a collection of deceptively simple-looking seating and tables for American furniture brand Emeco at Milan design week.
Called 1 Inch, the collection includes a chair, armchair and stools in three heights as well as cafe and bar tables. Each piece features a simple frame made from a recycled, one-inch-square extruded aluminium tube that was selected for its strength-to-weight ratio.
As snow swirled through Manhattan this month, the British designer Tom Dixon found himself in a cozy spot above it all, standing atop a twin-size bed with a dozen nervous students at the Parsons School of Design in Greenwich Village.
Dressed in a charcoal suit, Mr. Dixon was trying to make a radical point: that Ikea, the Swedish furniture giant known for beds and dressers that are so inexpensive they are often perceived as being disposable, could manufacture a collection of affordable, heirloom-quality pieces to last a lifetime.
David Rockwell is the founder and president of the Rockwell Group and a theatrical set designer.On this episode, he talks about his multifaceted exploration of “how the immediate environment can connect people,“ from restaurants and children’s playgrounds to the Broadway stage.
Work spaces need to provide inspiration without compromising performance. Inspiring moments within a space can engage the mind, allow for respite from the rigors of the workday or allow people to see a problem from a new perspective.
As president of Designtex for the last five years, Susan Lyons leads a team of innovators who are relied upon to inspire others with an evolving collection of textiles, wallcoverings and other applied materials with reduced environmental impact. Designtex, a Steelcase company, is the leading company in the design and manufacturing of applied materials for the built environment.
HUBB is a modular interior furniture concept that responds to rapidly changing environments within work and education. Developed by mecanoo and Dutch furniture company Gispen, the project explores the growing popularity of settings that host multiple programs and activities simultaneously.
Using a simple core form, HUBB comprises a series of building blocks that enables endless combinations — offering the flexibility for customization. If the spatial requirements change, the building blocks can be easily reused by adapting or expanding the configuration. every component — seating, table, canopy elements, add-ones and add in-betweens — is fully (de)mountable and reusable.
How do you measure “innovation?” It’s something that every organization seems to be after–just look at AT&T’s Innovation Pipeline, Sephora’s Innovation Research lab, and the University of Pennsylvania’s punny Pennovation Center–but it’s extremely hard to quantify.
Yesterday, the Trump administration submitted its 2018 budget proposal to Congress. As predicted, there are deep cuts to virtually every department. Some of the hardest hit? The EPA (down 31%), the State Department (down 29%), and the USDA (down 21%), and the Department of Health and Human Services (down 18%).
The negative consequences to public health, food safety, rural development, and the environment could be dire. But what really stings is the elimination of arts and science programs. Gutting the National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment of the Humanities–which represent just 0.02% of the overall budget–is not a cost-saving measure. It’s a petty political vendetta that’s symbolically undermining the creative soul of America.
A picture is worth 1,000 words, but what does that mean really? In the end, can one truly be certain about an end product with a single picture? Through virtual reality (VR), architecture and design firms are now able to make sure that clients are aware of all the nooks and crannies of a single building through immersive experiences rather than flat renderings.
Perkins+Will, an American architecture and design firm established in 1935, is one of these firms determined to help their clients explore the spaces they create through virtual reality.
