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.
Herman Miller, Inc. is one of a select group of U.S. businesses to receive a perfect score on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality. The global furniture manufacturer is one of just 407 companies nationwide to receive a 100 percent rating and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBT equality.
Introducing Essentia, the newest and most exciting member of Workrite’s height-adjustable workcenter portfolio. Featuring our exclusive European manufactured industrial design, an inductive touch control switch with 6 memory presets, and adjustable stretchers that provide greater flexibility for work space design, Essentia is truly in a league of its own.
Allseating’s growth in the healthcare market will continue into 2016 with the addition of a smaller-scale line of seating and tables featuring a classic, streamlined design. The new line—which is currently in prototype—will complement the company’s current Foster Collection, the family of patient, guest and lounge solutions introduced two years ago.
The contract interiors realm is in a state of flux. Project management was once a major function of architecture and design firms, but it is now largely handled by corporate real estate firms. In recent years, corporate real estate firms such as CBRE and JLL have also hired workplace strategists – typically employed by architecture and design firms – to consult with their clients on better ways to maximize the effectiveness of their real estate investments. Now, with the creation of a furniture advisory team in the Chicago market, CBRE is leading the industry in a brand new concept to bring transparency to the furniture buying component, and it is delivering big results for its clients. With furniture making up the second largest spend in a renovation project, CBRE identified a need to educate clients on the “how to buy” rather than the “what to buy.”
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The office furniture brand Artopex formed a trifecta of Quebec-based design companies – along with Lemay and LumiGroup – to collaborate on its locally focused Quebec City showroom.
I recently had the privilege of introducing Coalesse to a group of talented architects and interior designers from France, Germany, Italy, and South Africa. Over the course of a few days, I witnessed Coalesse in three powerful ways: social connection, design inspiration, and expertise.
OFM announced today it has contracted with a national third-party logistics provider (3PL) to house additional inventory in three new strategic locations nationwide. This expansion means OFM will now distribute its products from five locations around the country as part of a new business development effort to support its continued growth over the next 20 years.
Florence Knoll Bassett was Knoll’s universal arbiter of taste. According to Murray Rothenberg, an early Knoll designer who worked directly for Shu, as Florence (neé Schust) was known by her co-workers, “Everything was controlled by Mrs. Knoll, everything that the public saw—letterhead, business cards, stationery, graphics—it doesn’t matter. She saw it, she approved it.” Until Robert Cadwallader’s appointment as Director of Marketing in 1967, the company’s marketing department was, essentially, a one-woman show.
Coalesse and Steelcase have over two dozen WorkLife Centers around the world that showcase our insights into how humans interact with workspaces, and how to create an interconnected workplace. We recently redid our locations in London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Rosenheim with Coalesse products providing a tranquil space for staff and visitors to relax and rejuvenate. Which of these settings would be your retreat in the office?
Revenue increased by $15.4 million, or 33.1%, for the three months ended September 30, 2015 compared with the same period in 2014. Revenue increased by $42.3 million, or 32.7%, for the nine months ended September 30, 2015 compared with the same period in 2014. The increase in revenue was the result of continued momentum throughout North American markets, as well as the strengthening US dollar.
Kimball International, Inc. Tuesday announced first quarter fiscal year 2016 net sales of $156.6 million and income from continuing operations of $5.6 million, or $0.15 per diluted share.
Net sales in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016 increased 8% from the prior year first quarter, driven by increases in all vertical markets except the commercial vertical which was approximately flat. The majority of the sales increase was in the hospitality vertical which increased 34% over the prior year, driven by an increase in new hotel construction and renovations. The commercial, government, healthcare, education, and finance verticals increased in total 3% over prior year in part driven by marketing promotions and new product introductions tailored to specific verticals.
Perkins+Will has announced the opening of a major new showroom for Haworth, Inc., its longstanding client, in downtown Los Angeles. The project is both a fresh new design and the first showroom in North America ever designed to the WELL Building Standard. The completed project also marks three decades of collaboration between the two companies, a relationship that began in Chicago in 1984 and includes the design of Haworth’s headquarters, as well as its showrooms around the world.
Presented during designblok 15 — prague’s annual design and fashion week — the vitra hub is a experimental installation completed by students of the city’s academy of arts, architecture and design (AAAD). responding to the event’s overarching theme of ‘freedom’, the hub functions as a creative outpost, encouraging public participation and reappropriation. the work incorporates two major pieces by renowned german designer konstantin grcic: ‘hack’, a flexible table system that seeks to anticipate the changing requirements of both companies and employees, and ‘allstar’, a chair that seeks to defy typical office stereotypes.
Workers want to spend time in a space that’s inviting, comfortable, and supports their needs. So this month, our Coalesse collective design news is focused on the personal touches in the office that reflect our unique personalities and team cultures.
HNI, HNI, parent of HON and Allsteel, reported last week that sales in the office furniture sector of their business decreased $12.6 million or 2.6 percent to $476.0 million. Sales for the quarter decreased in both the supplies-driven and contract channels.
Knoll announced total net sales were $263.6 million for the third quarter, a slight decrease of 1.8%, or 0.2% on a constant currency basis from the third quarter of 2014.
