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.
As the saying goes, "if at first you don't succeed, try and try again." This adage certainly holds true at North Park University in Chicago, where a recent renovation didn't meet the changing need of the student body, thus requiring a redesign of the space once more. AGATI took a field trip to North Park University recently to interview some of the staff and students who witnessed the change from "Ottoman Empire" to "the Age of Enlightenment."
The Architectural Record's annual RECORD Products contest named Prism by David Adjaye one of the best new products of 2015 in the Furnishings category. The magazine announced the winners in its December issue.
Big open offices are the modern—and perhaps broken—standard, but acoustically, they're nightmares: cavernous concrete bunkers where people are afraid to speak above a whisper. "No one really thinks about the quality of sound in a workplace," says Benjamin Hubert of Layer Design. "Everyone loves these huge concrete open-plan workspaces, because they're visually cool, but the sound is wearing."
At its annual dealer meeting on November 10, 2015 in Biloxi, MS,Office Furniture USA (OFUSA) awarded Mayline® Company, LLCwith the dealer association’s inaugural Dealers’ Choice Award.
Since it opened up shop in July, Opendesk has been busy making open-sourced furniture whose designs can be downloaded, tweaked and then produced locally, anywhere in the world. Last month, they kitted out the entire offices for the self-built computer brand Kano. Now they're turning their attention to developing a range of smart products that integrates technology into their furniture—starting with the humble wooden desk.
Inscape (INQ.TO) today announced its second quarter financial results ended October 31, 2015. The second quarter sales of $21.1 million demonstrated an upward trend in quarterly sales from $12.6 million in Q4 of fiscal 2015 and $15.3 million in Q1 of fiscal 2016. This represents a 66% increase from Q4 fiscal 2015.
Sandler Office announced today that the company’s mobile desking product, Nomado, captured an Interior Design magazine’s Best of Year Award in the Furniture: Contract/Desking category. Nomado is an entirely new concept in mobile desking designed by Sandler’s collaborator Martin Ballendat. Nomado is an innovative highly portable desking system, ideal for areas that require mobile workspaces. Held annually, Interior Design magazine’s Best of Year Awards recognizes the best in contract interiors for products and projects.
LES-based raw denim fiends 3sixteen advocate skilled craftsmanship and longevity—which is why they often post photos of their customers' faded, worn-in jeans after years of use. Thus, their special collaboration with design manufacturer Herman Miller makes perfect sense, as there's a shared commitment to inspiring through timeless, dependable design. Together, they've created a custom version of the iconic Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, first introduced in 1956.
Kewaunee Scientific Corporation (KEQU) today reported results for its second quarter ended October 31, 2015. Sales for the quarter were $31,037,000, a 2.6% increase from sales of $30,258,000 in the prior year. Domestic sales for the quarter were $26,279,000, up 11.2% from sales of $23,629,000 in the second quarter of last year. International sales for the quarter were $4,758,000, down 28.2% from sales of $6,629,000 in the second quarter last year.
Just released: Humanscale's 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. In their efforts to maintain a net-positive impact, the company invests time and energy in materials and health research, is actively working to reduce packaging, emissions, and energy use, and aims to be the first manufacturer in the industry to have Health Product Declarations for all products.
You work in your office every day—but is your office really working for you? As the calendar year draws to a close, it’s a good time to reevaluate your productivity levels, personal wellbeing and office culture, and make adjustments where necessary.
Italian design brand Arper has opened a New Yorkshowroom, following in the footsteps of other European brands setting up shop in the US. Arper – founded in 1989 in Italy – debuted its Manhattan store on 19 November in Soho, at 476 Broadway, near showrooms for Luceplan, Foscarini, Ingo Maurer and other leading design brands.
At Coalesse, we love learning and sharing with the design community. We are market testers and makers who look for opportunities to explore and exchange. In Toronto, we recently gathered a team of experts to discuss with Coalesse Director of Design John Hamilton how we can bring new life to meeting spaces.
BuzziSpace expands BuzziLand, its collection of high-performance hanging acoustic ceiling panels, with the introduction of BuzziLand Virgule. Like its counterparts, BuzziLand Virgile is designed to bring everyday comfort to the workspace. Ideal for large, open office spaces, it attenuates and absorbs sound.
Peter D. Greene has rejoined Dauphin North America in the role of Senior VP, Sales & Marketing. He will lead sales, marketing, design & product development for the North America Division of the German manufacturer Dauphin.
High ceilings, open-plan layouts and light-flooded rooms have transformed previously practical but dull inner-city workspaces. This change has caused a real boom in loft architecture in international cities. But even in smaller and medium-sized towns conversions of old factory facilities into offices or residential units are also popular. A company called Wortmann from Detmold in Germany has shown that even a virtually windowless warehouse, never designed to accommodate people, can be remodeled to become a light-filled office.
I'm sitting in a private work pod right now. The day is a bit dreary here in Minnesota but I have a task lamp pointed toward my keyboard. It's helping my disposition a bit. I have my feet propped up on a small blue ottoman and I'm listening to the new album by Grimes. There's a thin plastic shield surrounding me that looks exactly like something out of Star Trek. The pod is called the Steelcase Brody, and it's a wonder of workplace engineering.
National Office Furniture Inc. is expanding its Danville, Kentucky facility, creating 40 jobs and investing $530,000.
Herman Miller, Inc. Tuesday announced the opening of PortalMill, the global furniture manufacturer’s newest manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom. Located in Melksham, Wiltshire, the 170,000 sq.-ft. manufacturing and office space was designed by leading British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, and signifies Herman Miller’s continued commitment to expanding the company’s global footprint.
Tracy Wymer, Vice President Workplace, Knoll, joined Andrew O'Donnell, Ernst & Young LLP, Chris Kane, formerly of the BBC, and Derek Bock, eBay, on a panel debate at WorkTech ’15 in London. The panel, which Wymer moderated, discussed ways in which companies can stimulate innovation by bringing the right people together. The panel also addressed how workplaces that take design and programming cues from the world of hospitality can enhance the overall work experience.
