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.
David Eberlein is a Coalesse product engineer who helped bring the Potrero415 Table to market. We asked David to share some insights into what makes this new product, now available for order in North America, unique.
Here are some of the reasons why Keilhauer Ltd. was selected as one of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers (2016):
Humanscale® announced that it has acquired Vessel™, an architectural lighting solution from celebrated designer Todd Bracher.
In Häfele's world, furniture and interior spaces are magic. Cabinet doors swing upwards and out of the way, drawers close themselves, surfaces appear where none were before, objects of one utility transform into objects of another. However, the company is not a furniture manufacturer, but a world leader in architectural and cabinet hardware and fittings—and the nature of their products actually provides a tricky problem for presenting at trade shows like Holz-Handwerk.
Organic revenue growth in fiscal 2016 was 3 percent. All segments posted organic revenue growth, with the Americas, EMEA and the Other category growing 3 percent, 1 percent and 4 percent, respectively.
Herman Miller has once again worked with designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin to create a versatile product with universal appeal. Following on the success of their Wireframe Sofa and the Locale system, their latest collaboration is the elegant Ode Lamp, occasional lighting perfect for almost any setting. With soft curves and a poetic grace, the Ode Lamp’s ring of anti-glare LEDs and spun steel shade creates diffused illumination, drawing people together in a welcoming pool of light.
Baillie Davis is an industrial designer in the Coalesse Design Group. She was part of the team that designed Potrero415 Tables, which will soon be available to order. In this question and answer post, she shares a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of this exciting addition to the workplace.
As the American home construction industry rebounds, one Calgary-based interior design and manufacturing company is looking to break in. DIRTT Environmental Solutions, a company that uses proprietary software to streamline interior design and office space projects, is targeting renewed growth in the U.S. construction sector to enter the residential market.
Nearly 40 years after their first collaboration, Herman Miller’s relationship with architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw continues.
Net sales in the quarter totaled $536.5 million, an increase of 3.9% from the same quarter last fiscal year. New orders in the third quarter of $508.8 million were 1.7% above the prior year level. On an organic basis, which adjusts for foreign currency translation, net sales and orders in the third quarter increased 5.5% and 3.3%, respectively, from the same quarter last fiscal year.
Revenue for the quarter increased by $7.0 million, or 12.2%, over Q4 2014, to $65.0 million, and increased by $49.3 million, or 26.3%, to $236.6 million for 2015, compared with fiscal 2014.
"The second half of the year was particularly strong as we saw reduced business volatility, evidenced by consistent order entry, steady manufacturing volumes and favorable product mix, which all contributed to improved margins," said Derek Payne, CFO of DIRTT.
Workspace Studio has recently opened in Bucharest the first Herman Miller showroom in Sky Tower office building. Basically, the worldwide known chairs can be seen and tested within this showroom in order to decide what is best for you and your employees. For those who visit MOMA Museum online or offline, even the outstanding Aeron chair is available in there.
In keeping with the company’s classic modern DNA, Knoll’s newest showroom and office in Houston brims with a mix of thoughtful and elegant answers to these questions. Knoll chose to move its showroom to the ninth floor of the San Felipe Place office tower in the River Oaks neighborhood, just west of downtown Houston. Designed by New York–based Architecture Research Office (ARO), the new 8,000-square-foot regional headquarters offers unfettered city views through floor-to-ceiling glazing, with the bonus of an expansive terrace that allows employees to work and socialize outside amid a variety of Knoll’s outdoor furnishings.
Swedish furniture firm ROL USA, Inc. plans to build a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Holland Township, Michigan, a $19.8 million investment expected to create 51 new jobs in the next two years.
Ford Motor said today it’s forming a new subsidiary, Ford Smart Mobility LLC, based in Palo Alto, Calif., and said one of its directors, former Steelcase chief executive James Hackett, would step down from the board to lead the group. Putting a furniture executive in charge of mobility might seem like an oxymoron, but Hackett is recognized as an innovator in office space who helped change the way people work. During his 30 years at Steelcase, he helped transform the company from a traditional office furniture manufacturer to a designer of cutting-edge workspaces, shifting away from cubicles, for example, to an open space environment, giving employees the flexibility to work where they want.
Inscape reported sales of $22.9 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2016, a 36% increase from $16.9 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2015.
ergoCentric Seating Systems and Scandinavian Business Seating announced an agreement under which effective immediately ergoCentric will be the exclusive Canadian distributor for the Scandinavian Business Seating brands HÅG and RBM.
ergoCentric will initially offer the award-winning HÅG Capisco, HÅG Capisco Puls® and HÅG Conventio Wing®. The renowned HÅG Capisco saddle chair was designed by Peter Opsvik over 30 years ago.
The Artopex showrooms located in Quebec City and Montreal were honored at the 9th edition of the Grands Prix du design, recently held in Montreal.
The Quebec City showroom was awarded in the “Showroom” category. The jury remarked that “the showroom reflects the company’s values well and is an asset to the neighborhood. It expertly translates theexcellent ideas developed in the Montreal showroom to the Quebec City space.”
The ingredients that go into baking up a business are key to its long-term success. First, there needs to be a tasty product. Timing is critical to get the company to rise. There needs to be a hunger for what is created. And the business needs to be in the right location to capitalize on the market.
Steelcase CEO Jim Keane discusses why the C-Suite needs to take sustainability seriously, and the value Steelcase has unlocked by rethinking its products, their life-cycle, and even the company's business model in Phoenix at GreenBiz 16.
