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.
HON’s Coordinate Standing Height Bases have turned the corner! Along with the existing 2-leg/3-stage model, you can now select a 3-leg/3-stage model that can be used in L-shaped configurations. Supporting the increasing popularity of sit-to-stand workstations, Coordinate Height Adjustable Bases deliver a healthier style of working by allowing a seamless transition between sitting and standing throughout the day.
DIRTT announced Wednesday it was awarded a contract to build the interiors of 16 residential units for medical staff in Barrow, Alaska, providing the remote community with its first and only adaptable solution to its current housing crisis.
Knoll, Inc., a constellation of design-driven brands and people, will introduce new products by Rockwell Group and Box Clever at NeoCon 2016, the contract industry trade show that will take place in Chicago from June 13 – 15.
Virco Mfg. Corporation Friday reported significantly improved operating and net income and stronger cash flow on moderately improved revenue for the Company’s fiscal year ended January 31, 2016.
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.
Humanscale, a company long-dedicated to incorporating sustainable practices in their manufacturing processes, will be committing to the International Living Future Institute’s Living Product Challenge with their Float sit/stand desk and Diffrient Smart task chair in 2016. The only contract furniture brand to participate in the challenge, this represents a significant undertaking on behalf of the manufacturer and signals a message to the industry that a net positive impact is not only an important and achievable aim for the brand, but something the industry as a whole should be working towards.
At the beginning of 2016, Allseating became an Industry Partner of the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD). A non-profit founded ten years ago, NIHD aims to integrate clinical expertise and planning into the design of healthcare environments—specifically through the involvement of experienced nurses.
The “Life at Herman Miller” series gives an inside look at what it’s like to work with Herman Miller through the unique stories of the people who know us best. This installment features Keva Thomas.
Watch this great interactive tour of B&B's showroom in Milan, filled with both contract and residential furniture.
Pennsylvania-based chair company EMECO is recognized for their chair designs that incorporate post-industrial and consumer waste materials within its fabrication. Founded in 1944, their lightweight, non-corrosive, fire resistant and torpedo proof chairs were made originally for the US Navy. The utilization of sustainable and innovative techniques allow the pieces to last at least a hundred and fifty years. For the occasion of 2016 salone del mobile, Emeco has launched their ‘Run Collection’, designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of industrial facility.
There’s something refreshing about a design practice that doesn’t engage with the all-consuming, black-hole hype machine that has swallowed up the design industry. The only black hole in Hella Jongerius’s design studio in Berlin is a faceted, spiky doughnut made of triangular planes and painted an industrial noir so deep it pulls light into it. There’s no hype, no starlight so bright as to blind. That there easily could be, given Jongerius’s standing among today’s most influential designers, makes its absence all the more sweet.
Poltrona Frau Group and Haworth announced Monday that it has reached an agreement for the acquisition of the majority share of the American group JANUS et Cie, leader in the premium contemporary outdoor and interior furniture sector.
KI’s award-winning range of educational seating products has been chosen to take pride of place in one of Scotland’s largest colleges. 14,000 individual products across 400 different product lines will be used by City of Glasgow College staff and students in their Riverside Campus on the banks of the River Clyde and will be seen in their new City Campus when it opens in summer 2016.
Based in Grand Rapids, MI, and with offices in New York City, Drop Drop Studios is a creative studio specializing in video production, photography, web and social. With award-winning short films to their credit, their visual artists bring stories to life by evoking emotion, capturing the essence of the human struggle and celebrating the joys that bind us together.
Milan 2016: Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created a system of smart modular seats that can be adjusted with an app or hand gestures into different configurations (+ movie). Carlo Ratti Associati's Lift-Bit furniture system, which the studio claims is the world's first Internet-of-Things sofa, is part of a range of new interactive products for Swiss furniture brand Vitra.
Michael Anastassiades is fixated on quality. Or as he puts it less mildly, “I’ve always been obsessed with perfection.” So much so that in 2007 the designer was driven to launch his own brand, and put to rest his ongoing concerns over materials, manufacturing, marketing, and so on. And the work is indeed impeccable—to the point where describing it seems as futile an exercise as trying to explain what a Bach cello suite sounds like or what a perfectly fried egg tastes like.
Coinciding with Salone del Mobile 2016, Herman Miller presents “The Double Dream of Spring,” an environmental installation by Michael Anastassiades. To debut his inaugural collection of occasional furnishings created exclusively for Herman Miller, the designer has conceived an enigmatic environment inspired by the tradition of metaphysical surrealism and steeped in his own minimalist aesthetic.
Read more and watch a video of the designer at hermanmiller.com >
I’m sitting inside Apple’s Alves Caffè Macs in Cupertino, a cathedral of glass that serves as a private cafeteria and informal meeting area for Apple employees. Despite the open view from the outside, you can’t get in unless you’re an employee or an invited guest. Fortunately, Design Milk was offered an invitation, and I’ve been whisked through the cavernous dining hall to gawk at the precisely fitted sheets of stone, metal, and wood representative of the Apple aesthetic. The scale of the space is startling upon entry, accentuated by a nearly empty interior at this particular hour, alongside the tasteful restraint of the furnishings within (I approvingly note the selection of Naoto Fukasawa-designed armchairs strewn throughout).
Herman Miller, Inc. has been named a 2020 Women on Boards Winning Company. Companies selected for this recognition are considered champions of board diversity with 20 percent or more of their board seats occupied by women.
