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.
Net sales in the quarter totaled $582.6 million, an increase of 5.8% from the same quarter last fiscal year. New orders in the fourth quarter of $606.2 million were 8.9% above the prior year level.
Haworth white papers: sophisticated sensors could contribute to a healthier and happier workforce by tracking the way offices are used and adjusting them automatically, according to new research by US furniture giant Haworth. Used properly, the technology could turn offices into places that employees choose to be in for their overall wellbeing, says Haworth's Enabling the Organic Workspace: Emerging Technologies that Focus on People, Not Just Space white paper.
Seeing their name on a hall of fame list is the dream of many athletes, but Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes honors a different group. The Junior Achievement West Michigan Business Hall of Fame added Dick Haworth, chairman emeritus of Haworth Inc., as its laureate recipient this year.
Teknion Corporation Thursday announced that it won six prestigious awards at NeoCon. Zones, a comprehensive series of furniture that transforms the office, earned three awards including the show’s top honor – Best of Competition. The Zones Collection received a Gold Best of NeoCon in the Furniture Collections for Collaboration category. Zones benches won a Gold Best of NeoCon in the Seating: Benches category, and Zones tables earned Silver in the Conference Room Furniture category.
A manufacturer of custom prefabricated elements to be built into offices and other work spaces, DIRTT Environmental Solutions is the latest corporation to adopt virtual reality for the enterprise, rather than entertainment.
The company unveiled their ICEreality software this week at an annual construction industry trade show, NeoCon 2016, in Chicago. (Yes, tech news had the audacity to break outside of Apple’s WWDC and the video game industry’s E3 this week.)
DIRTT wants to help architects, developers, facility managers and interior designers create eco-friendly work spaces that are stylish and fit their needs.
The Knoll NeoCon showroom demonstrated the planning approaches defined by their workplace planning platform, r/evolution workplace™. Knoll now explores five distinct interior planning approaches—Immersive, Adaptive, Efficient, Core and Perimeter.
On the Chicago Theatre stage, in front of more than 700 people from DIRTT's worldwide team of distribution partners and employees, DIRTT unveiled the first-ever demonstration of ICEreality™ -- mixed reality technology for design and construction.
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Contract magazine have announced the winners of the 12th annual Showroom and Booth Design Competition at this year’s NeoCon.
David Rockwell, founder and president of Rockwell Group, presented the NeoCon 2016 Keynote on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, in Chicago. Two days after receiving a Tony Award for his scenic designs for She Loves Me, Rockwell unveiled a workplace collection with Knoll rooted in the cornerstones of Rockwell Group's practice: hospitality, user-choreographed experience, and, of course, theater.
Herman Miller today announced the company's case againstLevi Cohen and Madison Seating has been settled, and all outstanding issues have been resolved.
London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn "a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre". Sam Hecht and Kim Colin of Industrial Facility created Plex using six elements that can be combined to form armchairs, sofas, ottomans and benches.
As the rise of open-plan, coworking spaces in major urban centers continues to challenge the idea of the traditional office space, employees—and furniture—are called to adapt.
Indeed, to address the shifting needs of the new office worker, London-based design studio PearsonLloyd has expanded its collection of office furniture for Canadian brand Teknion. The Zones collection, rendered in sleek wood, aluminum, plastics, and textiles, provides various configurations promoting collaboration, privacy, and relaxation.
HNI expects to report second quarter non-GAAP net income per diluted share of $0.62 to $0.67 on a sales decrease of 6 to 8 percent over the prior year quarter.
Reflecting what may be a further intensification of seasonality in its core market of public school furniture, fixtures and equipment, Virco reported essentially flat operating results on a 10% decline in 1st quarter revenue for the period ended April 30, 2016.
OFS Brands, Inc. and Visual Magnetics enter a strategic collaboration to leverage respective capabilities and the potential impact of co-product development that the connection between the two companies can deliver. Both family-owned, the companies share many foundational elements such as a commitment to social responsibility, craftsmanship and pursuing innovative products and alliances.
Niels and I met in 1997 at a time when I was talking to designers about developing our first chair. I actually searched him out because I had asked many people how to adjust your chair and no one knew how to do it. I was looking to develop a chair that was easy to use and he was known as one of the great chair designers of the world. As we were talking, we realized we shared many of the same beliefs and both valued simplicity and ease of use. Over the years, he taught me so much, including the importance of restraint and how complicated simplicity can be to achieve. Thanks to Niels I learned that true innovation is very expensive, very unpredictable and very slow, whereas styling (which often passes for design) is inexpensive, predictable and fast. Niels and I were always only interested in the former.
Mr. Franklin and another shareholder, Charles Almond, are seeking unspecified damages, but their argument could, in theory, result in the court ordering that the merger be rescinded and DWR essentially carved out of the company. It is a long shot, but it would be a corporate do-over on a large scale.
Two years ago, when the legendary furniture manufacturer Herman Miller bought the once-troubled retailer Design Within Reach, it was largely seen as a triumph in the world of high-end furniture. Now, as the New York Times reports, a lawsuit against the Herman Miller claims that the $154 million merger never actually happened.
The lawsuit was brought by two of the company's shareholders, Andrew Franklin, president of the investment firm UTR, and Charles Almond, who claim that they lost money in the merger. But the details of the case uncovered something much larger: the accusation that, because of a series of technical mistakes, the merger is invalid.
This year at NeoCon, Coalesse invites our customers to explore the evolution of customization and participate in the design process with us. We believe that participation builds deeper customer engagement, personal enjoyment and cultural meaning.
