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 were $294.7 million for the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 9.7%, from the second quarter of 2015. Net sales for the Office segment were $179.3 million during the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 11.4%. The increase in the Office segment was led by continued growth in our core systems portfolio, as well as increases in complementary products."
A Los Angeles-based office furniture manufacturer said it will move its Midwest distribution center from Indiana to Aurora, Illinois.
Cherryman Industries, which makes high-end, environmentally friendly office furniture, recently signed a lease for a 160,000-square-foot facility at 2413 Prospect Drive in Aurora, IL, according to Chicago-based commercial real estate advisory firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
Italian brands create "too many products that look the same", says Giulio Cappellini, whose furniture company is making a comeback under new owner Haworth.
"Sometimes looking into Italian design, I see too many products that look the same, even when they're produced by different companies," he said. "It is very important to work on strong products – products that can maybe be copied 80 per cent but not 100 per cent."
Office Furniture sales decreased $22.5 million or 5.0 percent to $428.1 million. Sales for the quarter decreased in North America contract and International businesses partially offset by an increase in the supplies-driven channel. The acquisition and divestitures of small office furniture related companies increased sales $6.5 million compared to the prior year quarter. On an organic basis, sales decreased 6.4 percent.
Germany’s tangled 20th-century history is reflected in its multiple sites of memory and heritage – including that of the revered Bauhaus design school. In Dessau-Roßlau, in Saxony-Anhalt, is the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. It was founded post-reunification and is housed in the rebuilt, Gropius-designed iconic modernist building that bears the school’s famous typography on the outside wall. The foundation undertakes design education, as well as researching and conserving the Bauhaus tradition.
The Be Original fellows are continuing their whirlwind tour of leading design companies and Be Original Americas members across the U.S. Our third update from them follows, courtesy of Karina Campos—stay turned for the final update!
Herman Miller, the iconic furniture design company behind the Eames and Aeron office chairs, has turned to 3D printing to slash development time. The American company behind the legendary Aeron chair that has a place in the Museum of Modern Art and the Eames that has been copied around the world, is a natural partner for the likes of Stratasys. It is a design-led company that needs to create endless prototypes to refine its concepts into the perfect finished product.
Heinz Dittmann, the last remaining founding partner of Three H Office Furniture Systems, passed away on Sunday, July 3 at age 89.
Quick -- pop quiz! More education funding plus smaller class sizes equals better test scores, right? Wrong. Foreign students continue to outperform Americans on all manner of tests: literacy, math, technological knowledge, even everyday skills. That's despite the fact that the United States spends more than $15,000 a year to educate each student from kindergarten through college -- $6,000 more than the average for other economically advanced countries. U.S. schools also reduced average class sizes by over 13 percent between 2000 and 2010; classes are now smaller here than in other similarly situated countries.
After news leaked that they would be recalling up to 29 million chests and drawers in the wake of the third child death in three years, Ikea USA president Lars Petersson described the recall as "unprecedented" in the company's history. But the massive recall wasn't just unprecedented for Ikea: It marks the largest furniture safety recall in American history, according to data provided to Co.Design by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC).
In fact, looking at the top five furniture recalls in American history, it's not even close. The Ikea recall is three times bigger than the second largest recall in the CSPC's archives—and that recall was spread across an entire industry. Yet a look at the largest furniture recalls in U.S. history reveals that the last two decades have seen plenty of other large-scale recalls, if not quite as huge as Ikea's. Trigger alert: This list is likely to give new parents panic attacks.
The re-edition of the 1949 Eames Coffee Table, which was developed by Vitra in cooperation with the Eames Office, evokes the spirit of the early one-off pieces: fabricated in exquisite materials, this high-quality coffee table is both precious object and utilitarian furnishing. The square or rectangular table tops are made of palisander veneer, marble or solid American walnut. The base, combining black wooden legs with metal cross-struts, provides a stable understructure and emphasises the understated elegance of the Eames Coffee Table.
Will become available in August 2016.
As the ongoing debate on the merits or pitfalls of the open office has shown, there’s no “one size fits all” solution for workplace design. Leading companies know that customized solutions support the unique needs and tasks of their employees and feature inspiring details that help build company culture.
Office Depot, Inc., a global provider of office products, services, and solutions, through its Office Depot and OfficeMax brands, today announced the launch of the newly branded Workspace Interiors by Office Depot, an interiors solution provider. Workspace Interiors by Office Depot offers businesses of any size comprehensive support through every stage of an office renovation, from concept to completion. Office Depot also announced a partnership with Inscape.
Steelcase was recognized today as one of the most community-minded companies in the nation as a part of the Civic 50, an initiative of Points of Light that sets the standard for corporate civic engagement and creates a roadmap for companies seeking to best use their time, talent and resources to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business.
Herman Miller Inc, known for its high-tech office furniture and as the inventor of the office cubicle, had factored Brexit into its contingency planning for this year among other global risks, trimming its budgets and "not overfilling open positions" while awaiting the vote, Chief Executive Brian Walker said.
With DWR results "not only disappointing, it's just not acceptable and we can't be there for long," Herman Miller yesterday began selling task chairs directly on Amazon, terming it "a great marketing step." Previously certain task seating models were available from other resellers, but as of today, Herman Miller is an official Amazon seller.
Annual sales increased by 15% year over year - 3 more West Elm Workspace with Inscape showrooms open this quarter - 5 more Platinum Dealers added during the fourth quarter.
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Steelcase sales post a 1.9% year over year increase. The company reported first quarter revenue of $718.8 million and net income of $19.4 million, or diluted earnings per share of $0.16. Excluding restructuring costs, adjusted earnings were $0.18 per share. In the prior year, Steelcase reported $705.5 million of revenue, diluted earnings of $0.16 per share and adjusted earnings of $0.17 per share.
