Salone del Mobile attracts throngs of architects, specifiers and consumers every year because the exhibitors at this famed Milan furniture fair consistently astonish with spectacular new product launches and reissues of classic designs. When all tallied, more than 300,000 people will have attended this year’s design juggernaut. And to welcome the larger-than-ever attendance, one exhibitor devised a new category of surprise: USM reinvented its iconic modular furniture system USM Haller by seamlessly integrating it with LED light.
Chromatography - Scholten & Baijings on their new sofa, textiles, and exhibition debuting at Salone del Mobile 2017
This year, at Salone del Mobile in Milan, Herman Miller and Maharam present the exhibit “Chromatography: The Colour World of Scholten & Baijings” to launch the new ColourForm Sofa Group and shine a light on our partnership with the pair of Dutch designers. Partners in life and work, Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have spent decades perfecting a droll brand of minimalism, where pattern and texture, soft colors, and subtle geometry coalesce into surprising furniture, fabrics, and objects. In addition to ColourForm, the pair will also unveil a trio of new fabrics in multiple colorways. WHY recently sat down with the couple to get their views on comfort, creativity, and why it all starts with color.
FERN & HARBOR WORK LOUNGE WIN RED DOT FOR HIGH QUALITY DESIGN
The jury has reached its decision: After several days of assessing thousands of products from all over the world, Fern and Harbor Work Lounge received the distinction “Red Dot.” With these products, Haworth has created an outstanding design that the expert committee for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017 has recognised with the internationally sought-after seal of quality.
Jasper Morrison creates "one of the most complicated chairs" of his career for Emeco
British designer Jasper Morrison will debut a collection of deceptively simple-looking seating and tables for American furniture brand Emeco at Milan design week.
Called 1 Inch, the collection includes a chair, armchair and stools in three heights as well as cafe and bar tables. Each piece features a simple frame made from a recycled, one-inch-square extruded aluminium tube that was selected for its strength-to-weight ratio.
Teknion to Lower Prices on Products in Height Adjustable Category
Teknion has announced that all pricing for height-adjustable tables and bench frames in Complements, Journal and Height-Adjustable Bench catalogs has decreased by an average of 13 percent. Revised pricing is the result of significant investments in new manufacturing tooling and processes and completing many design engineering advances. These reductions to each mechanism and product line provide very competitive price positioning in every feature category.
Teknion gets ready to Launch new Task Chair
Teknion is preparing to introduce Around, a new task chair designed by Justus Kolberg. Around was conceived to express two different looks – upholstered and mesh – executed in a uniform sculptural frame. Hidden innovations optimize function and comfort.
The Evolution of the Office: Cubicles, Open Offices, & the Next Generation
Open office design may seem like a new concept that sprang to life in offices across America at the start of the 21st century, however it actually has its roots in the early 20th century where the open office was king until the 1960’s. These early office spaces were filled with large open floor plans with rows and rows of identical desks facing the boss’s office so he could keep an eye on everyone. These “white collar factories” were designed for efficiency and to fit as many people as possible with no regard for privacy and the individual’s needs.
Modular Screens Make Open Offices More Private
The PAIS is a system of desk covers that adapt according to need. Built for open office layouts, it’s a way to customize privacy according to need. To use the PAIS, the pieces just need to be ‘peeled’ off from the wall and re-attached to the table edge. They attach through a band of magnets that run along the edge of the table and along the panels.
Customizable HUBB Modular Furniture
HUBB is a modular interior furniture concept that responds to rapidly changing environments within work and education. Developed by mecanoo and Dutch furniture company Gispen, the project explores the growing popularity of settings that host multiple programs and activities simultaneously.
Using a simple core form, HUBB comprises a series of building blocks that enables endless combinations — offering the flexibility for customization. If the spatial requirements change, the building blocks can be easily reused by adapting or expanding the configuration. every component — seating, table, canopy elements, add-ones and add in-betweens — is fully (de)mountable and reusable.
Soft Modular Sofa by Jasper Morrison for Vitra
Soft Modular Sofa is a minimal sofa created by London-based designer Jasper Morrison for Vitra. This is Jasper Morrison’s current interpretation of what has become a modern classic: the low-slung modular sofa with a decidedly horizontal emphasis. Uniting carefully composed proportions, great comfort and a conscious renunciation of decorative details, the Soft Modular Sofa exemplifies the characteristics of this sofa type in their purest form.
HON's Ignition® 2.0 | Two Minute Tutorial
Work has changed. Ignition has responded. Introducing Ignition 2.0 - the chair that comfortably, flexibly, dynamically moves with you to change the world. Learn more about the latest evolution in HON seating when you visit the spotlight page at hon.com/ignition or check out the brochure at https://www.hon.com/sites/hon.com/fil....
You Can Now Get 3D-Printed Designer Furniture That Won’t Break The Bank
At first glance the Print the Future shop in midtown Manhattan looks much like any other sleek designer homeware store. Look closer, however, and you’ll notice that the geometric stools, chunky chairs, and curvaceous settee have something rather unusual in common. They’ve all been 3D printed by a machine like the one currently whirring away in the back of the room as it makes a bright blue stool to add to this stylish display.
Power to the People: New Design Encourages Workers to Take It Outside
While all the meteorologists are focusing on the winter storm this week, we’re still setting our sights on spring with a look at the exciting new and recent products for enjoying outdoor environments. In today’s spotlight: GO from Landscape Forms.
A couple years ago, you may recall, the Kalamazoo, Michigan–based manufacturer of site furniture and lighting brought power to the people quite literally in the form of outdoor-rated all-weather charging stations created in collaboration with power receptacle brand Legrand. Now, for GO, Landscape Forms has integrated similar tech into a sleek piece of site furniture that’s geared toward public and commercial spaces.
How Companies are Addressing the Issue of F-Waste
Furniture waste (f-waste), an estimated 8.5 million ton annual trash problem, is becoming the new e-waste, according to experts. And in an effort to combat this growing waste problem, companies across the globe are developing innovative programs and initiatives for diverting f-waste from landfill.
Inscape Announces Third Quarter Results
Sales in the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 of $23.4 million were 2% higher than the previous year, while net income improved to $1.8 million or 13 cents per share compared to a net loss of $2.2 million or 15 cents per share in the same quarter of the previous year.
The office furniture of the future actually looks pretty good
There is a secret language to office furniture. The design, the size, the placement — they all communicate something. In most cases it's simply, "This work is sending me to sleep, please kill me."
That situation seems unfair, given that modern jobs are often anything but boring. Yes, we have open floor plans, but does the environment reflect the creativity that exists in even the most mundane jobs (looking at you, accounting)?
Recline Intervention
There’s a problem with recliners, one that starts with their rec room aesthetics and ends with the reclining mechanism itself. But as designers David Ritch and Mark Saffell of multidisciplinary 5d studio discovered when Herman Miller and Nemschoff asked them to design a brand-new healthcare recliner, making something that both the ailing and their caregivers could not only use but also enjoy was going to require truly putting the “multi” into “multidisciplinary.” Working with engineers and designers, they’ve produced Ava, a recliner that looks narrow but feels roomy, is inviting but also antibacterial, and that’s just as appealing to the people pushing the chair as the people sitting in it.
THE HON COMPANY ANNOUNCES MADE IN THE USA
The HON Company has revealed its commitment to a U.S. operating model that is rare in today’s commercial furniture business. Making significant investments in new state-of-the-art manufacturing and fulfillment centers, HON remains focused on manufacturing most of its products in the USA – everything from individual components to complete furniture solutions.
Humanscale RE:CHARGE Café by Todd Bracher
This April, Humanscale will bring an engaging and innovative RE:CHARGE Café concept to the Fuorisalone during Milan Design Week. The concept will offer much needed respite to design crowds who will spend the week avidly travelling the streets to see the vast range of design exhibitions, presentations, and events.
LAYER’S Pair Chair for Fritz Hansen Gets a New Update
Benjamin Hubert of design studio LAYER continues his partnership with Fritz Hansen by adding a new piece to the Pair™ collection of chairs. The initial launch of Pair™ saw a modular seating system that could create over 8,000 configurations and now they’re throwing something new into the mix of possibilities – a star base in chrome or black finishes.