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.
We stopped by west elm WORKSPACE during Neocon to find out more about their upcoming products and their innovative philosophy of “unofficing” the office—bringing it back to people and humanizing the workplace. Plus, we got a peek at the new products, launching in 2018.
Koleksiyon, an international office furniture manufacturer, announced its expansion into the Australia market through an exclusive partnership with JEB Group in Sydney.
Renowned Danish architect and designer Finn Juhl introduced the 57 Sofa back in 1957 at Tivoli Gardens and some 40 years passed before before any attention was brought back to the design. It wasn’t until Juhl’s widow, Hanne Wilhelm Hansen, asked Onecollection in 1998 to make one of the sofas for an exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of his passing. Hansen was so happy with the results that she allowed Onecollection to relaunch the design, which eventually led to the company relaunching more than 40 of Finn Juhl’s designs over time.
Open-source furniture brand Opendesk has collaborated with designers in London and Chicago to create new two pieces of furniture that can be assembled without glue, screws or hinges.London-based Opendesk – whose business model is based around an online database of designs for digital fabrication – worked with London-based Thor ter Kulve to create a workstation based on Japanese joinery techniques.
Cubicles are universally panned as a symbol of cloistered office culture and soul-sucking corporate standardization. But in the hands of designer Francesc Rifé, an office in a cube becomes something nostalgically precious.
As the office environment and the technology workers use are changing at a rapid pace, the office chair and desk remain much the same as the centrepiece of any office. However, while many organizations focus on the design and layout of the desk and furniture systems, the office chair can be an afterthought. It shouldn’t be, considering the amount of time that a typical employee sits in the chair doing work: more than 1,600 hours per year assuming a typical eight-hour workday including breaks.
Live OS connects Herman Miller furnishings to the cloud through sensors. This allows the desks to “sense” people and their preferences, resulting in a better experience overall.
Brazilian architecture firm SUBdV have designed and created a custom office reception area for Monashees+ Venture Capital, that features a lounge setting that appears futuristic and aero-dynamic.
Net sales in the quarter totaled $577.2 million, a decrease of 0.9% from the same quarter last fiscal year. New orders in the fourth quarter of $568.1 million were 6.3% below the prior year level. For the full fiscal year, net sales were $2.28 billion, reflecting a year-over-year increase of 0.6%. On an organic basis, net sales increased by 1.4% compared to last fiscal year. Diluted earnings per share for the full year totaled $2.05 compared to $2.26 last year. On an adjusted basis, diluted earnings per share totaled $2.16 in fiscal 2017 compared to $2.17 in fiscal 2016.
Influenced by the blurring of home and work environments, RCA graduate Andrea Mestre has designed an office chair made from rattan.
The love for African touch designs as is currently the wave with a number of Kenyans embracing kitenge designs for attires and ladies going all natural with hairstyles, has just gone a notch higher with office furniture.
There’s so much talk these days about how inactivity brought on by too much sitting at work can cause a multitude of health issues, which is why standing desks have become so popular. If you’re not quite ready to take the standing approach, perhaps you can change how you sit. Muista looks more like a stool, but it allows your body to stay more active by allowing for different sitting positions. Aurimas Lazinskas came up with the idea and brought in Saulius Sestavickas to collaborate on the design of Muista in hopes of improving workplace health and creativity.
LUNAR cofounders Jeff Smith and Gerard Furbershaw sought to create a sculpturally oriented bench that provided social interaction opportunities for passersby in outdoor public places and museum and gallery exhibition spaces. People have an innate desire to engage, interact and play, yet there are a limited number of public spaces that enable this. Smith and Furbershaw looked to the playground seesaw for inspiration, as most people have experienced this form of interactive play as children.
At least, as you know it. Sensor-studded office desks and chairs will monitor your every move—and alert your boss when you no longer need a permanent workspace.
Office Depot, Inc. today debuted the latest in seating options – the Serta® iComfort® for WorkPro® i5000 collection of chairs. The brand collaboration between Serta and WorkPro "brings top-of-the-line technology for utmost comfort while working."
While they may resemble the old, mid-century mission control panels from NASA, these switches are all modern. From Brooklyn-based lighting studio Juniper, Ground Control is a series of surface-mounted power accessories – double USB charger, electrical plug, toggle switch, and dimmer knob – for all of your latest lighting and tech gear, but re-imagined with a bit of NASA nostalgia.
Despite growing operational complexity and a period of industry-led change, office furniture suppliers say they remain optimistic.
Neither a move to short-run mass customization, a “mix shift” of product types, talent shortages in an era of near full employment nor the effects on trade from domestic political upheaval can faze the battle-tested supplier executives who weathered the Great Recession. Still, they’re focused on improving their operations, further diversifying their customer base and embracing new challenges in data management, to name just a few.
This past week, Gensler’s Product Design practice debuted several new products at NeoCon 2017, which took place June 12-14 at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago. In total, Gensler collaborated on 11 new products that launched in Chicago ranging from textiles to lounge seating and sit/stand desks.
Research shows that working outdoors can increase creativity and productivity. Whether for socializing or quiet concentration, outdoor settings are prime destinations where we connect, collaborate and rejuvenate. They are the natural extension of great workplaces.
Office superstore Staples has recalled 124,000 Hazen Mesh Task office chairs due to a potential fall hazard.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall on Tuesday, saying that the legs on the base of the chair can break, posing a fall hazard.
