The latest video on Fern: The Haworth Fern chair was designed to feel more human than machine.
9to5 Seating Launches New Brand Campaign
9to5 Seating launches new brand campaign to underline its dedicated approach to providing quality and value to its customers, by ingraining the approach in every aspect of its operation.
Comment: What’s happening to the office furniture market?
It has been a choppy few months for those operating in the office furniture market, as Knoll’s Q2 earnings showed last week.
A Minimalist Table Inspired by Classroom Desks from KROFT
Doodle Table is a minimalist table created by Toronto-based designer Dustin Kroft of KROFT. The designer prides himself in handcrafting pieces with honest materials based on a design language inspired by the purity that comes from a commitment to purpose and function.
Ophelis Sum: A Modular Seating System Based Around Three Elements
Studio Grosch are the designers behind a brand-new, modular seating system named ophelis sum. The concept is composed of three core elements – base, partition, and pillow – that can be combined and added in various ways enabling a variety of seating islands in a room
Kimball Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 Results
Orders received during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017 were flat with the prior year fourth quarter, with increases in the education vertical (up 18%), the government vertical (up 11%), the finance vertical (up 9%), offsetting declines in the healthcare vertical (down 13%) and the commercial vertical (down 12%).
Phusei introduces moving walls
Phusei is a respected high-end furniture dealership that provides intelligent solutions tailored to meet the needs of its clients.
Adorable Lego sets lets you build retro desktops
Legos—they’re not just for kids. Real architects use them to build recreations of iconic masterworks, and artists like to use them, too. Take Chris McVeigh, for instance, a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based author, illustrator, and photographer, who uses the iconic plastic bricks to create all manner of delightful vignettes.
Object of the Moment: Irys by Clestra Hauserman
This freestanding, modular kit is created in a collaboration between HOK Product Design and Clestra Hauserman, and distributed in North America by Steelcase.
Herman Miller's DWR Contract Opens Showroom in the Boston Design Center
DWR Contract (DWRC), a division of modern furniture retailer Design Within Reach, today announces the opening of its first contract showroom in the country. The space, in the Boston Design Center (BDC), will serve commercial and hospitality clients in New England and marks an increased market presence for the company's fast-growing business segment.
The Human Side of Modern Craft
Handcrafted items are experiencing resurgence in popular culture, but many of today's workspaces are void of craft. Inspired by the Maker Movement, Coalesse is redefining modern craft with new materials and methods that artfully disrupt norms and humanize the workpla
There’s a trillion-dollar global black market for fake “designer” chairs
Last year, US customs officers seized over $4 million worth of fake chairs. It was the first year that the agency had ever seized containers-full of such unauthorized reproductions, thanks in part to a novel new training that’s turning port inspectors into design connoisseurs.
Another Country launches furniture designed to make offices feel more like home
Another Country's adjustable Work Series furniture is designed to combat perceptions of the office as "cold and clinical".
HON Launches Empower Benching System
The HON Company has introduced a new benching system in the first phase of a strategy to address the changing needs of the open plan work environment. Empower is a competitively priced benching solution designed to be simple in every way, from ease of specification and ordering to quick installation and efficient power management.
DOES SIT-TO-STAND WORKING IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELLNESS AT WORK?
Sit-to-stand working is one of the biggest office trends of recent years, but the motivation behind the movement is over 60 years old.
Ideas of a relationship between health and sitting first appeared in the 1950s. Cutting-edge research explored the heart attack risks of London bus drivers and bus conductors - finding that the sedentary drivers were twice as likely to suffer a heart attack than their more active conductor counterparts.
8 Standing Desks That Will Have You Ditching Your Chair
It’s no surprise that more and more people are making the jump to standing desks with all the research out there proving that too much sitting is bad for our health.
Playful Seating Inspired by Log Cabins
Do you remember Lincoln Logs from when you were a kid? That’s what immediately comes to mind, well that and log cabins, when taking a look at the Cabin Lounges from DesignByThem. Sarah Gibson & Nicholas Karlovasitis, who go by GibsonKarlo, are the founders of DesignByThem and their latest release features armchairs, lounges, ottomans, and a booth, all of which look as if they were built like a log cabin, hence their name.
INSPIRING DESIGN: HOW CUSTOM MATERIALS ENRICH THE WORKPLACE
Space designs that integrate personalized colors, patterns and materials can greatly influence how the space affects those who work there. And carefully curated materials can carry benefits that closely align with many clients’ strategic goals.
Scott Wilson Re-Envisions the Rocker for HBF
Scott Wilson, of design firm MNML, takes the idea of the age-old rocker and elevates it by giving it a modern spin. Designed for HBF, the Fulton Rocker is a sleek, contemporary rocking chair with a generous upholstered seat and wooden accents giving it a timeless silhouette.
KOLEKSIYON CONTINUES ITS GLOBAL EXPANSION THROUGH A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH VANGUARD INTERIORS IN SINGAPORE
Koleksiyon, an international office furniture manufacturer, announced its expansion into Singapore market through a partnership with Vanguard Interiors.