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.
Lender GemCap is auctioning Harden's assets in an Article 9 auction, which puts Harden's equity stake in jeopardy. Harden or other Harden family members would have to be among the successful bidders.
You can purchase a wide variety of office furniture on Amazon.com, including modern standing desks and computer work stations. But if you want to work like an actual employee of the e-commerce giant, you’ll want to take a seat at a door desk.
Murray never set out to design furniture. He got his start in 1969 when he stated running his father's office furniture business after his father suffered a heart attack. He was in his 20s and he wanted to experience more before committing his life to the industry.
While the Grand Rapids-based Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) does not track industry investments in automation, Executive Director Tom Reardon said anecdotal evidence suggests that companies are investing more in the technology as a result of the current labor shortage.
A year of hard work culminated with the final CBRE Furniture Forum in Chicago this past November, and left us wondering: what’s next for CBRE’s Julie Deignan and Contract Consulting Group’s Amanda Schneider?
The Surface Hub installation was part of a larger engagement in which Tangram provided workspace and technology integration for nine private offices, an executive conference room, task seating, reception furniture and lounge furniture.
As companies look to boost employee engagement, they’re revamping the workplace to bring more communal spaces into the mix for creative collaboration and social connection.
By definition, the contract furniture industry embodies a certain level of customization. Making the statement that customization is on the rise is a bit of an oxymoron, then, isn’t it? Not exactly.
Barber Osgerby’s idea for a calm office chair was, of course, catnip for Ive, who has strived to make Apple’s design so simple as to seem “inevitable.”
The Orange County Economic Development Partnership struck a deal with Indiana furniture manufacturer Jasper Group, who will buy the 1.2 million square foot Paoli plant. The facility will become Jasper's largest manufacturing operation.
Allsteel Inc. has won a 2017 GOOD DESIGN award in the furniture category for Retreat, a collection of space-defining lounge pieces.
As workplace design increasingly takes cues from homes and hotels, contract companies are adapting by strategically pairing up with residential and lighting brands.
The Pacific has already racked up what might be the highest honor any design can receive in 2017: Its first customer was Jony Ive, Apple Inc.’s chief design officer.
North America continues to control the largest piece of the pie when it comes to the global contract furniture market, with consumption of office, education and healthcare furniture estimated at $18.41 billion in 2016, the most recent figures published by BIFMA/IHS Markit.
Revenue in the Americas was negatively impacted by a significant decline in day-to-day business from large customers. Orders in the Americas declined approximately 6 percent in the third quarter compared to the prior year, and backlog at the end of the quarter in the Americas was approximately 7 percent lower than the prior year.
Downtown Los Angeles is back and attracting architecture and design firms. That means office furniture makers are returning as well.
Sales in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 were $23.2 million, 16% lower than the same quarter of the previous year. The company posted a net loss of $2.6 million or 18 cents per share.
