A crop of new startups are racing to reinvent the cubicle, catering to businesses that want more private space for their employees.
Cubicles are back, and we have open plan offices to thank
SDI showcases WRKkit flexible office system as life-size kit of parts
Canadian design studio SDI has presented its WRKkit concept for adaptable offices at IDS Toronto, using a booth modelled on a giant DIY toy.
Tracking Office Trends with West Elm: Design Q+A
What Steelcase's Management Wants Investors to Know
As the nature of work in professional offices shifts toward flexible spaces that can be reconfigured on the fly to either induce collaboration or provide privacy, manufacturers like Steelcase, which specialize in such furnishings, stand to win significant project business.
Perspectives From Herman Miller's Management
In the fiscal second quarter, Herman Miller's consumer business outpaced North America, ELA, and the specialty segment, achieving a 14.5% year-over-year growth rate to book nearly $100 million in revenue over the last three months.
Coalesse Turns 10 and Continues to Turn Heads
Coalesse still lives by its founding belief it can be internationally relevant by creating great, live-work spaces and partnering with world-class designers.
Herman Miller posts single digit revenue increase for the latest quarter
Net sales in the quarter totaled $652.6 million, an increase of 7.9% from the same quarter last fiscal year.
2 chairs cited in Williams-Sonoma lawsuit no longer found on Amazon.com
This includes two chairs sold by subsidiary West Elm, including the Orb dining chair which West Elm launched in December 2016 and the Slope leather swivel office chair, which West Elm launched in June 2016.
A LIFE IN CHAIRS WITH INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER DON CHADWICK
In a career spanning six decades, the meticulous Los Angeles–based industrial designer has worked tirelessly to devise fewer than a dozen commercial objects.
Steelcase posts double digit revenue gain in latest quarter
Revenue increased 17 percent, or 13 percent on an organic basis, in the third quarter compared to the prior year.
Collaboration Trends for Small Businesses by The HON Company
Many variables need to be considered when investing in office space and the furniture you place in that space.
Groupe Lacasse Acquires Via Seating
The Groupe Lacasse Board of Directors is proud to announce the acquisition of Via Seating, a designer and manufacturer of high quality commercial seating products based in Sparks, NV, USA.
In open office hell? This company will sell you a safe haven
Kettal, a furniture company based in Barcelona, Spain, has focused on outdoor furnishings since 1996. But the company’s latest collection puts its 22 years of experience in organizing outdoor spaces to good use indoors–fixing the hell that is the open plan office, which reduces productivity, enforces sexism, and alienates workers, just so companies can save money on real estate.
DWR Contract Opens a New Showroom in Dallas
This is the second showroom for the commercial division of modern furniture retailer Design Within Reach.
Wayfair Professional is Coming to a Bid Near You
From a product mix standpoint, Wayfair Professional is following a similar strategy as its business-to-consumer side.
Steelcase Introduces the new west elm Work Collection
Since announcing in June that they would be working together, Steelcase and west elm have teamed up to offer an initial suite of products designed to help create inspiring, high-performance places where people love to work. These products will be available in the U.S. and Canada in mid-December 2018.
Knoll Reports Continued 2018 Momentum With Strong 3rd Quarter Results
Net sales were $327.7 million for the third quarter of 2018, an increase of 12.5% from the third quarter of 2017.
’60s cubicles are back to destroy your open office
Italian company Arper had a great idea: Create a line of elegant cubicles to divide the hell that is the open office. They look really cool–but wait, haven’t we seen this before?
VITRA soft work sofa system by barber & osgerby replaces the desk archetype
Returning to Orgatec 2018 to further their ideas on the future of work, VITRA debuts the ‘soft work’ sofa system by Barber & Osgerby.
HNI Corporation Reports Earnings for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2018
Third quarter office furniture net sales increased $6.4 million or 1.4 percent from the prior year quarter to $471.7 million.