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.
Schmidt is no stranger to the office furniture industry. Prior to joining Indiana Furniture, she was the Director of Marketing for Paoli Office Furniture, a Creative Catalyst and Innovation Strategist for Chicago-based Bamboo Worldwide, and spent over 10 years at Kimball International working as a Market Research Manager for National Office Furniture and, more recently, as the Director of Market Communications for Kimball Office.
Humanscale, announced that Leena Jain has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer. Jain comes from L’Oréal, a company renowned for its marketing prowess, where she had a 12-year career, most recently as a Vice President of Marketing.
A.J. Paron-Wildes, National Architectural and Design Manager for Allsteel, is a presenter at SXSW EDU, the education component of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) family of conferences and festivals, to be held March 5–8 in Austin.
BIFMA: Business + Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association has appointed Humanscale’s Sustainability Officer, Jane Abernethy, as Vice Chair of the group’s Sustainability Committee.
Contract magazine named Joan Blumenfeld, design principal in the New York office of Perkins+Will, as the 2018 Legend Award recipient at the 39th Annual Interiors Awards in New York in January 2018.
Kamprad created a store — as a teenager mind you — that today has more than 400 locations, revenues of $62 billion, and a cultural ubiquity that very few consumer products could ever hope to attain.
Kourtney Smith will succeed Kevin McCoy as President, National Office Furniture. Kathy Sigler will succeed Kourtney as President, Kimball Hospitality.
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.
Hackett views issues in the "now," "near" and "far," likening the view to a bull's-eye with those words in concentric circles. His job, he says, is to manage Ford in each of those circles to ensure success.
Newly-appointed vice-president at HKS Hospitality Group, Chin Lim, brings with him almost 20 years' experience in the hospitality design industry. We caught up with him to find out more about his prestigious portfolio, ambitions for his new role, and thoughts on the future direction of hospitality design.
As the former head of Steelcase then the University of Michigan Athletics department, Hackett picked a football coach who has lost to its biggest rivals 5 out of 6 times. In fact they haven't beaten OSU in 2,236 days. Despite that, Ford's new CEO Jim Hackett is propelling the 115-year-old company into the future while respecting its celebrated past. Will his team ever win?
Mary Murphy is the Senior Vice President of Design at Maharam, which she joined in 1992 after a stint at Herman Miller. The New York-based brand has been a prominent force in the textile world since 1902 and was acquired by Herman Miller in 2013.
From missteps, to mishaps to inevitable self-doubt, the creative process isn’t for the faint of heart. But instead of succumbing to the pressure, Spanish designer and architect Patricia Urquiola embraces the chaos of creativity.
Based on data from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2011 to 2016, the data shows how people tend to switch out of some industries more frequently than others.
FINE works with clients to tactically help clarify a company’s brand and bring it to fruition, both cosmetically and operationally.
Jan Johnson, vice president of Design and Workplace Resources at Allsteel, is a key speaker at the CoreNet Global Summit in Seattle, November 5–7.
In the new book "Barber Osgerby Projects," the design firm delves into several of its iconic works, from the Tip Ton Chair to the 2012 London Summer Olympics torch.
On Wednesday, October 4, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) announced that Gabrielle Bullock, IIDA, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP, was appointed as the president-elect for the 2017-2018 IIDA International Board.
Molteni&C is a family-run design house founded over 80 years ago by Angelo Molteni, which also now includes Unifor (office furniture), Dada (kitchens), and Citterio (partition walls and office furniture), all under the Gruppo Molteni umbrella.
