How can a global leader in commercial furniture and an American architect of international repute launch a new series years after said architect’s passing? The answer goes back to 1938, to a…
The year was 1984. The month was June, and Chicago’s Merchandise Mart was the site for NeoCon 16. Then and there was when my employer, Kimball International, introduced an executive furniture collection…
Look to the West at NeoCon 2022. This year the city of Poulsbo, in our nation’s 42nd state, Washington, raises its ranking among contract furniture centers of design excellence. Nestled among mountain…
Where’s the go-to resource that cracks the code for designing remote-work-friendly, post-pandemic, Zoom-era workplaces? Look no further than the American Society of Interior Designers and their report, “Reimagining Work: Design to Thrive.”…
What happens when design minds come together, merge their notable talents, and refresh the contract industry’s notions about furnishings? These adventuring designers shift perceptions of the possible with products that influence specifiers,…
The interior design industry’s realities, opportunities, and directions following global, pandemic-era disruption unfold in the 2021 ASID Interior Design Resiliency Report from the American Society of Interior Designers in partnership with Benjamin…
Design’s household names, like Knoll, Eames, Saarinen, and Bertoia, have something in common: they all studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Their collective works are synonymous with Mid-century design and hold a…
George Nelson did not like the idea, and he said so. The gossip, as he called it, involved Herman Miller acquiring Knoll. “I think that would be the worst thing that could…
What role can interior designers have in leading the industry? What leadership quality helps most in that role? In what state do interior designers currently earn the highest hourly rate? Even after…
To design is to choose and decide. It’s fundamental to work in other professions, but that’s where the similarities end. In design, unique influences act upon the mechanisms for choosing from alternatives…
An architect and a doctor face infectious diseases. They’re from different continents, but more than just 3,000 miles of ocean separates them. Michael Jansen, CEO and founder of Chicago-based Cityzenith, lives in…
An innovative design creates a sensation. Creating innovative designs, year after year over decades, establishes institutions. One such institution is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Familiarly called SOM, it’s easy to tag the…