NeoCon 2015 Preview – Products Part 4 (Floor 11)

The ECONYL® Global Collection includes 138 solution-dyed colors, allowing carpet manufacturers and end users to design more than 10,000 possible color combinations. ECONYL® carpet fibers are made from 100 percent regenerated Nylon 6 and are manufactured using reclaimed nylon waste materials from around the world – such as used carpets and abandoned fishing nets. www.aquafilusa.com

Kalos Collection. The word Kalos is Greek for beautiful. This four-pattern collection includes patterns Key, Column, Lyre and Delphi draws its inspiration from Greek art, architecture and music. Each of the four patterns is offered in 13 coordinated colorways. The palette for this group includes a range of sophisticated neutrals as well as modern brights. www.arc-com.com/kalos

Elevate® is a vinyl plank flooring with a thin top layer of real wood, whereas traditional Luxury Vinyl Flooring (LVT), uses print film. With Elevate®, you actually see real wood grain and design. Making each Elevate® vinyl/wood floor unique. www.bolyu.com

The Series C Elite Collection includes a choice of three desk designs in a broad range of sizes complemented by non-handed bridge/return options, universal hutches, filing and storage. Coordinating height adjustable tables, bookcases and conference solutions are also available. www.bbffits.mobi

The Landscape Collection – comprises three patterns – Balance, Contact and Synergy inspired by images from contemporary fashion houses and couture catwalks displaying cleverly tailored jackets using oversized plaids. The wool based collection, designed and manufactured at the Camira mill, is available in a palette built upon soft mélange shades, blurring the boundaries between contract and domestic. www.camirafabrics.com/us

 

Natural Blends is a collection of two patterns, Main Line Flax and Century manufactured from wool, flax and up-cycled jute – they continue Camira’s progress in the design and manufacture of fabrics made from blends of bast fiber and wool. Main Line Flax, made from a 70-30 wool-flax blend, is a sustainable take on Camira’s all-time best-selling fabric Main Line Plus. Century is an on-trend houndstooth design featuring wool and jute from recycled coffee sacks. www.camirafabrics.com

Fifth Avenue Booth Seating delivers a modern, yet classic aesthetic. Available in single-booth, double-booth and quarter-circle configurations with a wide array of upholstery materials to facilitate most functional and aesthetic needs. www.falconproducts.com

Intermix Work is a simple-to-spec product platform that can be used to create an agile, open team environment. This minimalistic approach is adaptable to personal and shared spaces, informal or focused environments. Easy maneuvering makes it a snap to group and regroup throughout the day. www.ofsbrands.com

The Briefing Table Collection meets the needs of today’s workplace, where flexible and often spontaneous collaboration plays an increasingly important role. Today’s work environment focuses more on casual interfacing each day than formal boardroom functions.

Substantial in scale and refined in design, Gunlocke’s new Urbana lounge collection reflects what results when careful tailoring meets inviting comfort. In his first lounge seating design for Gunlocke, Kevin Stark had in mind settings that require larger scale pieces. www.gunlocke.com

The HON Company’s Soothe™ Collection maximizes comfort along the patient’s journey. Designed specifically for healthcare environments, Soothe is designed to support both patients and caregivers. The Soothe patient recliner features a pivoting arm unparalleled in the industry. The collection also includes benches, guest chairs, tables and high-back patient chairs, all designed with a rounded triangular frame, which is much stronger than the standard square or round tube within most chairs. www.hon.com


With clean lines and a straightforward design, the Sylvi Modular Lounge Collection, provides up to date connectivity through a hidden power and USB connector channel. It can be spec’d with attachable back panels for extra privacy. The waterfall upholstery design maximizes pattern matching and fabric yield. www.izzyplus.com

Evoke represents a revolution in unitized wall design and development, rendering traditional drywall virtually obsolete. Just as drywall evolved from plaster-based walls, Evoke is a new generation of cost effective steel panel construction.

 

Sway is a lounge seating solution that offers users freedom of movement based on a unique orbital motion, allowing users to move freely in all directions.

 

Soltíce Metal seating, designed for healthcare environments, provides exceptional comfort and support. The graceful lines of the steel frame are both beautiful and durable. The collection adds to and builds upon the wood frame versions. www.ki.com

 

Horsepower serves the adaptive office with a place to sit and recharge, a structure for whiteboads and video displays, and an efficient technology channel defining group workspaces. Horsepower can be mobile, independent modules with plug-in power (2 USB+8 simplex each face) for dynamic open plan work groups and activity spaces, or “sawhorse” desk supports for Antenna tops. Horsepower can also be planned as configured modules with 4- or 6-circuit modular power (4 duplex or USB each face), desk supports, suspended storage, and glass, laminate, wood or fabric screens.

Designed to shape an environment to meet the needs of multiple tasks and audiences, Pixel™ is a flexible meeting that can be reconfigured quickly and easily by a single individual. High-performance design details ensure it will last in even the most active environments.

 

Pop Up™ provides instantly adjustable space delineation, privacy and enclosure for primary and shared spaces. It is an individual accessory, allowing employees to create an on-demand boundary when they desire focus, privacy, or a soft surrounding. Pop Up can also be fixed to a work surface, acting as a more flexible alternative to permanent screens.

 

PrismTM is David Adjaye’s first soft seating collection for Knoll, consisting of a club chair, an ottoman and a side table. The three pieces are designed as geometric shapes that are also ergonomically perfected for the body. The collection explores 21st century forms, behaving like sculpture within a space. www.knoll.com/design-plan

Each product in the Adjaye Collection presents a unique take on geometric and organic systems through the processes of weaving or printing to create an extraordinary range of patterns and textures. Themes for the collection include geography, nature, and culture. Each fabric is named after a place on the continent of Africa that David Adjaye cherishes—from lush garden cities (Kampala) to historic deltas (Aswan). www.knoll.com/neocon-2015

 

CREPE is a new family of freestanding plant pots for use either indoors or outdoors, in a choice of two heights, two widths and various finishes. It is one of 35 new products from Magnuson at NeoCon this year.

 

Color Field is intended for education environments. inspired by color field painting it is a cushion-backed carpet featuring the industry’s highest acoustic performance to improve hearing, focus and ultimately, the learning experience. www.millikencarpet.com

The Blueprint Collection – nine new corporate upholstery patterns designed in collaboration with Emanuela Frattini Magnusson – features dramatic graphics translated into luxurious woven constructions, rendered in exceptionally vivid colors. With outstanding performance results including an average of 100,000 Wyzenbeek double rubs, the Blueprint Collection is perfect for any corporate setting including high-traffic areas. www.themomgroup.com

 

Two4Six blurs the line between private office and collaborative space. The series includes tables, desks, height-adjustable surfaces, louvered walls, monitor walls and credenzas to create a range of private office workspaces and collaborative meeting areas for two, four or six participants. www.nucraft.com

 

Madrid Executive Swivel carries the design aesthetic of the successful Madrid Lounge and Conference seating collection into the private office. Cast aluminum or bent plywood arm options complement the finely detailed molded plywood shell back and upholstered seat and brings quiet refinement to the office space.

 

Riff is a rich wood meeting table covering functions from the conference room to the private office, open plan, or game room. A full range of heights supports individual work, team meetings and everything in between.

 

Plimode is a conference chair with both elegant design and functionality. The silhouette of clean lines running from the back to the mechanism aesthetically characterizes the chair. Specially selected fabrics give various choices of style. The highly refined mechanism provides synchro-reclining with preference selection.

Inspired by architecture and made possible by advances in structural engineering, Traverse feature a top so thin it seems to float on the minimal support system, yet it can span up to 20 feet in length. Every component of the table has been meticulously designed, from the silhouette to the transparent design, from the integration of technology to 14 beautiful finishes. www.okamura.jp/en_us/

Each of the four patterns that comprise the On the Dot Collection (Dot Dot Dot, Polka Dotty, Spot On and French Crepe) pushes the parameters of the perfection of a circle, providing dynamic and unexpected patterns.

 

WorkStyles is a customizable casegoods system with integrated lounge seating for individual and group work. Designed to offer a more casual alternative to traditional casegoods, WorkStyles also speaks to today’s blending of work life and personal life. The integrated seating elements provide a retreat from our fast-paced world. www.tuohyfurniture.com

 

Allstar is characterized by unexpected shapes and colors. It provides office workers with a relaxed home-like feel and sense of familiarity. Exuding casual ease and comfort, it is designed to yield a calming influence and de-accelerate the fast-paced dynamic of today’s offices. www.vitra.com/en-us/living

 

West Elm Workspace Bench Collection provides function and many choices for personalization. Modern, Mid-Century and Industrial collections have an accessible approach to personal style. Building on West Elm’s home expertise, the private office solutions merge style with smart design — from rich wood and fabric finishes that make work more welcoming, to modular storage systems that can be used as freestanding pieces or grouped together. www.westelmworkspace.com

 

MultiNester nesting chair delivers more seat in less square feet by reimagining folding architecture. An extension of Allseating’s popular Multi-line of training seating, MultiNester is a seemingly simple nesting chair that’s built on a revolutionary space-saving design premise. To collapse a traditional nesting chair, the seat flips up so the chairs can be nested together. But with MultiNester, the seat drops down, radically reducing the space required for each chair. This one change saves several inches per nested chair, meaning more chairs can be nested together for significant maximizing of capacity or storage cost savings. www.allseating.com

In DIRTT Residential interiors, DIRTT is introducing a curved timber frame honeycomb ceiling comprising 127 individually cut and curved beams, each honeycomb is unique and reflects the beauty and design flexibility timber frame can bring to any space.

 

Corning® Willow® Glass is the result of DIRTT’s recent partnership with Corning, which will integrate Corning’s Willow Glass with DIRTT’s walls. Thirty times thinner and lighter than standard 6 mm soda lime glass, 200 µm Willow Glass is an ultra-thin, flexible, display-grade glass that enables DIRTT to apply a pristine, durable glass surface to a wide range of next generation products. Willow Glass is chemically durable, scratch resistant, bendable and easy to clean.

 

3D Thermofoil, a laminate material that is thermoformed to an MDF tile, is a durable and attractive surface finish. The install process is seamless, eliminating unsightly lines and sharp corners, and boosting infection prevention. www.dirtt.net

 

Canopy, conceived by Primo Orpilla of Studio O+A and developed with the design team at Kimball Office, moves beyond conventional open plan benching to give each user a versatile work tool that changes according to the needs of the moment. While this product will fit into any open plan, it may be modified to give the user more acoustical and visual privacy as needed. And Canopy’s height adjustment capability – a discreet mechanism that allows the user to raise or lower the desk without disturbing colleagues – is both a social and an ergonomic advance.

The Pairings collection delivers essential elements to support conversation and collaborative work across a variety of work applications. From corporate offices to higher education facilities to hospitality destinations, this line of seating, tables and surfaces creates adaptable lounge-based work settings that can play host to both teams and technology in comfort and style.

 

Splendor, by Italian designer Marco Maran, sports a shape that is equally expressive and welcoming, combining the comfort of a warm embrace with a versatility suitable for any environment. Its captivating silhouette, subtle details and gentle curves are designed to provide comfort as well as a freedom of movement that increases its functionality and adaptability.

 

Teem was made for the places people gather, keeping people connected to their technology and each other. Both sides of the wall can be equipped with monitors or marker boards, and your choice of table base and top make the space even more functional. www.kimballoffice.com

 

Essay™ Seating addresses today’s fast-paced learning environments where individuals learn by interacting, socializing and collaborating. Essay’s wall friendly design and tray base allow users to wheel around while their belongings will stay safe. Essay is available in eight signature colors and in a student chair, task chair and stool.

 

Fold™ Flip/Nest Tables are versatile and ready to spring into action with a twist of the knob, folding up conveniently with another twist. Move tables together to collaborate, apart for focus time, or move them out of the way entirely. Fold’s durable casters and flip/nest capabilities allow users to reconfigure with ease.

The Fringe collection of furniture features lounge seating, tables, bistro tables and club chairs, and has been expanded to include inline media tables and freestanding tables. Cove units feature high and mid backs that wrap around to accommodate spaces that require privacy.

 

Whimsy™ Impromptu Seating adds spontaneous seating and cheer to any setting with a simple style. Static and mobile options in varied sizes and shapes make Whimsy the ideal addition to any environment. Accommodate meetings that grow or get-togethers that roam with Whimsy. www.nationalofficefurniture.com

 

Butterfly Chair, designed by Niels Gammelgaard, is a beautiful chair in molded veneer focusing on simple lines and genuine materials. Available upholstered or in veneer, the stackable model is crafted of sustainable woods.

The Tonica Wood Chair, a modern take on the simple wood chair, has the strong sense of form inherent in new Nordic design. The design, also by Niels Gammelgaard is one of several pieces Trendway will introduce through its collaboration with Danish furniture manufacturer Magnus Olesen and some of Denmark’s most celebrated designers and architects. Specializing in wood craftsmanship, Magnus Olesen offers warm Nordic-inspired creations with international influences and thoughtful design sensibilities. The category of high-end wood furniture provides a natural enhancement to Trendway’s current offering. www.trendway.com