At officeinsight, we don’t hand out official awards during Chicago Design Week. There are already plenty of colorful acrylic trophies floating around THE MART and Fulton Market. Instead, we keep a running list of the…
In an industrial area just outside Grand Rapids, there is a machine at a new company called Mangrove that lays down sand, injects it with cement paste through nozzles as thin as a pencil…
The furniture company born from a design collective is launching in the United States with three pieces meant to accentuate a residential or office lounge area. The years-long work of a multidisciplinary design…
At officeinsight, we don’t hand out official awards during Chicago Design Week. There are already plenty of colorful acrylic trophies floating around THE MART and Fulton Market. Instead, we keep a running list of the…
Some companies talk about legacy. Mayer Fabrics lives it. The Indianapolis-based contract textile company is heading into NeoCon this year with two showrooms at THE MART, a freshly launched collection that’s already generating buzz, a…
Every few years, it seems, Vari gives the industry a reason to reconsider what it thinks it knows about the Dallas-based brand. For a long time, Vari was synonymous with its flagship…
For a company that recently celebrated its 70th anniversary, Andreu World is remarkably forward-looking. The Spain-based, family-owned furniture manufacturer has built its global reputation by committing — almost stubbornly — to craft, design and an ethical responsibility to the planet.…
Gensler’s global product director traces his philosophy to the rink, the stage and every fall that became a beginning. Gensler Global Product Director Brandon Larcom spent his youth in motion — carving arcs across frozen rinks, practicing lifts…
Configura has been around for decades now, but in many ways still operates like a startup that refuses to settle. The Swedish space planning software company has built a global business on…
On a recent Friday at Steelcase’s Learning + Innovation Center in Grand Rapids, teams of elite athletes gathered for competition and for the 2025 G.O.A.T. Rodeo trophy. The athletes traveled to Steelcase…
Vinyl is our industry’s hard-to-break habit. Though everyone knows the production of vinyl creates toxic byproducts and that it does not biodegrade when it inevitably hits the landfill, it is still used…
Fans of the Las Vegas Raiders football team gathered recently for its home opener at Allegiant Stadium, most decked out in all black yelling “Raaaideerrrss!” to deafening refrains of the same —…
When it comes to plastic waste, to say it’s excessive is an understatement: The U.S. alone in 2018 generated 35.7 million tons, according to the EPA. In 2019, it was the country…
