A modular seating system that empowers designers and nurtures well-being.
Tate is an intuitive system of modular furniture components that link and rotate through a patent-pending pivot connector, unlocking endless possibilities for layout and interaction. Developed by Here Now, Tate offers a new approach to space planning—one that is as functional and flexible as it is fresh and inviting.
A response to the growing need for mental, emotional, and social well-being in public spaces. Tate provides user-controlled privacy, offering the individual a sense of defined personal space while still enabling safe, comfortable interaction. The result is a system that encourages connection—without compromising autonomy.
At its core, Tate is a designer’s toolkit: cushions, base beams, and tables that snap together to become whatever the space needs them to be. Whether used in education, healthcare, workplace, or hospitality environments, Tate is easy to specify, fun to configure, and adaptable to change.
Tate redefines what modular seating can be:
A platform for creativity. A tool for well-being. A system built for the evolving needs of people and place.
What will you create?
At Here Now we believe, as a company led by industrial design and manufacturing, it is our job to create the tools that allow you the interior designer, architect and specifier to create the solutions. Solutions that are meaningful to you, to the environments you envision, and to the people who experience them.
Tate components are your building blocks: easy to specify, fun to configure, dynamic and flexible in application.
Back to back, side to side or create a quiet place to hide.
Whether you’re designing for privacy, interaction, play, or pause, Tate is a creative canvas—a system that adapts to the rhythm of real life.
Keep it together.
Balance controlled spacing with community—supporting safe interaction without compromising connection.
Time for change.
Furniture designed to give you the freedom to shape space in fresh, functional, and adaptable ways.
Pivot makes perfect.
At the heart of the system is a patent-pending pivot connector that lets pieces link, rotate, and reconfigure with ease. It ships flat-packed, assembles tool-free, and unlocks nearly endless configurations—all with a tactile, intuitive experience.
Here Now, a boutique contract furniture brand for creatives, by creatives.
Charlotte, North Carolina — Here Now is a boutique contract furniture brand designing and manufacturing in North Carolina. Born out of a desire to elevate domestic craftsmanship and creative collaboration in the contract furniture industry, Here Now is locally rooted in a broad worldview. Blurring the lines between varying design disciplines, Here Now offers architects, interior designers, and workplace solutions providers a fresh perspective.
Aesthetically minded and function focused, Here Now creates for the unique needs of today’s shared space sand the people they serve. As brand founded and led by Industrial Design, each product in the collection examines the everchanging landscape of office, hospitality and institutional interiors.
Here Now is obsessed with providing inspiration and transformative experiences. The brand explores the boundaries of trend through vibrant expression and neutrality through the use of color, delivering function with delight, in a conscious effort to get design professionals to put it all together.
Be anywhere, experience everything, be here now.
Founding Story — Fresh off the 2020 sale of his successful lifestyle and functional accessory brand Most Modest, award winning industrial designer and entrepreneur Justin Champaign (@jchampaign) returned to North Carolina to build a new commercial furniture company focused on elevating domestic craft and creative collaboration. A brand born during the pandemic—a time that revealed an opportunity for change in the contract furniture industry—Justin founded Here Now to do things differently.
Manufacture – Here Now
Continuing the furniture design and manufacturing tradition in North Carolina, Here Now sources and produces most of its designs within a 70-mile radius of Charlotte, NC. A close-to-home footprint—and an intentional way of doing things—bring the design team close to the product offering unparalleled agility with client-friendly inventory and lead times. Committed to a considered approach at every stage of the creative journey.
ICFF NYC and Design Days Chicago:
Here Now will be launching Tate and other new collections this Spring and Summer at ICFF in NYC booth 1211, and at Design Days Chicago at the The New American Craft Pop-up at 1052 W Fulton Market floor 2.