Design à la modus ID
Last month’s NeoCon was a personal triumph for Nick Gillissie and Paul Krüger with the launch of their Res cupcake-like upholstered soft seating on a rolling pivoting storage space, for Allseating; and Collaborative Spaces, a collection of mobile tables, team and hospitality carts, for Global. Two more Global launches are in the pipeline. Krüger’s new wall systems, which he can’t discuss yet, will launch next year. Gillissie and Krüger are founders and partners at modus ID, a five-person firm specializing in industrial design, product development and design consulting for the contract furniture industry. Remarkably, they’re the only player in that narrow market niche, Gillissie avers. “To the best of our knowledge, we’re the only design firm in North America with our mix of expertise.” We caught up with the duo in their office deep in the bowels of a labyrinthine light-industry building in Toronto’s east end, where Gillissie mercifully offers …
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