Preview to NeoCon East 2015
NeoCon East is ready to make a strong debut in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Oct 28-29.
NeoCon 2015
NeoCon 2015 Recap
NeoCon, which celebrated its 47th anniversary this year, is one of America’s largest contract design expos. Held from June 15 -17 at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, it featured over 700 exhibitors showcasing furniture and accessories, including: corporate office, education/institutional, environmental/sustainable, healthcare, hospitality/retail, lighting and stone/tile.
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Karen M. Koenig,
June 26, 2015 | 4:49 pm CDT
Furniture Manufacturer Debuts Healthy Workplace Desks
KI Furniture offers a variety of height-adjustable sit/stand desks and floor plans
A Steelcase Brody Work Lounge: Like Business Class Seating
Office workers need to get cozy to focus on tasks, and because there is fequent crossover between lhome and office, a comfortable spot like the Steelcase Brody Lounge chair is welcome. In busy noisy offices, workers need a place to get away without going away. It was launched at NeoCon 2015 in Chicago.[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"76885","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]]
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Bill Esler,
June 20, 2015 | 7:17 am CDT
Art & Craft of CNC: Herman Miller's Solid Wood Excellence
Herman Miller has mastered the awesome capabilities of its 5-axis CNC routers to manufacture six chair arms at a time for their Full Twist chair. Conventional woodworking equipment physically could not make that arm. They made a believer out of me.
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John Lindsay,
June 19, 2015 | 8:01 am CDT
Numeris Simplified Digital Drawer & Door Locks
Digilock's Numeris secures storage using a simple keypad entry or RFID credential. Designed for file cabinets, storage, and casegoods, is answers a rising in demand since mobile workforces need secure personal storage.
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Bill Esler,
June 17, 2015 | 11:00 pm CDT
OFM’s New Chair Can Charge Your Laptop
Integrated technology in everyday office furniture, a hot trend in the workplace, was very apparent in OFM's new Serenity Series lounge chair shown at NeoCon 2015. People want to work in different spots in the office, but "if you want to get away from your desk you have to crawl around the floor looking for an outlet or leave the cord trailing across a hallway where people can trip on it," says OFM's CEO Blake Zalcberg. This chair solves the problem.
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Bill Esler,
June 17, 2015 | 3:56 pm CDT
JumpSeat: Tambour Wood Technique Applied to Seating
Sedia's JumpSeat Wall provides touchdown short-term seating where space is limited. The chair is mounted 6” off the floor to facilitate cleaning and measures less than 4” when closed to maximize space. This wall-mounted chair is ideal for hallways, patient rooms, conference rooms, home entryways, mudrooms and walk-in closets. Sedia, which makes fold-down stadium seating, manufacturers the JumpSeat chair at its plant in High Point, North Carolina
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Bill Esler,
June 16, 2015 | 5:45 pm CDT
Death of the Grommet: How Next Generation Furniture Will Look
A dramatic conference table series created for Okamura say much about the trend to simplicity in business furniture design seen at NeoCon 2015. But it says even more about how wiring will be handled in the office of the future: it may just disappear.
By
Bill Esler,
June 16, 2015 | 2:34 pm CDT
