Teknion Corporation tallied up the six awards it won at NeoCon 2016 last week in Chicago. Zones, a comprehensive series of furniture that transforms the office, earned three awards including the show’s top honor – Best of Competition.

Furniture produced and sold for health care, education markets, and public seating will be added - along with office furniture - to the production and sales total tracked by BIFMA, the Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Assocation.

Furniture maker Coalesse has introduced several new lines of design-driven contract furniture, items intended to foster social connection and creative collaboration. It also showed at NeoCon 2016 its Customizer web design app.

Joey Ruiter’s latest collection for izzy+ shown at NeoCon is the Sylvi modular lounge collection, which works to find balance between residential appeal and contract-quality furniture.

As commercial interior and furniture show NeoCon 2016 winds down, here are the first five things that stopped us in our tracks at Chicago's Merchandise Mart, including photorealistic sublimation powder coating of contour-edge MDF tabletops.