by Sonja Hall, 3rings

Perhaps this lounge chair looks like a shark leaping out of water because I feed ours on a daily basis - and have had an exceedingly low amount of sleep in recent weeks - but really, the Aspetta Lounge Chairby Dauphin (yes, it sounds like dolphin) is one of a kind.  Read more…

by Designer Pages

If you’re headed to NeoCon this year, the show got a little more fun! DesignerPages.com and MMPI are teaming up in 2011 to produce The Game @ NeoCon. For three days, the Merchandise Mart will be the game board, while exhibitors will be the spaces players (attendees) move through. In The Game, attendees ditch the dice and use the Showrooms App (for iPhone or Android) instead, which leads them on their journeys through the Mart. Attendees earn points for various actions (completed within showroom profiles): Like = 1pt, Comment = 5pts, Photo = 8pts, Check-In = 10pts Read More

by Nina Boccia, Azure

Ontario’s Design Industry Advisory Committee rounds up a star-studded panel of Canadian designers to discuss the beauty of design at Chicago’s NeoCon World Trade Fair on June 13. Read More

by Joseph Starr, 3rings

Gather Modern Office. Manufactured by Allsteel.

Certainly the buzzword of the day is “collaboration.” No other term better captures the new mood prevailing over the workspace environment, as designers and manufacturers jockey for new layouts, aesthetics, and functionality for contract schemes. At this year’s NeoCon, look to Allsteel’s Gather to capture this zeitgeist and set future trends.  Read more…

by Joseph Starr, 3rings

Trea Guest Chair. Designed by Todd Bracher. Manufactured by Humanscale.

Ever since the debut of Trea some two months back at Salone, Humanscale has tantalized A&D aficionados with rumors of the wide-spread availability of this impressive Guest Chair. Don’t blame Trea, however, for what appears to be a protracted process; rather, consider Humanscale’s determination to make the proverbial splash at NeoCon 2011. The company has said Trea will be available mid-year. Let’s all hope that means smack dab in the month of June, once the dust has settled after the largest gathering of contract furniture manufacturers this side of anywhere…Read more…

by Joseph Starr, 3rings

Airtouch Height-Adjustable Desk. Manufactured by Details.

As a chiropractor/physical therapist friend recently reminded me (somewhat too cheerfully, albeit), “lack of motion equals death.” He was referring to the phenomenon called “creep,” whereby stationary ligaments loose their elasticity and eventually become incapable of the resiliency needed to support active, dynamic motion. Someone at Steelcase’s Details subsidiary must be clued into this unfortunate bodily consequence as well, for the new Airtouch series of height-adjustable work surfaces is specifically geared to make us less sedentary at work.  Read more.

by Sonja Hall, 3rings

TLace It or Leave It. Designed by Karastan Contract. Manufactured by The Mohawk Group

Lace It Or Leave It is a new tile and broadloom carpet collection by Karastan Contract, part ofThe Mohawk Group, which will be showcased at the NeoCon fair this coming week. Using the latest fashion for clothing as a large-scale, patterned flooring option, it’s borderline sustainable - using 15-percent post-consumer recycled content as well.  Read more.

Posted by Humanscale

Here at InterfaceFLOR, NeoCon 2011 is on all of our minds. Join us, to overthrow status quo from the ground up, June 13-15 at MM 10-121 and Make Your Mark. Here’s a sneak peak of what we’ve got in store…read more