What’s in your locker? The builder
This summer we’ve been meeting up with some regular locker users to find out just what they keep in there and how their locker plays an essential part in...
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Articles
Workification of home...
... and the homification of work This is how we describe the trend in workplace design becoming more informal (think Google) and the growth in the workforce...
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The office through the decades: The 1950s
John Fogarty is our recently retired Director of Design. In an industry career spanning five decades he has witnessed wholesale changes to office life. Drawing...
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Respecting personal space
Forget what you think you know about office storage solutions because things are changing to meet the new needs of workers, writes Helen Owen, director of new...
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Inspiring spaces
We’ve recently delivered a complete furniture package to Nightingale Primary Academy in Leeds – and they were kind enough to invite us back to see our...
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Movement to cubicle to open plan to variety and back
A brief flit through the last 50 or so years of office design would tend to suggest that architects, furniture manufacturers and management have spent an...
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Lifetime Achievement Award for our Chairman
On 9 May 2016 our Chairman, Tony Brown (left), was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Furniture Makers’ Company. The award was presented by...
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Steel yourself for the future
Last week we spent a fun-filled three days at Clerkenwell Design Week with Workflow, our water fountain made from Multidrawers. During the festival we asked...
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Clerkenwell - past, present and future
Grant Gibson, gives us his thoughts on Clerkenwell Design Week, past, present and future. Have you heard the news? We’re making our debut at Clerkenwell...
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You don’t get all the clues in the workplace
How do you approach workplace design was one of the many questions thrown at our expert panel at our recent Designing for Modern Work event. Research,...
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Where do you keep yours?
Do you ever feel like you’re being pulled in two directions in the office? We’re told to ‘bring our whole selves to work’ and to consider our wellbeing,...
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Office furniture to meet the demands of the TMT sector
Much has been written about how, particularly in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector, the introduction of a large crop of professional...
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Do we automatically respect working spaces that aren’t our own?
At our ‘Belong at Work’ event in November a member of the audience asked our panel how users of shared work spaces can be encouraged to respect them. Does...
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Is it places or people that make things happen?
Many businesses are looking for ways they can increase collaboration, and indeed it was a hot topic at our recent ‘Belong at Work’ event. Work spaces on...
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If people don’t feel like it’s their space they’ll move on
We can all be creatures of habit. From nabbing the same sun-lounger by the pool everyday on holiday to the 3pm chocolate biscuit pick-me-up. But how does our...
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