NeoCon East 2009 Success!
Posted: 10.29.09
By Andrea Rohleder

It’s been a VERY busy NeoCon East week for us at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland! Show traffic has been brisk and Kimball Office Booth 1809 is flooded with end users from many industries interested in our new product introductions.

On Wednesday, designer David Allan Pesso was busy all day giving demonstrations of his latest office innovation, Fluent.  It’s the perfect product solution to bridge the gap between private office and the open plan. Our popular Kimball Office | Interstuhl seating line was on hand, including the Mitos and Fit chair, which everyone seems to love – it’s never empty!

Also on Wednesday, our very own Elizabeth Hurley, Strategic Account Manager, was a speaker at a seminar about techniques to build stronger relationships between furniture representatives, dealers and designers.  Way to go, Liz!  And if that’s not enough, Kimball Office had the hottest after party with hot appetizers, entertainment, and a Martini bar!  All of our souvenir martini glasses were given away in the first hour! 

If you didn’t make it to NeoCon East, you can follow Kimball Office on Twitter, check our Flickr page for show photos, or visit our Facebook page.  Let’s get connected!

And don’t forget, you don’t have to be in Baltimore to enter to win a Silver chair! It’s the ultimate luxury executive seat.

Fluent Nominated for Interior Design Magazine’s Best of the Year Awards
Posted: 10.09.09
By Kimball Office Social Media Team

We’re honored to be nominated for Interior Design‘s 2009 Best of the Year awards…and now we need your votes! Our new desking solution, Fluent, designed by David Allan Pesso, has been nominated in the contract desking and systems category.

The Best of the Year awards are a preeminent design competition recognizing superior interior design projects and products in more than 50 different categories.

Fluent, our modular and flexible desking system, easily goes from private office to open plan using a platform of interchangeable parts that allow it to adjust to match evolving brands, teams, workspaces and preferences in any office.

Fluent includes worksurfaces, tables, storage elements and privacy screens that can be combined to provide effective solutions for every user. And those components are incredibly flexible – you can configure them in singles, doubles, reception stations, private offices and open plans. Of course, it’s environmentally responsible, like all Kimball Office products. We designed Fluent using EPA Design for the Environment standards and LEED protocols. And it’s IAQ compliant – even the wood components, which are sealed with our proprietary Pura UV finish.

If you’re a fan of Fluent and Kimball Office, please take some time to VOTE HERE! Please hurry, your votes must be submitted by this Sunday, October 11.

Kimball Office Wins Innovation Silver Award at IIDEX
Posted: 09.24.09
By Andrea Rohleder

We headed north this week, excited to participate in IIDEX Canada. Little did we know we’d be a hit – winning a coveted Innovation Silver award for Fluent! IIDEX Innovation awards honor excellence in product designs that demonstrate problem solving, budget strategy, environmental responsiveness and marketing objectives.

Fluent, our newest product line, was designed to bring flexibility, luxury and sophisticated design to any workplace. Designer David Allan Pesso worked with our team to develop a desking solution that goes from private office to open plan with ease. At our Chicago Showroom Event in June, Fluent was hailed as being “better than European design.” We won’t argue whether it’s better, but we can agree that Fluent is one gorgeous product.

It’s also a sustainable product. You didn’t think we’d design something beautiful without considering its environmental impact, did you? As a Kimball Office product, Fluent is BIFMA level certified, and features our proprietary Pura UV finish. It’s also certified to meet the USGBC LEED indoor air quality requirements and has an available option of FSC certified wood.

We’re thrilled to win this award – thank you IIDEX for sharing the honor!

Fluent: Behind the Scenes
Posted: 07.07.09
By Karen Lechner

If you were lucky enough to make it to our Chicago Showroom Event, you probably met Fluent, our newest casegoods line. If you were even luckier, you might have met David Allan Pesso, the designer behind it. But if you’re one of the luckiest, you know the whole story – how Fluent came to life.

All new lines take time to develop, and Fluent was no exception. About two years ago, I joined the product development team that would eventually create Fluent. Back then, it was just a code name, an idea. We were looking to create a contemporary series, an upscale product that was a departure from our previous lines.

We completed research to determine what, exactly was missing from available products with wood solutions. And we discovered a need for more open plan furniture – especially furniture that could easily transition from open plan to private office. Open plan furniture had always been defined by Read more…