Greenbuild 2009…The GREEN place to be this week!
Posted: 11.11.09
By Andrea Rohleder

We’re out in Phoenix this week at the annual Greenbuild Conference and Expo. What a great show this year! Attendance is up yet again and expo traffic is very busy at Kimball Office booth #3268. We have a lot of great products and info to share with visitors to the Phoenix Convention Center.

Center stage in our booth is Fluent, our stylish and sustainable new desking solution designed by David Allan Pesso. We’ve also brought our popular Kimball Office | Interstuhl seating line, including Mitos, Silver, Xantos, and Hero. Just for You series. Fluent is BIFMA level 1 certified and we are working on certifications for the Interstuhl seating lines right now.

Remember, Wednesday night is the plenary session with Keynote Speaker Al Gore and a closing concert by nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow!

If you can’t make it to Greenbuild, you can follow Kimball Office on Twitter, check our Flickr page for show photos, or visit our Facebook page. Don’t get left out!

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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 is Flying South for IFMA World Workplace
Posted: 10.02.09
By Andrea Rohleder

Is there a better place to spend a few days in October than sunny Florida? Next week, on October 7 and 8, Kimball Office is headed to IFMA‘s annual World Workplace Conference and Expo in Orlando.

We’re excited to show off two of our hottest products lines, including the new Fluent desking system and our new Kimball Office | Interstuhl seating collection.

Visit us in booth #625 at the Orange County Convention Center to see how Fluent can easily take your facilities from the private office to open plan.

While you’re there, be sure to check out one of our new Kimball Office | Interstuhl products – the incredible Mitos visitor’s chair. It’s several handy office tools in one. Use it as a lecturn, laptop stand, footstool or guest chair. And don’t forget, you can enter to win your own Silver chair!

Hope you can make it to Orlando, but if you’re stuck at home, you can see what’s happening at the conference by following the hashtag #ww09 on Twitter. And don’t forget to follow us at @KimballOffice.

If you’re more of a Facebook fan, keep up with us on our fan page as we cover our conference experience. Can’t wait to see you there – online or in person!

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!