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RETROSPECTIVE

Since the 1990s, wall panels have been lowered
in an effort to make spaces more collaborative, with
new options for desking or benching. "For years,
office workers spent the entirety of each business day
surrounded by towering cubicle walls; then, we saw a
major transition in the early 2000s toward an open
office environment, with seismic shifts in contract
product releases to match," notes IIDA's Durst.
'Resimercial' and Collaborative Seating
As workspaces have morphed from strict cubicles
to more fluid, task-oriented environments,

that allows end users to choose the type of
environment they need for the task rather than
being assigned 'a space' that provides the tools
they need to get their job done," Morton says.
As a result, today's office spaces exude
more of a residential or hospitality aesthetic.
Some contract manufacturers have fulfilled
this need by launching or acquiring brands that
straddle the line of residential, like Haworth (with
Haworth Collection, Cappellini, Cassina, and
Poltrona Frau) or Steelcase (with Turnstone
and Coalesse). "With the help of these partners

"The parties in the 1980s and early 1990s were just crazy. We now live
in an age where people are more serious, and it is about the showrooms
and not just product but applications of product." -KURT VANDERSCHUUR,
HAWORTH'S GLOBAL BRAND DIRECTOR
furniture designers have become less constrained
and allowed their creativity to reimagine the office
landscape. "The office renaissance is redefining
the workplace," says Brian Shapland, general
manager for product partnerships for Steelcase.
"Workers are rebelling against the sea of sameness
that defined many offices in the past."
Now that people can work anywhere with
laptops and wireless technology, furniture must
accommodate the shifting work styles with more
collaborative pieces. "Traditional furnishings are
still important, but now we see workspace design
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and others, including Flos, Blu Dot, Bolia,
Viccarbe and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams,
we're creating informal, authentic and inspiring
spaces-workplaces where people want to gather,
collaborate, and perform at their best," says
Steelcase's Shapland. "These spaces thoughtfully
consider design, materiality, and performance-
because in addition to looking good and feeling
good, a space also needs to perform to help people
do their best work."
John Stephens, vice president of marketing
at Shaw, definitely feels the influence of residential

and hospitality on commercial spaces.
"We're getting hardwood business from commercial [clients]," he says. "That's a direct
response to the desire of our clients to have
workplace spaces that are warmer, that
feel more like residential or hospitality.
The fact that we can marry carpet tile and
broadoom, and rugs and hardwood, to create
those warmer, softer spaces is being driven
by that 'resimercial' trend."
Amanda Eaton, vice president of design
at Arc-Com, which first exhibited at NeoCon
in 1982, also acknowledges this melding
of contract-grade products with a residential
aesthetic. "The tremendous amount of visual
information and exposure that we now all
have via technology has led to a wonderful
aesthetic cohesiveness across contract product
categories," she says. "Our challenges now
revolve around creating products that look
and feel homey or residential, but will perform
in any commercial space-essentially offering
up textiles that can be used in places that
they do not seem intended for."
Sustainability
The movement to incorporate environmental
sustainability into product and showroom
design can no longer be called a trend, as most
manufacturers employ eco-conscious measures
just because it's the right thing to do. All market
segments-from furniture, flooring, and finishes
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