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We raise our glasses to this year’s project and product winners that reflect the best of Canadian design. By David Lasker Forward by Peter Sobchak

Canadian Interiors’ Best of Canada Design Competition is the country’s only design competition to focus on interior design projects and products without regard to size, budget or location. We welcome submissions from interior designers, architects, interior architects, decorators, and crafts persons.

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Having reached the ripe age of 21 means Best of Canada is old enough to drink everywhere, and in some ways we would love to take all the winners out for a pint to celebrate their accomplishment. In fact we’d love to take every entrant out for a drink — after all, to step in the ring and present your work to be judged is a brave act and one to be commended — but clearly with such a strong year of submission totals once again it would mean a bar tab that would rival Norm’s from Cheers.

work swotting an impressive list of entrants: Miles Keller, president of Dystil; Lee Fletcher, co-founder of Fig40; and Leslie Jen, a design journalist and communications consultant. Ultimately, a total of 22 winners were chosen, which include three Products and 19 Projects representing a cross-Canada spectrum. When it came time to select the Project of the Year, the judges took this task extremely seriously, discussing and debating at length until a unanimous choice became clear: a sense-shifting retail nook in Toronto that celebrates the ritual of listening to music and the process of testing, Headfoneshop by Batay-Csorba Architects. “It’s easy to imagine sinking into the space and spending time there, which, from a retail perspective, is key, allowing customers to engage and understand the products,” said Graham.

The two categories of Projects and Products require distinct judging exercises, which were held on separate days, both at the Teknion Toronto Collaboration Hub and with Teknion’s support. A stellar group of designers and critics stepped up to tackle the daunting task of reviewing the submissions and selecting this year’s cream of the crop. For Projects we recruited: Bennett C. Lo, principal and founder of Dialogue 38 Inc.; Kelly Cray, principal and co-founder of U31 Design; Meg Graham, principal at superkül; and Anna Stranks, principal at STUDIO A Design Collaborative and a professor at Humber College’s Bachelor of Interior Design program. On the Products side, three judges put their expertise to

The Best of Canada Awards also continues to celebrate the exceptional work of Canada’s product designers. With the Judges’ Pick one of the Products category winners got the nod for a trip package to attend Maison+Objet Paris as a VIP in January, 2019 (thanks to the ongoing generous sponsorship of Maison+Objet). This honour goes to UUfie for the originality and poetry of their Echo table collection. “There is something almost magical about it,” said Keller, “Echo is a sophisticated, perfectly proportioned and highly evocative design that goes its own way in a sea of sameness.”

Project judges (l to r): Anna Stranks, Bennett C. Lo, Kelly Cray and Meg Graham

Product judges (l to r): Miles Keller, Leslie Jen, Lee Fletcher

Congratulations to all 22 winners!

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Meg Graham: The Headfoneshop is graphically and spatially arresting. Its succinct and layered design was beautifully executed. The visual ‘noise’ of the powder-coated plates evokes the flutter and movement of sound; as a plane, the plates fold over the wall and ceiling in contrast to the rich, velvety and warm finishes on the floor and millwork.

Headfoneshop is a 300-sq.-ft. retail space for headphones, earphones, amplifiers and related accessories. The stated design objective was “to celebrate the ritual of listening to music and the process of testing.” Sure enough, the fittings convey that this is high-end gear for serious music lovers and audiophiles. Instead of the typical retail scenario with product being displayed on separate stands, the display system here comprises 255 powder-coated folded metal panels, secured with 765 patinaed brass screws. The panels merge with the architecture to wrap walls and ceiling. This visually immersive aspect will evoke in knowledgeable customers the projecting sound-absorbing foam wedges bristling from every surface in an anechoic chamber, where the very headphones on sale went for testing before going into production, and the acoustic panels over the stage in a concert hall that project out over the heads of audience members in the front rows, such as the shell inside the Tanglewood Music Shed, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home.

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At Headfoneshop, the endless repetition of the white blades playing off against the dark smoked-oak millwork and herringbone flooring, velvet-upholstered seating and soft amber lighting, has a calming, mesmerizing effect that enhances concentration for the task at hand: comparing and evaluating the sound of different devices playing the same selection. Think of it as the aural analogue of wine tasting. Besides acting as display stands for the demonstrator headphones, the bent metal plates conceal wiring, eliminating their clutter as a distraction. They also serve as diffusers that block glare from light sources behind the panels. BEST OF CANADA 2018

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Kelly Cray: It’s an impressive “box.” For a small space, it packs a lot of punch. I was captivated by the repetition of material, shape and texture, which defines the volume. The dichotomy of classic and modern elements gives the project an approachable quality while strengthening the retail experience. Anna Stranks: The interrelationship between architectural design and object is thoughtfully fused together to create a dynamic yet intimate environment. The dramatic, seamless application of form, scale, materiality and the powerful texture of metal plates on the ceiling and walls are beautifully choreographed to enhance the sensory experience within the space. Bennett Lo: A simple detail that creates volume.

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Moose Knuckles Toronto

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Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busiest mall, has the highest sales per unit area of any mall in the country. It was a suitable venue for the flagship and first North American store for the Canadian maker of premium sportswear, such as puffer jackets and fur-lined parkas, footwear and bags. The 2,750-sq.-ft. store, located across from competitor Canada Goose, was, according to the Toronto Star, the costliest to build, per square foot, of Yorkdaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approximately 250 stores. First-time shoppers may be excused for confusing the venue with a chichi art gallery, thanks to the wall and curved bulkBEST OF CANADA 2018

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heads clad in smooth, grey cold-rolled steel sheets. They look raw from the rolling mill, with the undulating rivulets of stain accruing along the edges during pickling, a step in the manufacturing process that removes surface scale. The slickness of the steel sheets complements the rustic flooring, whose uneven end-cut black locust block tiles emulate weathered cobblestones. The principal display fixture, a leather-wrapped raceway, hangs by hand-stitched leather straps from the blacked-out ceiling, which minimizes floor clutter. Mirrored glass vitrines display limited-edition items as if they were precious relics.

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Scott Norsworthy

Picnic Food Toronto

Mason Studio Toronto

Inspired by the impromptu elements of a picnic, Mason Studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first street-front Picnic Food store makes reference to the previous underground concourse locations. It also incorporates new branding elements intended to be rolled out in future iterations where they will be adaptable to different environments. One reference to the earlier locations is the communal dining table, though, despite the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, the table rests on a sawhorse rather than picnic-table base. The rationale for the switch is that the sawhorse suggests a

collapsible structure: that impromptu motif again. With integrated power receptacles at the table apron and long bench seating, the communal table is a comfortable place for guests to work or relax. Finally, the designers seemingly cornered the market in battens, with many wall and ceiling sectors embellished with slat screens of long, flat strips of squared maple. The blond woody natural materials palette, with maple battens embellishing wall and ceiling sectors, brings a touch of Scandinavia and British Columbia to southern Ontario.

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Ill Gander

Jordan Toronto

Ædifica with SET Creative Montréal

Starting in the 1980s, Nike morphed from a humble sneaker maker to a force in pop culture, thanks to promotional campaigns with its basketball spokesman, Michael Jordan. For Nike’s first Canadian Jordan store, located next to Toronto’s Eaton Centre, Montréal’s Ædifica worked with New York-based retail brand strategist SET Creative to create an immersive experience. Outside, the 15,000-sq.-ft. store’s façade brandishes Jordan’s logo. Inside, the finish palette of grey-painted brick walls and exposed BEST OF CANADA 2018

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concrete and steel flatters shoppers into imagining they’re eavesdropping inside the locker room and gym of a basketball team. A scoreboard, a large mural replicating Michael Jordan’s dramatic 1986 Wings poster, and a barbershop corner reinforce the impression. Modular display cases and flexible lighting allow for partial clearing of the space so that shoppers can try the regulation-height net near the entrance. On the third floor, local athletes can work out in the weight-training gym.

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Maxime Desbiens

Villeneuve Residence Montréal

Atelier Barda architecture Montréal

In Montréal’s Plateau Mont-Royal, Atelier Barda transformed a grocery store with two apartments above into a single-family home with a garage, garden and rental unit. The former storefront windows and the main central door were conserved. But, to add a measure of privacy needed for a residence, a service block was BEST OF CANADA 2018

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built that incorporates a closet, powder room and bookcase, so that passersby can only catch glimpses of domestic goings-on. The most interesting detail is the handrail for the stairs at the rear of the living room, which folds and curves gracefully to form a newel post evoking the whiplash tendrils of Art Nouveau decoration.

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Maxime Desbiens / Juliette Busch

Maison Gauthier Mount Tremblant, QC

Atelier Barda architecture Montréal

At Maison Gauthier, located in Québec’s hilly Laurentians, life imitates art. The client’s interest in the work of minimalist painters influenced the floor plan and the interconnection of interior volumes. In moving among them, one alternates between sensations of compression and expansion. The two wings of the house, one for the ceramics studio and three-car garage, the other for the living areas, are joined

by a corridor seemingly filched from a Romanesque abbey, thanks to the claustrophobically low vaulted ceiling. The materials palette, too, looks archaic, with its brick, oiled oak and chalky, lime-washed walls. The squeeze-play feeling of darkening and narrowing in the corridor gives way to an exhilarating feeling of openness when one reaches the expansive flanking rooms with their cathedral ceilings.

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Florian Holzherr

Big Space, Little Space Buffalo, N.Y.

Davidson Rafailidis Buffalo, N.Y.

Big Space, Little Space is the adaptive re-use of a clay tile garage, built in a Buffalo residential block in the 1920s, into a dwelling and workshop for a couple. They retreat into the insulated Little Space in winter and sprawl over Big Space, with its additional areas of garden, workshop and roof deck, in warmer months. Little Space is heated with a single radiator. New radiant heating in an exposed new concrete floor was also provided for the bathroom. Five operBEST OF CANADA 2018

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able skylights offer additional natural light and ventilation to Little Space. Big Spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshop, in contrast, has untouched and uninsulated walls, though it was updated with five new skylights and a roof hatch through which rises a surreal staircase made of ghostly thin metal bars. Detailing and finishes plumb the extremes, from raw, cut bricks at the entry door to white oak mortise-and-tenon joinery, framing a mirror of exquisite refinement.

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House on Ancaster Creek Hamilton, ON

Williamson Williamson Toronto

A wooded lot backing onto Ancaster Creek near Hamilton is the site for an intergenerational home where the elderly couple can gracefully age in place, alongside, but independently of, their children. The house was conceived as two distinct residences stacked in a perpendicular, L-shaped configuration. The parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suite is laid out as a ground-floor accessible apartment with features to mitigate memory loss, such as a master power switch that will shut off the bedroom BEST OF CANADA 2018

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reading light as well as any stove burners left on inadvertently. The kitchen occupies a 20-foot-tall pyramidal volume. Even more dramatic is the laminated plywood spiral staircase whose radius expands as it rises. The white oak railings are structural elements that eliminate the need for a steel frame. One marvels at the construction budget to execute so immaculately this essay in Platonic forms without recourse to mouldings, and nary a screw or fastener in sight.

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Office

Stéphane Groleau

Creaform Headquarters Lévis, QC

Coarchitecture Québec City

The new headquarters of Creaform, a leader in optical 3D measurements and engineering, is located in Innoparc Lévis, an industrial park for technology and science businesses near Québec City. Designed to attain LEED-NC-2009 certification, the building has an environmentally friendly layout that preserved green spaces and trees on the site. Inside, in shared areas, a superstructure of exposed glulam beams and wood-plank ceilings rises above white-painted steel H-beams,

an aesthetic emphasizing the building’s connection with nature. The ground floor encompasses production-related activities. Upstairs, a Main Street-like circulation spine dotted with flexible collaboration zones and glassed-in conference rooms connects seven administrative-department “neighbourhoods.” A large skylight bathes central spaces in natural light. Open work spaces lay along the perimeter of the building, giving all staff members access to daylight and views.

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OMERS Toronto

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The new office for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, the giant pension fund known as OMERS, integrates the different working styles of 1,500 employees who had previously worked in separate locations. The planning strategy increased density and reduced private offices. By providing a range of solutions, from acoustical sound masking to increasing the variety of work settings, employees benefit from that sense of belonging to a BEST OF CANADA 2018

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closely knit group that an open plan provides without losing access to private spaces when the necessity arises. Introducing a single centralized reception desk — delineated above by a boogie-woogie of lighting troughs and below by a herringbone parquet flooring sector — and conference centre to serve the office’s three storeys fosters chance encounters and collision points between the business units, further augmenting corporate esprit de corps.

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Institutional

Tom Arban

The Waterdown Library and Civic Centre Hamilton, ON

RDH Architects (RDHA) Toronto

Within its 23,500 square feet, the Waterdown Library and Civic Centre, located in the Waterdown suburb of Hamilton, embraces a public library, archive, recreation rooms and municipal, community and police services outlets. Perched atop the Niagara Escarpment, the facility exploits its topography by being organized as a splitlevel building spread over six levels, each of which is accessible by barrier-free walkways with a 1:25 slope (a change of one foot in height per 25 feet of length). The main reading room sits at the summit and offers striking views of the escarpment and beyond to BEST OF CANADA 2018

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Lake Ontario. Sustainable initiatives include a handsomely detailed, glazed curtain wall to maximize daylight; fritted glass and wood fins on the curtain wall as solar-screening devices; recycled material including Douglas fir wall panels and fins salvaged from Hamilton Central Library renovations; locally available and lowV.O.C. materials (materials that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t emit volatile organic compounds such as benzene, which can irritate mucus membranes); a flowering orchard to shade parking areas; green roofs; and bioswales in parking lots and green spaces.

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Lisa Logan

North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit North Bay, ON

Mitchell Jensen Architects Inc. jv. w/ Carlyle Design Associates Ottawa

The North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit is a 58,000-sq.-ft., 150-person facility promoting health and emergency preparedness for 31 northern Ontario municipalities. Movement within the rectangular building is expressed by a serpentine lobby wall behind the reception desk, visible through the Douglas fir curtain wall facing the street. The desk faces a monumental feature wall clad in Adair limestone. Here rises the grand staircase. Wrapping around its base

is a long, low bench positioned so as to encourage spontaneous sitdown chats. To maximize access to daylight, views and operable windows in the open office area, workstations cluster along spines running perpendicular to windows. The site was chosen not only for its proximity to public transportation, but to bike paths, walkways and to Lake Nipissing and outdoor recreation areas, in keeping with the Health Unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective of promoting a healthy, active lifestyle.

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Niagara College Student Commons Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON

Gow Hastings Architects Toronto

At Niagara College, the new learning commons and cafeteria has become one of the most sought-after spaces on campus, says Gow Hastings Architects, who renovated the former gym and cafeteria. The existing facility had an unsightly divider splitting the space into two; the new design breaks down the large volume through subtler means into activity zones for eating, socializing and group and individual study. By eliminating the physical barrier, the cafeteria was doubled in size, allowing it to offer additional seating in the informal BEST OF CANADA 2018

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lounge area while keeping the space open and flexible for popular events like job fairs. A bulkhead with acoustically absorbent aluminum slats lowers the double-height ceiling over the cafeteria area to make it feel more intimate. Strip LED lights strategically integrated within the slat system provide texture and depth to break up the bulkheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mass. Flanking the bulkhead, custom lighting made by joining two LED strip lights to form a cruciform-shaped pendant light further helps to create a distinctive sense of place.

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Hospitality

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Andaz Ottawa Byward Market Ottawa

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Andaz, a lifestyle boutique marque within the extended Hyatt Hotel family, chose Ottawa’s Byward Market, a premier tourist destination, for its first Canadian outpost. The mandate for the 200-guestroom hostelry was a refined yet casual atmosphere that connects guests to the community and Canadian design and culture. To that end, art throughout the property is exclusively Canadian. CanCon likewise pervades furniture, lighting and the materials palette: a local art student even designed guest key envelopes and information folders. The 2,300-sq.-ft., 80-seat BEST OF CANADA 2018

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restaurant features an open kitchen allowing guests to watch preparation of the upmarket, farm-to-table fare. The “money shot” is the black-stained wood pergola expressing, in highly abstracted form, surrounding farmland crop patterns. The pergola frames the restaurant entry, maître d’ station (whose sculpted front evokes Lake Ontario shoreline) and communal table. Guestroom finishes are notable for their natural oak and copper, the later material being a nod to the copper and bronze roofs topping the Parliament buildings in view.

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The Walper Hotel Kitchener, ON

Dubbeldam Architecture + Design jv. w/ Jill Greaves Design, Dialogue 38 Inc. Toronto

Saved from the wrecker’s ball and transformed into KitchenerWaterloo’s only four-star boutique hotel, The Walper Hotel is set to resume the pivotal role it played in the city’s social and cultural scene for many years after opening in 1893. In recent times, its dated accommodations were unable to meet the demands of modern business travellers and locavore millennials. A $10-million renovation preserved the hotel’s charming heritage façade while gutting the interior. In ground-floor public spaces, conventional

crown mouldings, wainscoting and trim complement playful contemporary light fixtures, seating and, in the lobby, a mosaic tile floor with a custom pixelated pattern inspired by the downtown street grid. Each of the 92 new guest rooms is unique and contains custom millwork and furnishings, with warm walnut and ash predominant. Full-height monochrome graphics on feature walls and high-gloss, brightly coloured doors will please connoisseurs of upmarket hotels.

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Kerun Ip

MA Chinese St. Catharines, ON

Dialogue 38 Inc. Toronto

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Colin Faulkner

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In a former industrial area of Toronto’s Junction Triangle now sporting design firms, residential developments and the new Museum of Contemporary Art stands a renovated condiments factory now occupied by the Drake Commissary. The 8,000-sq.-ft. space, the latest of John Tong’s Drake Hotel-related commissions, includes a large production kitchen, Drake’s new catering arm and a bakery. The tongue-in-cheek hipster décor jumbles funky second-hand Sixties living room furniture, a contemporaneous Photoautomat instant-

photo booth from Berlin, and doors painted deep green that evoke decommissioned factories. In the restaurant, custom-designed powder-coated green disc light fixtures and wooden dowels on aircraft cables add a layered texture to the ceiling. Wood tabletops were custom painted by Toronto artist Dahae Song. A row of Tong’s own One Arm Stools reposes at the bar, whose billowing perforated powder-coated white-screen front was inspired by French architect and Le Corbusier associate Jean Prouvé.

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Printemps Haussmann Verticalité Paris, France

UUfie Toronto

As part of the renovation of Printemps, the Paris department store founded in 1865, a 43- by 26-foot void was cut into each floor, introducing a new central atrium and circulation space that allows visitors to move more easily through all levels, from the lower ground floor to the ninth. UUfie’s concave, veil-like screen, 84-feet 1 high, 41-feet wide and weighing 24 tons, rises along one side of the void. The screen’s sculpted curved surface is punctured by over BEST OF CANADA 2018

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17,000 flower petal-like openings based on a stained-glass detail in the store’s corner domes. Some of the openings are filled with dichroic glass, which changes colour in sync with the visitor’s viewing angle. Across from the screen, on the opposite side of the void, a one-way mirror wall conceals 12 2 newly installed escalators. The phantom image of the reflected screen combines with the real one to create an enthralling illusory widened elliptical void.

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Exhibit

Tom Arban

How Bright is Our Future Toronto

Design Workshop Architects Toronto

At the Interior Design Show this past January, show-goers who enjoy doing surveys could mosey over to a black-shrouded dark space in the front of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building where they encountered five tall, blade-shaped structures made of wood, cloth, rope, steel and Japanese washi paper, which is tougher than the standard wood-pulp product. Printed on each blade were 10 statements, each from a different category of technology deemed to be critical to the future of our society: nano-

technology; genetic engineering; artificial intelligence; augmented reality; connectivity; drones; automation and mass customization. So, to the assertion that “A computer can learn to do anything that a person can do,” or “You can control your technology with your mind,” visitors were invited to push buttons corresponding to whether they reacted to the premise with fear or hope. The light level of the blade brightened or dimmed depending on the response; results were also projected onto a screen at the rear of the space.

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Product

F4 conference chair for Stylex Delanco, N.J.

Fig40 Toronto

The program for the F4 line of user-responsive conference and touchdown task seating called for a comfortable sit, a slight range of motion and minimal, intuitive adjustments, for gas-lift height and tilt lock. The reactive seat-support system enhances comfort and reduces user fatigue, while the integrated tilt mechanism moves in harmony with the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural axis of hip rotation. A cast yoke accommodates the adjustment mechanism in its rails while leaving the seat area open below to flex freely. BEST OF CANADA 2018

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The limited range of motion permitted Fig40 to create a form that reads as monolithic, with the slightest of splits between the seat and back structure. The seat straddles this split, connecting to both sides and flexing with the back. When the back reclines, a gap never opens at the back of the seat. The design was influenced by the low-profile suspension of Corvette sports cars; Fig40 partner Terence Woodsideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first job was as a mechanical engineer in the automotive industry.

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Product

Gateway height-adjustable mobile table Nienkämper Toronto

In an era when “sitting is the new smoking,” sit-to-stand desks have become a de rigueur offering in an office-furniture manufacturer’s line-up. Trouble is, many of these products suffer from industrial, utilitarian ugliness. Nienkämper’s entry into this hotly competitive field, however, is graceful, from top (the rounded edge work surface) to bottom (the tapering legs on glides or low-profile locking casters). Height adjustment is by push-button. Table tops are available in

wood veneer or laminate with optional upholstered acoustic privacy panels. A rechargeable battery discreetly mounted to the underside of the table makes re-configuration simple, with no cords to manage. The mobile table is a part of Nienkämper’s Gateway range, which includes tables, media walls, lounge seating and accessories. They can be used individually or in concert to create concepts ranging from small informal meetings to large lounge groups.

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