file by Contemporan

www.davisfurniture.com

2012

Contents 04 Tre

54 Ginkgo

08 C.R. Lounge

58 PLC Chair

12 Perch

60 Loop

14 Fina

62 Sketch

16 Prat

64 Meo

18 Sketch

66 PLC Lounge

20 Webb Curve

68 Soft

22 Exo

70 Lipse Too

26 Fenix

72 Webb Lounge

28 Body

74 Polar

30 Sola

76 Aero

32 Webb

78 Kontour

34 Lucid

80 Method

36 Ekko

82 Radius

40 Tune

84 Palette

42 Tix

86 Site

44 Milano

88 Collection

48 Lipse

90 Awards

50 Kirkos

92 Designers

52 Prime

96 Locations

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Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; design philosophy is best expressed as a marriage of two ideals: beautiful form and practical functionality. We commit significant time and resources in developing our products with award winning designers. These designs are handcrafted in North Carolina by Davis Furniture, a company rich in tradition, owned and operated by the Davis family for 68 years.

design is a choice.

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Jehs+Laub

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C.R. Lounge Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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C.R. Lounge

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Perch

Davis Design Team

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Fina

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Prat

Davis Design Team

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Sketch

Burkhard Vogtherr & Jonathan Prestwich

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Webb Curve Vogtherr & Dรถrner

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Exo

Burkhard Vogtherr

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Exo

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Fenix

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Body Burkhard Vogtherr

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Sola

Justus Kolberg

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Webb

Burkhard Vogtherr

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Lucid

Burkhard Vogtherr

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Ekko

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Ekko

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Tune

Jehs+Laub

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Tix

Dante Bonuccelli

The advantages of solid wood reach far beyond its magnificent aesthetics. It is heirloom quality and designed to last for generations. Great care is taken during the harvesting process, ensuring environmental responsibility.

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Milano

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Milano

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Lipse

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Kirkos

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Prime

Professor Thomas M. F端rst

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Ginkgo Jehs+Laub

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Ginkgo

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PLC Chair PearsonLloyd

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Loop

Burkhard Vogtherr

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Sketch

Burkhard Vogtherr & Jonathan Prestwich

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Meo

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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PLC Lounge PearsonLloyd

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Soft

Jehs+Laub

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Lipse Too

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Webb Lounge Burkhard Vogtherr

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Polar

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Aero

Lievore Altherr Molina

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Kontour

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Method

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Radius

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Palette

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

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Site

Jess Sorel & Otto Williams

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Collection

Multi-Purpose

Lounge

Executive

Chat (not shown)

Body p.28

Exo p22

Sola p.30

Site p.86

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MilanoLight p.44

MilanoSoft (not shown)

Perch p.12

PLC Chair p.58

Sketch p.18 / p.62

Tre p.4

Gemini (not shown)

C.R. Lounge p.8

MilanoLounge (not shown)

PLC Lounge p.66

Webb Curve p.20

Webb Lounge p.72

Lipse Too p.70

Meo p.64

Mikado Lounge (not shown)

Soft p.68

Polar p.74

Zeno (not shown)

Tables and Desking

Basic (not shown)

CarrĂŠ (not shown)

Lipse p.48

Kirkos p.50

Webb Executive p.32 Prime p.52

Alternative Conference

Ginkgo p.54

Fenix p.26

Loop p.60

Lucid p.34

Fina p.14

Ekko p.36

Tune p.40

Prat p.16

Veer p.50

Tix p.42

Zoom (not shown)

Webb Meeting (not shown)

Kontour p.78

Aero p.76

Palette p.84

Radius p.82

Method p.80

Radius Meeting p.82

ZA (not shown)

Hover (not shown)

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Awards Aero

Kirkos

Site

2004 reddot Product Design Award

2004 IF Design Award

Kontour

Furniture

Seating: Contract – Public/Transportation

2003 Best of Competition - Neocon Overall Product

Zeno

2003 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award - Lounge Seating

Seating: Sofas & Lounge

Award Honoree

1997 Good Industrial Design Award - Netherlands

2003 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

Sola

1998 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award - Seating: Sofas & Chairs

2003 ADEX Gold Award

Lipse

Zoom

Body

2003 IIDA Acclaim Awards - Best of Show

Seating: Conference

1995 Best of NeoCon - Best of Competition - Overall Product

2003 IIDA Acclaim Awards - Guest Chair Corporate Division

Tix

1997 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

Ergonomic: Executive/Guest

2002 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award - Seating: Side Chairs

1997 ADEX Award - Furniture: Conference Room -

2002 Best of Show Award - Design Journal

and Credenzas

Carré

2002 ADEX Platinum Award - Design Journal

- Furniture/Seating/Multi-use

Furniture/Contract-Conference Tables

Tables: Conferencing and Training

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1998 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

Loop

1998 ADEX Award - Contract: Conference Table -

2007 Best of NeoCon – Silver Award – 2008 reddot P roduct Design Award 1998 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award -

2006 Best of NeoCon – Silver Award – Seating: Guest 2011 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award 2011 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

2002 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

ZA 2010 Best of NeoCon Gold Award - Conference Room 2010 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year

2011 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award -

2007 Best of NeoCon – Silver Award – Casegoods: Desks

2008 Best of NeoCon - Silver Award – Seating: Guest

Tune

2009 reddot Product Design Award

Lucid

Webb Lounge

Ekko

2005 Platinum ADEX Award - Design Journal

1997 Good Industrial Design Award - Netherlands

1998 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award - Seating: Sofas & Chairs

2004 Design Journal Best of Show

Conference Room Furniture

2001 reddot Product Design Award

Webb Meeting

2000 Best of NeoCon - Silver Award -

2011 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

2002 Best of NeoCon - Silver Award - Alternative Office

Fenix

Seating: Executive Desk Chairs

2002 ADEX Gold Award - Design Journal -

Milano

Furniture/Seating/Conference

Seating: Ergonomic Desk/Task

Ginkgo

Palette

Germany

2011 Best of NeoCon - Silver Award - Seating: Guest

2011 Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum

Sofa & Chairs

2008 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award –

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2007 Best of NeoCon – Silver Award – Guest Seating 2000 Best of NeoCon - Silver Award - Seating:

2000 Best of L.A. DesignWeek - Design Journal

2000 Good Design Award

Design Journal

2012 reddot Product Design Award

2011 Best of NeoCon - Gold Award -

2006 Interior Design Best of Year Award –

2007 Interior Design Best of Year Award –

Design Journal 1999 Best of L.A. Design Week - Design Journal

2003 Baden-Wurttemberg International Design Award 2003 reddot Product Design Award

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Designers Martin Ballendat

Ch@t

Jehs + Laub

Tune, Ginkgo, Soft, Tre

Martin Ballendat has been a successful designer for over 20 years. After having held leading positions

Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub met each other during the academic studies of industrial design at the

in the furniture sector for 10 years, he set up his own company. Now he has 12 staff members and two

Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwaebisch Gmuend and became friends after an internship in New York

offices, one in Austria and one in Germany. In addition to projects in 12 different countries, i.e.

in 1990. After they graduated in 1992 they set up Jehs + Laub in 1994. From that time on they started

Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States, Ballendat is a visiting

to design furniture and lamps for Italian companies, such as Cassina, Ycami and Nemo. Year by year

professor at the University of Design in Graz and Salzburg. He has received more than 70 awards,

they expanded the cooperation with international brands like Thonet, Fritz Hansen, Belux, Renz, Stelton,

such as Best of NeoCon ; reddot ; IF Award ; Best of Best Cologne; and Focus Green, to name a few.

Fambuena, Schoenbuch and Cor.

Dante Bonuccelli

PearsonLloyd

Tix

PLC Chair & Lounge

Dante Bonuccelli’s focus is designing buildings, interiors, and products in Europe, United States, and

Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson founded PearsonLloyd in 1997 and have since completed a wide breadth

Asia. In 1998 he founded his architecture and design office, Avenue Architects, in Milan where he works

of projects which looks into the relationship between people and their built environments. The work

today. He is a design consultant for Unifor, Dada, Mobimex, Schoenbuch. Bonuccelli has received

spans across different sectors such as Workplace, Aircraft, Public Realm, and Healthcare. The studio

numerous awards for his architecture and products. His designs have been shown in exhibitions in

has created investigative and research based work that balances build, efficiency, user needs and

Italy, Argentina, United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and Singapore.

ergonomics, resulting in products that are not only beautiful, but functionally appropriate. Recent awards include the Gold DBA Design Effectiveness award for Virgin Atlantics Upper Class and Premium Economy Seat. In 2008, Tom and Luke were awarded the distinction of Royal Designers of Industry.

Justus Kolberg

Sola

Justus Kolberg has quickly established himself as a well-known designer. His remarkable career is the

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger, after years of working as a freelance designer opened his own design studio in

earned his industrial design degree from Muthesius School in Kiel, Germany in 1990 and held positions

1983 in Eislingen near Stuttgart, Germany. Mezger and his team work in Goppingen for internationally renowned companies in the United States, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland, and Germany. So far his studio has recieved more than 50 international Design Awards such as Best of NeoCon and Good Design Award, Chicago; Roter Punkt and reddot; Dutch Furniture Award, Amsterdam; Roscoe Design Award, New York, Design Center, Stuttgart.

designer working with a multitude of international companies. He has received many awards such as, 1st prize Design Champion ; 1st prize Design-Week-Award Great Britain ; IDEA-Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award ; and reddot nine times.

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Zeno, Palette, Gemini, Lipse, Polar, Radius, Meo, Method, Milano,

result of his intelligent designs, which he incorporates into modern technical architecture. Kolberg in Spain and Germany before striking out on his own. He has since become a successful freelance

Wolfgang C.R. Mezger

Kirkos, Radius, Radius Meeting, Fenix, Lipse Too, Kontour, Ekko, Fina, C.R. Lounge

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Designers Lievore Altherr Molina

Aero

The Lievore Altherr Molina studio was created in 1991 by the merging of three partners: Alberto

Burkhard Vogtherr

Body, Lucid, Motion, Webb, Loop, Mikado Lounge, Sketch

Webb Lounge, Webb Meeting, Exo, Webb Curve

Lievore, Jeannette Altherr, and Manel Molina. Since its founding, the studio has been devoted to

As one of the most well known European designers, Burkhard Vogtherr has won about every award

product design, consulting and the art direction of various companies, always offering individualized solutions. The studio has been awarded many national and international awards, including Spain’s National Design Award in 1999.

in Europe and the United States for seating design. Davis’ relationship with Burkhard goes back to the mid 80’s when he designed Motion, a new type of ergonomic chair. Since then he has worked with multiple international companies such as Arco, Cappellini, Sellex, and Girsberger and won many awards. Some of the awards he has received are Best of NeoCon; reddot; Furniture of the Year; and IF.

Jonathan Prestwich

Sketch

Otto Williams

Site

After finishing school Jonathan Prestwich started his design career in Boston, Massachusetts where he

Otto Williams founded his California-based studio in 2008 to design furniture, consumer products,

stayed briefly before heading to France to work with one of Davis’ veteran designers Burkhard

lighting, and environments that are rooted at the intersection of art and industry. As a graduate of the

Vogtherr. After six years with Burkhard as a mentor, Jonathan moved to London where he opened

Rhode Island School of Design, Williams explores the relationship between work style and lifestyle. Williams responds to new attitudes about work, but takes inspiration from objects and environments that surprise and delight in our broader human context.

his own studio. Jonathan has brought his experience together with a desire to make products for the next generation of users, fusing influences from nature and modern technology, with a goal to create simple, elegant, innovative products.

Jess Sorel

Site

Jess Sorel has been in the contract furniture industry for nearly twenty years. Based on his extensive experience he establised sorelstudio. The studio was founded on the idea that collaboration is a powerful tool that drives projects to become more then just limited thoughts of a single individual. Jess holds numerous design and utility patents and his work has been featured in Abitare, Azure, Blueprint, Contract, Domus, Dwell, Fast Company, I.D. Magazine, Interior Design, and Metropolis.

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Aero Bench Series - Licensed by Sellex Basic Table Series - Licensed by B&W Ch@t Chair Series - Licensed by Wiesner-Hager Carré Table Series - Licensed by Wilhelm Renz GmbH & Co. Exo Chair Series - Licensed by Girsberger Fina Chair Series - Licensed by Brunner Gemini Lounge Series - Licensed by Art Collection / Haworth Mikado Lounge Series - Licensed by Arco Meubelfabrick bv Milano Chair Series - Licensed by Brunner

PLC Chair & PLC Lounge Series - Licensed by Modus Prime Chair Series - Licensed by Brunner Sketch Chair Series - Licensed by Arco Meubelfabrick bv Tix Table Series - Licensed by Mobimex Tune Table Series - Licensed by Wilhelm Renz GmbH & Co. Zeno Chair Series - Licensed by Artifort Zoom Table Series - Licensed by Mobimex

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Locations www.davisfurniture.com Headquarters

2401 South College Drive

PO Box 2065

High Point, NC 27261

Phone: 336-889-2009

Fax: 336-889-0031

mail@davisfurniture.com Showrooms Chicago

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza

Suite 3-115

Chicago, IL 60654

Phone: 312-822-9363

Fax: 630-587-0919

jl@onesourcechicago.com

New York

200 Lexington Ave

13th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Phone: 212-683-7272

Fax: 212-683-7023

mail@njmltd.com

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