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Shaping the Dynamic Workplace: An Overview of Recent Knoll Research

The Metrics of Distributed Work: Financial and Performance Benefits of an Emerging Work Model

Implementing Integrated Work to Create a Dynamic Workplace

Office Ergonomic Standards: A Layperson’s Guide

Holistic Ergonomics for the Evolving Nature of Work

It’s not a chair. It’s a movement. That’s the theme for the revolutionary Generation Chair from Knoll and available exclusively from Mason, Inc. in the low country, southeast Georgia, and the coastal empire. This chair promises to change the way we sit and work in our office environments. We are thrilled to be able to bring this product to market.

Generation by Knoll offers a new standard of comfort and unrestrained movement, supporting the range of postures and work styles typical of today’s workplace. Designed by Formway Design, Generation takes the idea of elastic design—where a product rearranges itself in response to its user—to a new level.

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Awards
Best of NeoCon Gold Award for Seating: Desk/Workstation Task Chairs, 2009
Sustainable Design

Here are the details:
• Rated Sustainable Platinum under the SMaRT© Consensus Sustainable Product Standards
• GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified®
• GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certified
• Recycled content of 40% (plastic base version) and 46% (aluminum base version)
• 39% (plastic base) to 54% (aluminum base) of parts are readily recyclable
• Constructed using minimal materials
• Manufactured using clean technologies in the Knoll LEED® Gold and ISO 14001 Certified Lubin Building, where energy use is offset with electricity generated by wind power
• Generation by Knoll can contribute to achieving LEED® credits, including the Innovation in Design credit
• Generation by Knoll Chairs comply with ANSI-BIFMA x5.1-2002

With intuitive adjustments, a slim silhouette and broad color and finish palette, Life sets the standard for ergonomics and innovative design. The advanced control automatically adjusts to the weight of the body, providing personalized and effortless ergonomic support.

Rated Sustainable Gold under the SMaRT© Consensus Sustainable Product Standard, Life exemplifies Knoll’s steadfast commitment to the environment.

• Synchronized recline with auto-balanced tension
• Knit back suspension fabric in 14 colors
• Flexing seatpan with waterfall edge and 4″ sliding seat depth
• Four base options and four arm options or armless

Awards

Best of NeoCon Gold Award for Seating: Desk/Workstation Task Chairs, 2002
IIDEX for Office Seating and Sustainable Design, 2002
Good Design Award, Chicago Athenaeum, 2003
Designed by Formway Design for Knoll

Simple, easy-to-use and a great value, Essentials Work Chairs are suited to any office style from the traditional to the progressive.

The EWC Sport task chair is a supportive, inviting work chair designed to be adaptable to any work environment. Simple, easy-to-use chairs that are not only affordable, but also maintain the Knoll tradition of superior design and quality. 24-hour, 7 days a week, 10-year, multi-shift warranty.

The EWC Pro task chair is a traditional, tailored, practical work chair designed to offer the ergonomic comfort and traditional appeal of a fully upholstered task chair at an incredible value.

The EWC Tech side chair was designed to accompany the EWC Tech Task Chair. The side chair on casters is the perfect pull-up chair for meeting, collaborative, or training areas.

Two Thumbs Up!

Knoll’s awesome Generation chair was recently featured in Wired Magazine.

“Before building prototypes of the Knoll Generation chair, designers spent hundreds of hours watching video of office workers. What they learned: Nobody sits still. Even the most slothful desk jockeys lean, twist, and turn. Where ordinary office chairs have rigid frames that limit movement, the Generation boasts an elastomer backrest that’s more flexible than a sideshow contortionist. Bend, twist, stretch out for a nap — you’ll feel almost weightless. Even better, the slick, nearly tip-proof base could give the clumsiest oaf a Shaolin level of stability, so you can recline without fear of cracking your head open.”

ReGeneration is in the middle

Knoll introduces the ReGeneration, the newest member of the Generation by Knoll family of chairs. The Generation family, designed by New Zealand-based Formway Design, promotes comfort and freedom of movement through material and design innovation. In addition to ReGeneration, the family includes the award-winning Best of NeoCon Gold Generation by Knoll work chair and MultiGeneration by Knoll, a multi-purpose chair for complementary seating applications.

Task Oriented

In the spirit of Generation by Knoll, ReGeneration lets you “sit how you want.” Innovative in its simplicity, ReGeneration delivers a unique combination of responsive performance, efficient design and overall value. Leveraging a flexible and durable high performance elastomer in both the Flex Back Net and Dynamic Suspension control, ReGeneration offers simplicity without sacrificing key performance attributes. The Flex Back Net model features a high performance elastomer that gives you the experience of being cradled — like by a net or hammock. Available late 2011.

Reff is Refined

Reff Profiles planning paradigms for administrative and reception areas expand the progressive, architectural presence of Reff Profiles for private offices while maintaining Reff’s historical benefits of wood excellence and planning flexibility. These innovations won Silver at NEOCON 2011 in the Enhancements Category.

Information Rich

Blending inspirational photography and interactive features, the new information-rich Knoll Antenna Workspaces microsite serves up extensive planning and product information for the Best of NeoCon 2010 Innovation and Good Design Award 2010 winner. knoll.com/antenna features interactive photography, video animations and new tools that allow visitors to learn about Antenna Workspaces, a new workspace fit for task and team, in a whole new way.

Interactivity at its best

Antenna Workspaces is a new approach to the workplace that supports the freedom and mobility people seek in today’s office. Desks, tables, screens and storage combine and recombine in a seemingly infinite number of ways for open plan environments, private offices and meeting spaces.

Features:
Learn, a section providing background on Knoll Design and Workplace Experience, the Antenna Workspaces Idea and Concept, and the Sustainable Design story behind the product.

Sections for each of the six Antenna Workspaces planning modes — Table and Desk, Linked Desks, Big Table, Antenna + Fence, Antenna + Template and Private Office.

Functional and Feature Rich

Each section provides in-depth information relating to each planning mode, featuring:

A large interactive photograph illustrating product details
A video animation showing assembly and various planning ideas
Links to more planning ideas, signature finishes, project profiles and the Cool Hunting video
Links to share pages on Facebook and Twitter
PDF Downloads, including the Price List with Planning Guide, brochure, research and sustainability documents
Antenna Workspaces in the news
A Summary of Awards
A Sustainability Information

Architectural Lines

Conceived to celebrate dominant, unbroken horizontal and linear forms, The Graham Collection is finely crafted furniture for the high-performance private office.

Drawing inspiration as much from cultural references to Modernism as from contemporary functional concerns, The Graham Collection achieves a simple, functional and elegant aesthetic with a range of expression in materials and detailing that reinforces the Knoll commitment to clear, honest design.

Form follows Function

Workwall Storage with Peninsula Desks

Peninsula desks punctuate low and full-height horizon workwall storage, combining functionality with elegance and refinement.