Pictured above, innovative oval shapped desks created in 1949 by Steelcase for the SC Johnson & Co. headquarters as designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.Steelcase began in 1912 as The Metal Office Furniture Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We received our first patent in 1914 for a steel wastebasket—a major innovation at a time when straw wastebaskets were a major office fire hazard. That led to metal desks, and we’ve led the way with product and service innovations ever since. Today, our portfolio of solutions address the three core elements of an office environment: interior architecture, furniture and technology. We changed our name to Steelcase in 1954 and became a publicly held company in 1998.
Although we are still headquartered in Grand Rapids, Steelcase today is an international company with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide, manufacturing facilities in over 30 locations and more than 800 dealer locations around the world.
To learn more about Steelcase, please visit our main corporate web site at www.steelcase.com.
