cobi: comfortable collaboration
Designed by the Steelcase Design Studio in collaboration with Luke Pearson of PearsonLloyd

In case you haven’t noticed, we spend more time in meetings today than ever before. Meetings in any office set-up (at home, meeting rooms, teleconferencing) requires changing postures and various degrees of support us.

We’ve all been there…squirming, fatigue, and loss of focus (sound familiar?) are unavoidable. Enter cobi.

Every part of cobi was designed to flex and adjust to your body. cobi’s top flexing edge lets you comfortably rest your arm on top of the chair. You know, like you’ve tried to do on every chair you’ve ever sat in, but this time it feels good.

cobi’s seat encourages you to move and shift, allowing you to sit centered or off to the sides. It’s even comfy to sit with your back against the arm…seriously.

cobi is great as a conference chair because it offers one manual adjustment (seat height). Research says we don’t adjust more than seat height on conference room chairs anyways. We sit down and move into the first item of discussion on the meeting agenda.

And, if you’re in meetings as often as I am (more than I’m at my desk), cobi is perfect! I’m not at my desk long enough throughout the day to require more adjustments…and if I had more adjustments, I don’t think I’d have the time to use them!

i2i: an intuitive seating arrangement
Designed by the Steelcase Design Studio in collaboration with Thomas Overthun of IDEO

Sometimes, you don’t need a conference room for meetings. You may only need a few chairs in which you and a small team can connect. And those big, stuff lounge chairs don’t cut it (unless you’re looking for a place to nap). You need a chair you can move, shift, and breathe in (not to mention looks nice too).

So…picture yourself in your non-conference room meeting. You have a lot to take in: people to your left and right, people straight ahead, and often a screen or laptop as a centerpiece. And don’t forget to say something intellectual. With all of that going on, how do you maintain focus and orientation without losing comfort? Answer = i2i.

i2i’s dual swivel mechanism keeps you focused where you need to be: keeping eye contact. The back and seat swivel independently, allowing you to change your posture without changing your orientation…and vice versa. You kinda got to see it to get it.

Your body requires you to move and shift. Tilt back, forward, left, or right. Slant your body in any direction. Slouch if your mother isn’t looking. i2i keeps you comfortable regardless of position. One less thing you need to think about.

In a world where connecting and collaborating is vital to success, the role of the workplace is to connect: people with people, people with information, people with tools they need to do their job and with the culture of their organization. The landscape of today’s workplace is changing. Footprints are shrinking while expectations are growing. People are looking for a variety of settings to choose how and where they want to collaborate. Today’s workspace needs to work harder by working smarter.

Because of this Steelcase created a whole new category of seating products designed specifically for the needs of collaboration. The cobi and i2i chairs were designed specifically to foster collaboration and were based on three key research observations that resulted in three key insights:

• Chairs should promote movement and be comfortable for long periods of time
• Adjustments should be automatic and intuitive
• Chairs should support multiple postures

Live/Work Collection by Coalesse

With products that fit as naturally in the office as the living room, Coalesse focuses on the increasingly growing similarities between work and life.

Coalesse is about a belief that the boundaries between work and life have blurred.

This is the inspiration for our new collection of products for live/work environments, and it brings together the rich design histories of three brands from the Steelcase family of companies – Brayton, Metro and Vecta – as part of the new Coalesse brand.

Coalesse’s premium live/work furnishings are for enlightened workers; it offers an opportunity for a new approach and feel to how people really work.

Where work is going.

Coalesse. Inspiration, everyday.

Walk, Work & Sit with the Sit-to-Walkstation from Details

Introducing the Sit-to-Walkstation (very similar to the infamous Walkstation). The table on the Sit-to-Walkstation has been expanded to allow room for a chair as well as a treadmill (brilliant!).

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Feel great. Burn calories. It’s as easy as a walk in the park.

Energize your workday with the Sit-to-Walkstation. Just choose how you want to work — sit, stand, or walk — with the push of a button.

The Sit-to-Walkstation combines a complete, low-speed treadmill with an electric, height-adjustable worksurface, so it’s easy to add movement and burn calories as you work, whenever you want. The result: better health and more energy. Not to mention less time at the gym, and more time for what matters.

The Sit-to-Walkstation. A great way to walk toward a healthier you.

The Walkstation was featured on the Today Show

Check out this not so recent Today show clip about the Walkstation that I just happen to come across today. The clip discusses how Mutual of Omaha Insurance is experimenting with the Walkstation treadmill desk. 16 employees are walking and working for 2 hours per day.

One lost one full dress size; the other lost 17 lbs in 12 weeks and others have much more energy. The hope is that employees will save on healthcare costs, take less sick days and be happier.

See the video here…Walkstation on the Today Show