With each new residential-styled office product, there seems to be the same adjectives: emotive, femininity, materiality – but this is exactly the way to make us feel more secure, more embraced, and less dispensable.AFAIK there is no tool to directly draw an open sector arc (without the 'slice lines' going to center).Įdit: I now know better. Consisting of one-seater, two-seater, and three-seater units cocooning from three sides, the soft seating system is “not so squarish, a little bit more round and more feminine,” when compared to traditional office furnishings, says Hayon. Plenium is Spanish artist and designer Jaime Hayon‘s first product for the contract market, designed for Danish furniture manufacturer Republic of Fritz Hansen.

Laptops and tablets can be placed on built-in table surfaces, while charging takes place from USB and power outlets below the seat.Īnother clever way to tackle the home to office trend – hire residential designers. However, more than just a sofa, Soft Work offers lumbar support in its back, with a higher, slightly firmer seat. Kinder, gentler and inherently more comfortable, the sofa has been a work destination since the invention of the laptop. “We strongly believe that the conventional office desk and chair are now dead and our system will replace that,” Barber says. Soft Work is a modular sofa system by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of design studio Barber & Osgerby for Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra. One of the most talked about launches at the fair makes working on the sofa official. Several manufacturers are betting hard that the homey office – the most visible trend at Orgatec – is here to stay.

With work increasingly taking place at both home and the office, it was only a matter of time before the home came to the office.

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