Here Now is a new boutique contract furniture brand designed and manufactured in North Carolina. Born out of a desire to elevate domestic craftsmanship and creative collaboration in the contract furniture industry, Here Now is locally rooted in a broad worldview. Blurring the lines between varying design disciplines, Here Now offers architects, interior designers and workplace solutions providers a fresh perspective. Aesthetically minded and function focused, Here Now creates for the unique needs of today’s shared spaces and the people they serve. As a designer led brand, each piece in the collection examines the everchanging landscape of office and hospitality interiors.

Here Now is obsessed with providing inspiration and transformative experiences. The brand explores the boundaries of trend through vibrant expression and neutrality through the use of color—delivering functionality with delight—in a conscious effort to get design professionals excited to put it all together.

Continuing the furniture design and manufacturing tradition in North Carolina, Here Now sources and produces most of its designs within a 70-mile radius of Charlotte, NC. A close-to-home footprint—and an intentional way of doing things—bring the founders and team close to the product offering unparalleled agility with client-friendly inventory and lead times. Committed to a considered approach at every stage of the creative journey, Here Now adheres to a Craft-to-Career philosophy. Craft-to-Career is a new value proposition to those on the factory floor, reinvigorating what it means to be a Maker. Through its manufacturing, Here Now supports lucrative and career-sustaining vocations for the creatives who bring their designs to life.

Founding Story

Fresh off the 2020 sale of his successful California based lifestyle and functional accessory brand, Most Modest, award winning industrial designer Justin Champaign (@jchampaign) returned to North Carolina to build a new commercial furniture company focused on elevating domestic craftsmanship and creative collaboration. A brand born during the pandemic—a time that revealed an opportunity for change in the contract furniture industry—Justin tapped Derrick Hurst, a prolific industrial designer and engineer, to co-found Here Now and do things differently. With a successful track record of engaging industrial design and inspiring new ways of playing in commercial and residential interiors, Here Now invites you to continue the creative journey together.

“Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.” — Ram Dass

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