The Design Story of Freedom

The Design Story of Freedom

For Humanscale, Neils Diffrient replaced the locks, knobs and springs that are under older generation chairs with your body weight and the laws of physics so you can move effortlessly from one position to another, making it feel as if the chair were custom-made for you or whoever happens to be sitting in it at any given moment.

Stack, Hook In, Push: A New Modular System for Dynamic Offices

Stack, Hook In, Push: A New Modular System for Dynamic Offices

At the center of this is the classic whiteboard, which actually functions as the linchpin of a lively round of talks, and with boards completely gets rid of its inflexible location-bound nature: it can be picked up vertically or horizontally by all the furniture in the collection and repositioned with just a few flicks of the wrist. In this way, ideas travel with them and do not disappear.