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At Designers Saturday you can find out about the very latest innovation in office design. Each showroom will have its own theme and visitors will experience one off exhibits, workshops with industry experts, seminars and debate, along with networking and a broad array of refreshments at each location! To find out more about what’s taking place see below or click for more details…
WorldWideWorking
Our world is constantly changing. Through our global economy, it is all about what you can supply, provide and deliver, at all times and in all places. As a result we can determine where, when, how and with whom we want to work. Information technology makes it possible to exchange ideas, to co-operate, and to increase knowledge irrespective of time and place. Ahrend recognises and encourages this development. As part of an international network it supplies products and services that makes work ever more productive and pleasant, as well as contributing to the sharing of knowledge and information. Through this, we are contributing to sustainable working environments, both now and in the future. Come to our new show room and find out more.
Design plus engineering innovation
equals successful storage solutions
Bisley’s commitment to cutting-edge manufacturing and innovative engineering means that its range of workplace storage solutions effortlessly combine form and function. The result is a range that encompasses timeless classics as well as innovative new products.
Designers Saturday will give visitors the chance to experience how Bisley successfully marries stylish design with manufacturing and engineering. Rather than focusing on products as inanimate objects, Bisley will demonstrate how storage plays a dynamic role in creating an efficient working environment.
On display at Bisley’s Great Portland Street showroom will be its latest concept-led designs, aimed at meeting the demands of the future workplace.
What’s so good about glass?
For Designer's Saturday 2008, Faram will be launching Dinamico, our exciting new product range. Dinamico is a desking system that will change the way designers look at the modern office, promoting glass as a work surface, modular flexibility and endless configurations while always maintaining and complying with the principles of environmental ethics. Over the course of the two days, we are also hosting lunch on both days accompanied by Masi wines, a highly acclaimed vineyard from the Veneto region in Italy. We will be talking about glass in the modern office, and we will also be giving one lucky participant the chance to ride away on a brand new Vespa scooter. Saturday's lunch will also include Chef Antonio Tonelli exciting your taste buds from 12:30-3:00pm at which time we will be announcing the winner of our Vespa competition.
Faram will be opening from 10am - 6pm on both days.
Dedication to research
Come join us at Designer Saturday for a look at Herman Miller’s dedication to research and original
design that began in the 1930’s. Visitors will be treated to hands-on participation in the build and
decoration of brand new Herman Miller products as well as a chance to win a custom fit Aeron
chair. Learn about new design in ergonomics and get a real world look at the challenges and
solutions in creating true environment design and environmentally friendly production.
Home Sweet Home
In keeping with the family feel of the Designers Saturday event, Haworth will present ‘Home Sweet Home’ at their Brewhouse Yard showroom.
Home Sweet Home is a spectator led ‘generative art installation’ and is designed to include as many different members of the public as possible. One of the many exciting aspects of Home Sweet Home is that it creates a unique experience in each new environment it is performed in. On the “stage” we develop and create an infrastructure for a physical cardboard model urban space. This infrastructure includes a blank canvas for the village to be built up on, a set of flat pack homes, street lighting, surround sound, community buildings, etc. The project generates excitement for creatives, urban designers, architects, sociologists, psychotherapists … and most importantly, the general public who are enabled with a ‘playful’ means of expression about how they would like to live, or even a commentary on how they live now…. allowing architects and children alike to express their imaginations.
How healthy is your desk?
Founded in 1983, Humanscale is recognised as the leading manufacturer of ergonomic products for the office. Our diverse product range helps ensure that individuals, who spend hours each day in front of a computer, do so in maximum comfort and with minimal long-term health risks. To achieve this result, our philosophy regarding product design is this: Technology can make simple things complicated or complicated things simple. We believe in the latter approach and strive to design products that combine uncompromising function and sustainability with honest aesthetics and ultimate ease-of-use. Find out more at Designers Saturday…
Time and Space
KI are renowned experts in Storage and Meeting Room solutions. At Designers Saturday, we invite you to join us to interact with, and explore ideas and concepts relating to Time and Space in the office – with a little help from the Time Lord himself, and a few of his associates.
Welcoming Workplace
Kinnarps will be presenting the ‘Welcoming Workplace’ at Designers Saturday. This is an InnovationRCA project, part of the Royal College of Art’s network for business, which Kinnarps has been supporting. The Welcoming Workplace is an investigation into future workplace design for an aging population. Research is being undertaken in working offices in the UK, Japan and Australia and the results will be presented for the first time at Designers Saturday in an exhibition at Kinnarps’ Covent Garden showroom.
Knoll Past, Present and Future
For 70 years Knoll have worked with some of the world’s most celebrated designers from Mies van der Rohe to Ettore Sottsass.
For 6 weeks from July 18th Liberty will present an exhibition from Knoll past and present and future showing some familiar and some
less familiar pieces from our 70 years of supporting design.
For the first time in the UK, Liberty and Knoll will be showing pieces from Knoll’s latest collection from the New York designers Shelton Mindel
and previewing pieces from Ross Lovegrove’s latest collection which will be available for order later in the year.
In September, the furniture from the exhibition will be brought into the Knoll Showroom in Smithfield as part of the Designer’s Saturday event.
Place 2.5
Sedus' Place 2.5 concept helps us understand the new emotional office culture where the workplace can influence the business results and personnel issues that come together in modern office design. Encouraging a sense of purpose, fun, success and satisfaction are all increasingly important and design can play an important part in this. We will explore how acoustics has such an important role to play in the modern office environment, where real estate costs, new working practices, modern I.T and furniture solutions have affected noise in the office. And we’ll create some fun too!
Make way for the Millennials
Come and visit Steelcase’s brand new UK headquarters in Farringdon Road to experience the latest in design concepts for the next generation of workers...the Millennials (born between 1981 – 1999). Our research shows that the younger generation are bringing more to the workplace than tattoos, flipflops and ipods. They have new ways of collaborating, communicating and getting things done. We will be showcasing our latest technologies designed to cater for over 70 million young people who have been brought up with the internet, email, and instant messaging. This will include the highly publicised ‘Walkstation; ‘Thunder Pro’, a unique digital flipchart and online conferencing facility allowing you to input information from just about any source and ‘B Free Lounge’, a seating range to inspire work in the more forgotten areas of the office. Copies of our extensive research will also be available to take away.
Visitors should be involved in or have some connection or interest in office design and associated industries.
No one under the age of 16 will be able to attend Designers Saturday unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.