contract furniture

She has reservations about its usefulness and cost effectiveness, however, particularly at a time when the contract furniture industry is shrinking.

Contract furniture is the industry's term for office furniture.

Crypton quickly found a niche among contract furniture makers, particularly those selling to the health care industry.

Dietiker became a leader in Switzerland and Europe in the contract furniture market.

His mother is an account manager at EvensonBest, a contract furniture distributor in New York.

In 1929 the Brixton store started selling contract furniture, eventually expanding and moving to Bicester.

The Contract Furniture Division manufactures wooden furniture specified to end-user needs.

Her father is the president of Justco Inc., a contract furniture brokerage in Chappaqua.

Huge contract furniture companies like Steelcase and Herman Miller took long-term leases for showrooms.

The final contract furniture project was a stack chair for Stylex, the Bounce chair, introduced in 1997 and still in production through 2013.

"We spent a year and a half trying to develop the building as a showroom for the contract furniture industry, but the companies involved could not make it work," he said.

"We're trying to work with our tenants and the industry to maintain the I.D.C.N.Y. as a major contract furniture showplace."

In the 1980s, he became a business partner and CEO of Vitra USA, the world's leading contract furniture manufacturing firm.

"Among the contract furniture industry," Mr. Schulweis said, "certainly the dominant companies are located at I.D.C.N.Y.

The Pace Collection furniture designs were all distinctly different from those offered by Knoll (company), Herman Miller, Steelcase and other contract furniture companies.

"Donghia, AI, Knoll, Stendig, Brickel and ICF, all the major contract furniture companies have had a tremendous impact on home furnishings," he said.

The Tongue chair is now back to the design and furniture industry and is restored in original design by Danish contract furniture manufacturer Howe a/s (Middelfart, Denmark).

Rowland continuously worked with development of the 40/4 chair, and the year 2000 was the first year the new improved versions became development projects in cooperation with Danish contract furniture manufacturer Howe a/s.

First introduced in 1964 as the Action Office I product line, then superseded by the Action Office II series, it is an influential design in the history of "contract furniture" (office furniture).

La Crosse and OMD focus on the office machines industry, as well as e-automate, which is owned by Digital Gateway, Inc., and TeamDesign on the contract furniture business.

Then, when neither buyers nor sellers stormed the doors, Plan B seemed a surefire winner: Fill the showrooms with enough contract furniture - the industry term for corporate furniture bought in bulk - to make the place a must-visit destination for anyone outfitting an office.

Proximity was the key for A.F.D. Contract Furniture, which moved from 8 West 38th Street not to be close to Lincoln Center but to be within walking distance of Steelcase Inc., which had just bought a building at 4 Columbus Circle.

Upon his return to the UK he was involved with many VC's and also had spells running businesses in Continental Europe, Mothercare, Cirio Cetterio,and for a second time,a furniture manufacturing,retailing and contract furniture business in Shanghai.

Mr. and Mrs. Duffy work in the office furniture industry in New York, she as a market manager for Steelcase, a manufacturer, and he as a vice president and a sales manager at AFD Contract Furniture, a sales company.