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Honorable Mention 2017 / Office Equipment / Professional

Canopy

  • Company
    Studio O+A, United States
  • Lead Designer
    Primo Orpilla
  • Design Team
    Emi Katagiri
  • Client
    Kimball Office
  • Project Link
I was eager to take the idea of customize-able
workstations to the next level. The result was
Canopy, a product I developed with Kimball
Office. Canopy moves beyond conventional
open plan benching to give each user a
versatile work tool that changes according to
the needs of the moment. While this product
will fit into any open plan, it may be modified to
give the user more acoustical and visual
privacy as needed. And Canopy’s height
adjustment capability—an elegant single-piston
mechanism that allows the user to raise or
lower the desk without disturbing colleagues—
is both a social and an ergonomic advance. If
there is a single direction to the many currents
of innovation that have flowed through
workplace design in recent times it is this
search for an office that liberates people to
work the way they want. That has been my
focus as a designer—and O+A’s as a studio—
for 25 years.
Photo Credit: Studio O+a