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“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Eliel Saarinen (1873–1950)

This famous quotation is very true of our work. When designing products for the built environment you have to understand how they will contribute to the whole picture, how they integrate with the structure and services and when in the construction process they will be installed. An appreciation of context is vital to our work in other sectors too, as scientific and medical products are not used in isolation but need to work harmoniously with other pieces of kit.

Other examples you may find interesting

Multilab laboratories

Cross-fertilisation of ideas from the office furniture sector into the laboratory environment.
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Kinnarps SquareOne

A low-cost, multi-purpose stacking chair designed for robotic manufacture.
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Corsair for WJ White

How we engineered a new table range to meet the challenges of flexible meeting spaces.
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“The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”

Robert M. Pirsig (1928-)
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Case study

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Other examples you may find interesting

Multilab laboratories

Kinnarps SquareOne

Corsair for WJ White

“The solutions all are simple – after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”