MB Contract Furniture would like to congratulate all of our partners that won awards at this year’s Best of NeoCon.
Since 1969, the NeoCon convention has been the world’s leading platform for the commercial design industry’s product launches. Best of NeoCon 2022 featured entrants were evaluated onsite by a diverse jury of close to 50 leading architects, designers, specifiers and facility managers with expertise spanning commercial, healthcare, education and hospitality sectors. Check out some of the fantastic new furnishings and designs that debuted at this year’s show.
And the winners are…
Category: Collections for Collaboration
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: OFS
Product: Fleet
At every scale, companies need to be ready to adapt: on an individual, group, and organizational level. Fleet is an answer to individual and group flexibility, enabling users to quickly redesign their space to meet personal and team needs. Offered as a collection of tables, seating, and planters, this expandable, mobile solution empowers users to craft the space to fit their needs.
Category: Collections for Collaboration
Award: Gold
Manufacturer: The Senator Group
Product: Adapt Wall
Individuals, as well as organizations, have all learned to react to new ways of working. This constant reaction to the change of an individual’s daily working routine was the catalyst for Adapt Wall. Born out of the idea to create mobile partitions — to enable more agile, fluid, and flexible spaces — empowering every user to create spaces that work for them at that moment.
Category: Conference Room Furniture
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: Enwork
Product: Ligouri Collection
Inspired by modernist design principals, Ligouri boasts clean lines, elegant connection points, and a family name. The Ligouri line celebrates natural elements as it combines solid wood with precision aluminum connections and detailing. Designed to elevate any environment, Ligouri stands alone as a statement piece or as a welcoming touch to inspire human connection and collaboration.
Category: Education Solutions
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: Carolina, an OFS company
Product: Sorta
Sorta was imagined for flexibility, blurring the lines between healthcare, workplace, and education to create a true solution that can adapt to a user’s needs. This playful seating design showcases a wide variety of color options, usage options, and innovation. Patients and caregivers can use the back as an armrest for blood-draw, or a convenient desk for paperwork. Students can use the arm as a work surface to accomplish tasks. However you work, Sorta works with you.
Category: Seating – Conference
Award: Gold
Manufacturer: HON
Product: Cofi Seating
You never get a second chance to make a first impression — so why not make a memorable one with Cofi? The sophisticated seating solution features a refined design, detailed stitching, and premium materials for a remarkably elevated feel. Whether you’re calling the shots in a private office or presiding over a board meeting in a conference room, Cofi’s variety of looks makes it easy to represent your company’s image.
Category: Seating – Guest
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: Hightower
Product: Gimbal Jr. Lounge
It rocks, it rolls, it can even swivel – Gimbal Jr., the newest addition to the Gimbal family, is a unique multi-use chair that functions in many scenarios in the public space. A comfortable alternative to a meeting chair or a small-scale lounge option, Gimbal Jr. will quickly become a fan favorite in any environment.
Category: Seating – Stools / Collections for Collaboration
Award: Gold, Innovation
Manufacturer: OM Seating
Product: Plot Twist
Conference rooms are for “voluntelling”. Desks? For nose-to-the-grindstone working. So, in the dotted line between those spaces, where can your creativity take flight? Where are those serendipitous ideas – those favorable plot twists – to be written?
Available 2023
Category: Storage
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: SAFCO Contract Furniture
Product: SAFCO Boundaries Collection
Boundaries provides space separation as personal storage and privacy, creating a highly desirable workplace experience. Each enclosed ‘Boundary’ can be programmed to promote more focused work and personal storage. The Boundaries system components will help create spaces to Focus, Learn, Share and Create, while speaking to a new mindset and lifestyle aspiration.
Category: Work from Home Solutions
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: SitOnIt Seating
Product: Reya
Official business or family business, our award-winning Reya provides the perfect place to work from home. Its patent-pending, lightning-fast assembly means you’re ready to roll in about the time it takes to reheat those leftovers – no tools required.
Category: Workplace Accessories
Award: Gold
Manufacturer: OFS
Product: Kaleid
With the increased adaptation of activity-based work, offices are becoming more dynamic, energetic spaces; stimulating connection, collaboration, and culture. Designed by Webb Associates, Kaleid was created as a mobile element of Soft Architecture to help define space and support these exact needs.
Category: Tables – Conference
Award: Innovation
Manufacturer: Enwork
Product: Enwork’s Big Tables Platform
A classic, understated design makes Foundation EX a boardroom staple for years to come. With integrated power and data options, this classic design is elevated with modern technology capabilities. Coordinating credenzas subtly carry the Foundation EX aesthetic throughout a space. Like Expanse and Odyssey, Foundation EX elegently spans up to 36 feet over two bases. Base available in laminate or veneer.
Category: Seating – Conference
Award: Sustainability
Manufacturer: via seating
Product: Jeté
Jeté is beautiful graceful motion with slimline elegance, signature comfort and sustainable innovation. The slimline silhouette offers a sophisticated, contemporary profile presented in high and mid back forms. Its scale and subtle form allow for a broad range of upholstery applications from basic grade fabric to leather to organic naturals. The look is further extenuated by unique shadow tufting, parallel & box hand-sewn patterns, each with optional emphasized stitch.
Category: Seating – Stacking
Award: Sustainability
Manufacturer: OFS
Product: Zero
Meet Zero. A guest seating collection uniquely designed to consist of three parts – a seat, back, and frame – elegantly combined to come together with a single screw. Focusing on using as few elements as possible, Zero’s parts and pieces can be recycled or reused, benefiting the customer and the environment. Create beautiful combinations with an upholstered or veneer seat, painted or veneer back, and accent with any of our 18 powder coat colors.
Category: Healthcare – Guest & Lounge Seating
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: Carolina, an OFS company
Product: Ansel
True to its name, Ansel acts as a hedge of space division and privacy. A waiting room is of course a holding place in preparation for treatment, but also a space where we learn good or bad news, connect with family or friends, or try to find peace. Ansel, meaning “divine protection,” provides privacy within a waiting area to find just the comfort you need amidst the healing process.
Category: Healthcare – Patient Seating
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: Carolina, an OFS company
Product: Sorta
Sorta was imagined for flexibility, blurring the lines between healthcare, workplace, and education to create a true solution that can adapt to a user’s needs. This playful seating design showcases a wide variety of color options, usage options, and innovation. Caregivers can lean back, settling into a time of connection with a patient or coworker. Patients and caregivers can use the back as an armrest for blood-draw, or a convenient desk for paperwork. Students can use the arm as a work surface to accomplish tasks. However you work, Sorta works with you.
Category: Surfacing Materials & Finishes
Award: Silver
Manufacturer: CARVART
Product: CARVART Couture Collection
CARVART’s Curated Collections are groupings of patterns, textures, colors, techniques, and unique details that work in harmony with synergized forms, shapes, and movement. With a focus on innovation and uniquely executed techniques, CARVART’s Couture line is a sophisticated and curated collective of singular creations and pairings of patterns, textures, colors, interlayers and more.