Smart Conference: Humanscale’s essential ingredient to happy hybrid-ing
Brand story by Emma Moore
London, United Kingdom
16.04.24
Crafted for the dynamic hybrid work landscape, Humanscale’s Smart Conference chair embodies maximum adaptability and comfort. It accommodates multiple users with ease, whether they’re working from home or in the office.
Humanscale’s Smart Conference chair is ideal for today’s office culture, where nobody keeps the same chair from day to day. It is made to flex to the sitter each time it’s used
Humanscale’s Smart Conference chair is ideal for today’s office culture, where nobody keeps the same chair from day to day. It is made to flex to the sitter each time it’s used
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Smart Conference Chair
Humanscale
Smart Conference is an office chair that wants you to feel at home. More precisely, it is an evolution of Humanscale’s Smart Chair, itself an adaptation of the iconic task chair designs that legendary designer Niels Diffrient brought to Humanscale two decades ago. Diffrient famously put people first in his design process and started the dream of custom comfort in the workplace.
Always putting people first in the design process, Humanscale evolves its task chairs to suit the specific needs of hybrid users today, while reducing the environmental impact
Always putting people first in the design process, Humanscale evolves its task chairs to suit the specific needs of hybrid users today, while reducing the environmental impact
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Smart Conference Chair
Humanscale
Perfectly personalised seating
Inspiring the details of the Smart Conference design, however, is a set of very current human considerations. Work culture today sees few people holding onto their seating for the duration of their tenure. Chairs are for sharing and need to flex to fit multiple users. To this end, Smart Conference incorporates Humanscale’s Form-Sensing Technology and weight-compensating recline so that personalisation is automatic. ‘Functionality is at the core of good design,’ says Sergio Silva, Director of Design and Innovation at Humanscale. ‘Smart Conference is a seamless seating experience tailored to accommodate a wide range of body types.’
Humanscale’s form-sensing and weight-responsive technology gives every sitter the perfect recline each time
Humanscale’s form-sensing and weight-responsive technology gives every sitter the perfect recline each time
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Smart Conference Chair
Humanscale
Bringing home comfort to work
Underscoring the need for supreme comfort are hybrid working conditions. Today we require parity between the home and office recline, not least when in the same meeting there are those at home with their feet up off-camera and others maintaining decorum in the boardroom. Helping to level the field is the addition of Kvadrat upholstery to the Smart Conference design. Kvadrat textiles come in myriad shades, textures and tactilities which serve to blur the boundaries. ‘Whether in a traditional office setting, a boardroom, a breakout area, or at home, Smart Conference is meticulously crafted to align with the demands of modern workplace culture,’ affirms Silva.
Nuanced colours and innovative weaves in the Kvadrat upholstery help Smart Conference slot into contemporary homely interiors
Nuanced colours and innovative weaves in the Kvadrat upholstery help Smart Conference slot into contemporary homely interiors
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Smart Conference Chair
Humanscale
Looking out for the wider environment
Addressing the need to minimise the company’s carbon footprint, Smart Conference is lightweight, has a frame of recyclable aluminium and is easy to disassemble for a sustainable afterlife. A very smart chair indeed.
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