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Sound Down, Design Up with MPS!

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Making Privacy Simple has pioneered the pairing of acoustic paneling and white noise, also known as the ABC’s of sound masking. (That’s Absorb, Block + Cover if you’re new to the game!)  Since their voyage to a new manufacturing facility last year, their product offering has grown exponentially with new designs, expanded color offerings, and incredible manufacturing times!

Custom acoustic solutions by MPS can reshape and bring any type of workspace to life.  MPS Acoustic Panels are the energy that inspires, improving the aesthetic environment while providing significant sound absorbing benefits.

Every one of the dozens of custom and standard shapes and designs of MPS panels can dampen and diffuse mid- to high-frequency sound waves, helping to reduce distracting noise, echo and reverb, and enhance acoustic privacy.

MPS Acoustic Panels provide beautiful, colorful, versatile separation and space design.  These panels are easily disinfected, eco-friendly, and tackable.  Applications range from desk dividers to room dividers, ceiling baffles on any ceiling type, or applied wall or desk space where color, energy, and visual and acoustic privacy will make a difference.

Here are a few of our favorites!

           

Explore our collection of standard products on the MPS Acoustics website, complete with downloadable information like product sheets, warranty, cleaning tips, CAD Files and more.

Visit The Lab at MPS, where we bring ideas to life.  From custom architectrual solutions to acoustic sound dampening products, our team thrives on the creative process of designing with our clients and partners.

Curious about how we blend white noise and acoustic paneling for maximum acoustic privacy?  Ask us!  We’d love to set up a call with you!

DARRAN Furniture Awarded Best of NeoCon Competition and NeoCon Gold

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We are excited to announce that DARRAN Furniture won the prestigious award for Best of Competition and NeoCon Gold in the Furniture Systems + Enhancements Category for BEst of NeoCon.  It is such a wonderful moment, especially for those who have worked so increidbly hard to get the Honey collection where it is today!  Designers Christopher Wright and Mark Müller designed such an innovative and thoughtful collection!

Following the announcement, the showroom was all a buzz with designers, dealers, and end users circling the showroom that displayed multiple configurations of the biophilic panel system.  Mobile, height adjustable, fixed height, storage, lounge .. Honey can help you feel at home no matter how you work.

Explore the entire collection on the DARRAN website via the link, below.  If you’re looking for more information, or want to see Honey for yourself, reach out to our team to schedule a showroom tour or a 15-30 minute video conference!

Honey – Workspaces | DARRAN Furniture

Visit the DARRAN showroom at the Merchandise Mart:

NeoCon 2021 Installation | DARRAN Furniture

Reshaping Education with SitOnIt Seating

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Our team recently had the pleasure of participating in a webinar with our SitOnIt Seating Team to discover how the pandemic is reshaping education.  This presentation beautifully showcased what is happening in education with regard to where students learn, the use of technology, how we are focusing on wellness and safety, and of course, product trends!

Where Students Learn

Homeschooling will increase

Continued eLearning / Hybrid attendance

Flexible / Mobile Structures and Furniture

Increase in outdoor learning

Our team has experienced this with our children as they have ebb’d and flowed from classroom to home to hybrid and back again.  We see how flexible environments (ie. our showroom) promote comfortable eLearning as our little students move throughout the space seeking lounge furniture, active seating options, or the privacy of the Mute Box (by Artopex).  Comfortable, flexible spaces also help to reduce stress and fatigue from over-exposure to technology.

   

Use of Technology

Video Assited Learning

Augmented Reality Learning

Technology will create new opportunities / digital ecosystems

We have had high school physics lessons, Future Problem Solving Club meetings and even virtual fieldtrips occur in the showroom this year.  How cool!  Technology has created new opportunities for learning!

Focus on Wellness and Safety

Focus on student well-being

More school health clinics

High performance air filtration

Traditional nurse’s offices are busier places these days!  Not only is the traffic volume increasing, but the focus on mental health and academic progress has increased demand on spaces that traditionally only housed ill children.  Hand sanitizer, temperature stations, isolation spaces … schools are looking to customize nurses offices, mental health spaces, and more.

Returning to School:  Product Trends

Divider Screens help support spatial distancing in the immediate situation and can be used for privacy in the future.

Mobile seating allows you to immediately reduce the density in a given classroom and ramp back up as appropriate for community guidelines.

Mobile storage brings much needed flexibility to the learning environment.

Mobile tables keep environments flexible.  Add a Sector Tabletop Screen to promote spatial division!

Lounge seating’s innate weight and scale make them ideal for delineating space while still facilitating student interaction.

Mobile Screens create nooks, individual spaces, and add flexibility as guidelines change.

Universal Screens retrofit to the back and/or sides of a worksurface.  Clamp on screens make a quick fix!

Build a home learning environment with SitOnIt’s Work From Home collection.  Free residential delivery and a great discount mean you can create a dedicated environment at home for less! (Did we mention the 5-year warranty?)

On the SitOnIt website you can find Education Design Plans showcasing how our collection of products work together to create standard and distanced environments ranging from student lounges to classrooms, even administrative and faculty offices!  Click on a space to explore your options, select a typical, and add it to your project in ChairBuilder!  The part numbers and finishes automatically populate with list pricing.  Quick and simple.

Learn more about SitOnIt’s approach to education here!  You can explore more ways to return to school safely, find care and cleaning guides specific to SitOnIt Seating’s products, and learn more about evolving education.  The Project Spotlight featuring Suffolk Community College is outstanding, as well!

Reach out to our team for a more in-depth presentation surrounding education trends and product highlights or for assistance in gathering furniture samples, literature or finishes for your next project!  Stay tuned for information pertaining to some fantastic promotions to support the Education buying season, as well!

Please reach out to our team for a list of sources pertaining to the above information regarding trends and more.

DARRAN Launches Honey

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We see that work environments with natural elements lead to a higher level of well being and productivity, which is an important consideration for business in terms of responsibility to its employees and its own bottom line.  By embracing biophilic design, Honey workspace furniture addresses the needs of individual users, their varied work styles, privacy and of course, well-being.

The space-efficient 120 degree planning grid creates a flowing geometry that meanders through a room with endless possibilities for configuring the workspace.  Honey panels are soft and rounded with compound curved surfaces.  The panel height of 55″ gives the right amount of visual and sound privacy without overwhelming the space.

Honey offers open and closed collaborative zones, meeting spaces, lounge, or desking in sitting, standing, or height adjustable, adapting to the way you work.  In addition to work space, Honey has a collection of storage and lounge products that compliment the soft lines of the workspace furniture.  Thoughtfully designed, this collection integrates an open base with height adjustable bases integrated into the panel promoting a light feeling and tidy lines.

Find more images, finish options, price list and more on the DARRAN Furniture website!

Social Distance with Style

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It sounds like a tongue twister:  Social Distance with Stylish Screens from Symmetry!  Try saying that three times fast!  Symmetry has continued to polish up their screen collections following their launch of the acrlic Sector Screens, with the redesign and refinement of their privacy screens.  Mix and match fabric-covered Motif and white board Doodle screens to add texture and function to any office, as well as privacy and style.

Motif

Motif allows for customized privacy with durable fabrics designed to heal from pins, thumbtacks and more.  Integrate privacy and protection with bleach-cleanable textiles, helping to protect against COVID-19.  The eco-friendly design features single-piece construction with a HexaCore honeycomb center creating rigidity with less weight.

Height options include 12, 18 and 24 inches. Need to include modesty?  The midway and height adjustable mounts can be 30 inches high with a 6 inch+ modesty.  Width options range from 17-24 inches in 6-inch increments.

Integrate your favorite SitOnIt patterns, including:
Dice, Dynamic, Huntington, Laguna, Malibu, Monterey, Motion, Newport, Pop, Spice, Strive + Venice.

Need a bleach-cleanable fabric divider? We recommend the following:
Cover Cloth, Faux Felt or Synergy by Momentum Textiles

*If you plan to clean with bleach, we recommend you do not tack those surfaces.

All of the above materials can also be added to the Symmetry mobile pedestals to coordainate your whole space from seating to screens.

Doodle

Doodle is the playful partner to Motif, with the same height, width and mount options but in markboard form. This screen stands up to endless scribbles while maximizing privacy and providing a protective barrier.

Visit the Symmetry Website to download sell sheets, explore your options and more.

Contact us for more information on these new additions to the Symmetry family!  We’d love to provide your team with customized training and more information on the details that make these screens unique.

The Screen Scene – Dividing Space for a Safe Return to Work

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Screens are the new toilet paper in our industry as we strive to safely return to work!  Just like toilet paper, we have so many choices and applications appropriate for today’s working world.  With a variety of mounting options and materials, our manufacturers are likely to have a solution that meets your needs!

 

Symmetry – Sector

Symmetry offers the widest selection of brackets and materials with their Sector screens.  From clear and frosted acrylic to fabric dividers, Sector screens allow you to stay social and service-oriented while keeping a safe distance.  Screens can be panel mounted, adjustable in height, or edge mounted to protect worksurfaces from holes .. and more!  Symmetry also offers a variety of ergonomic accessories from monitor arms to keyboard trays and pencil trays that mount effortlessly to your worksurface making cleaning and sanitization of your workplace quick and easy!  Stay tuned for an exciting introduction coming soon in the category of divider screens from Symmetry!

Artopex Screens

Artopex offers a collection of freestanding, universal and worksurface mounted screens in clear or frosted acrylic. If we dive a little deeper into their product offering, we find panel mounted screens that will accomodate a 1″ thick laminate panel, mobile panels, and more.  Worried about your freestanding worksurface screen drifting away?  Velcro helps hold it securely, and temporarily in place.  Artopex strives to address 2 key points: safety + density, while remaining 6′ apart.  Learn more about Artopex’s protective solutions here.

Making Privacy Simple Ecoprivacy Acoustic

MPS has a collection of acoustic dividers developed to help you get back to work and create space, without creating more opportunities for distraction.  It can be difficult to social distance in an open space and using hard surfaces to create separation can compromise accoustic comfort.  The acoustic dividers from MPS are a simple way to put a physical barrier between employees who work near each other in a desking or benching environment without sacrificing acoustic comfort.

Claridge Divider Screens

Claridge Products offers a wealth of screen options from mobile to stationary, dividing space with freestanding boards in glass, porcelain or even fabric!  Most dividers can accomodate 72″ heights coming in 30″, 36″ and 48″ widths.  Some will gang together while others will add a contemporary twist on space division.  New to Claridge is the opportunity to cut a “temperature reading” opening into your screen.  Quickly and easily assess an empolyee’s temperature with as little face to fact contact as possible!

Berco Designs + Oasis Berco Desk Masks

Available in arcylic or vinyl, Desk Mask is a foldable desk screen providing a safety barrier between workstations in the open office.  Need to create individual space in your conference rooms?  Desk mask could be a great fit!  Looking to add stability?  The vinyl Desk Mask features support feet while the acrylic version easily adheres to the surface with velcro.

And More …

Need to get creative in how to divide your space and create separation in your office?  Our team is ready to answer your questions and make suggestions to help you return to work safely.  Many of our manufacturers have screens, partitions, and options beyond what is shown here.

We can’t wait to help your team get back to work comfortably and efficiently!

 

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