The Art of Design Issue 22 2016 | Page 50

50 In addition to their research into how spaces are changing, Herman Miller researched Living Office workplaces and the employees and leaders who work in them. The results clearly indicate that Living Office has helped people feel more creative, more connected, and more engaged in their work. Companies are seeing greater efficiency, productivity, and innovation. With the addition of over a dozen new products to Herman Miller’s purposefully varied offering, the company has restructured the presentation of workplace solutions to better support the purpose, character, and activities of the organizations, groups, and individuals that use them. This new structure offers organizations and their design partners a process for selecting and integrating these products into the workplace. Visitors to the Herman Miller showroom will walk through Landscape Systems such as Canvas, Layout Studio, and Public, solutions that offer the adaptability, variation, and modularity to meet a broad set of needs, as well as a cohesive design that harmonizes seamlessly across the floorplate. Augmenting these enterprise-ready Landscape Systems are Focused Portfolios, discrete solutions designed to meet precise needs of specific teams and their work. Focused Portfolios include Locale for high-performance teams, Metaform Portfolio for hyper-flexible, highly-customizable settings, and Renew Link for high-density settings that support extended periods of focused work. Throughout the showroom, guests will find garden-like respites that showcase the significant expansion of Herman Miller’s soft seating and lounge furnishings offer for the work, higher education, and healthcare markets. In a diverse offering of colors, materials, and finishes, the new