May 23, 2013
Hello, hello, hello. Latest issue of the newsletter is available to view online
The latest issue of the Insight newsletter is available to view online. This week, Simon Heath illustrates the issue and offers some thoughts on an exciting new project from CBRE. Richard Dawkins has some of his idea hijacked to make a point about ergonomics. We highlight Nigel Oseland’s and Adrian Burton’s research into the link between office design and performance. A new competition to design a new New Scotland Yard is announced and in Bucharest, Colliers International think they know the sort of office in which millennials would like to work. To view it in your browser, please click here.
May 19, 2013
Artists sing about office furniture. Part 1 – Harry Nilsson
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Furniture
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Given the complete and utter failure of the world’s artists to draw inspiration from office furniture, this is likely to be the shortest series we’ve ever run. It will start and end here. I’d love to be proved wrong but there cannot be many artists prepared to use something as mundane as a desk to express their feelings about the lack of solidity in their lives. In this case the desk can be interpreted as God or – well – a desk. Nilsson was no sap of course. He was one of the most commercially successful artists of his era without extensive touring and counted amongst his drinking buddies both John Lennon and Keith Moon.
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