Future Work — Installation view
Future Work, Design Miami, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Work has changed. It has become a fluid activity, liberated from place. Modes of work are more complex, casual and spontaneous. With that, our tools demand review. Monofunctional furniture has become obsolete. Desk ≠ desk, chair ≠ chair. Our places of work require hybridity and their furniture must accept misuse and reinterpretation.
For Knoll Furniture Company, SO–IL has produced three furniture pieces; simultaneously seating, surfaces, and objects made to respond to the increasingly fluid nature of creative production in the workspace. The pieces act as an assemblage; they absorb new organizations and allow for accidental interaction. This assembly of furniture is not a defined set for production, but instead, a provocation for a world where leisure and labor co-mingle.
The collection made its debut at the 2016 Design Miami Design Curio program in Basel, Switzerland.
Future Work, Design Miami, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
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Future Work — Installation view
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Future Work — Installation view
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Future Work — Installation view
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Future Work — 1:1 pouf mockup
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Future Work — Furniture model
![](http://so-il.org/content/1-projects/59-future-work/7_SO-IL-Future-Work-Collage-01.jpg)
Future Work — Furniture render
![](http://so-il.org/content/1-projects/59-future-work/8_SO-IL-Future-Work-Collage-02.jpg)
Future Work — Furniture render
![](http://so-il.org/content/1-projects/59-future-work/9_SO-IL-Future-Work-Collage-03.jpg)
Future Work — Furniture render