NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Niels Diffrient’s Freedom chair. Launched by Humanscale, the Freedom chair revolutionized the seating industry as the first ever ...

There are few things that manage to live on my desk for more than a couple of months. There are even fewer that I'll upgrade to permanent status. Humanscale's Neat Suite of products and their ...

Dezeen Showroom: workplace furniture brand Humanscale has launched the Smart Conference chair – an adaptation of a classic office seating design by the late industrial designer Niels Diffrient.

Humanscale is the first company to ever obtain full Living Product Challenge Certification offered by the International Living Future Institute, which they achieved for not only one, but two products.

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release dated September 14, 2016 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release ...

*Fantastic. The guy is 81 years old. He's like a vast, spreading oak tree. He's such a titan of industrial design that I feel not one whiff of embarrassment in posting his product ads wholesale! NEW ...

NEW YORK, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Adapted from iconic industrial designer Niels Diffrient's original, award-winning Smart Chair, Smart Conference takes intuitive comfort to a new level of luxury, ...

Niels Diffrient, who passed away last Saturday at 84, is unanimously called the godfather of ergonomics. He championed function and comfort as the most important principles of design–made evident in ...

Diffrient was born in rural Mississippi in 1928 and grew up in Detroit. He attended Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University and then graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art where he ...