Eames Aluminum Group Management Chair with Pneumatic Lift

Charles and Ray Eames
$$ 1958

The Eames® Aluminum Group Collection (1958) began as a special project for Eero Saarinen and Alexander Girard, who needed seating for a home they were designing for industrialist J. Irwin Miller in Columbus, Indiana. The request was for leisure chairs light enough to move from indoors to out and strong enough to withstand the elements. At the time, the Eameses were exploring ways to use aluminum, which had been strengthened, refined and made more affordable since WWII. They constructed a lightweight die-cast frame for the project, then wrapped it in a sling – a “sitting pocket” that subtly conforms to the body’s shape. The result was a completely new type of seat and a departure from the idea of a chair as solid shell

Aeron Chair

Don Chadwick
$$ 1994

Aeron is the perfect marriage of performance and design. This office chair still defines expectations for ergonomic comfort more than 20 years after its debut. It has been called "America's best-selling chair" and is featured in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.

Mater High Stool

Space Copenhagen
$ 2006

The Mater High Stool is designed by the Danish architect duo Space Copenhagen and regarded as a "New Danish Classic". It is a high stool that can be used in multiple settings and for everyday use. It is crafted in various materials with sustainable and socially responsible methods. With its organic yet minimalist style, this bar stool is suitable for both residential and commercial use.

Clap Chair

Patricia Urquila
$ 2015

Kartell launches Clap, the armchair bearing the signature of Patricia Urquiola, specially designed for the contract sector and to extend Kartell's soft line. Clap comes in eight color combinations and features seating with elegant and functional hexagonal fabric that can satisfy the most varied furnishing needs and has a very sturdy plastic frame, the result of the latest industrial technology.

ASAP Chair

Paustian– Foersom & Hiorti-Lorenzen
$ 2012

The ASAP Chair is an easily stackable chair designed by Foersom & Hiort-Lorentzen who have designed several other products for Paustian. Paustian ASAP Chair is the winner of red dot design award 2012. The ASAP chair is designed for use at the dining table in the home, in restaurants, in the meeting-room or canteen at work, or indeed anywhere where it is desirable to have an elegant and useful chair in a contemporary idiom with great strength and durability.

Duna 02-Trestle Fixed

Lievore Altherr Molina
$ 2014

Like a soft, enveloping flower, the shape of Duna 02 evocative and contemporary. Born eighteen years ago, its iconic silhouette still sets it apart as a design classic, ripe for reinvention again and again. New plastic shell fabrication available in a new range of colors in polypropylene allows for a thinner, sleeker profile, a more delicate curvature and more sumptuous surface.

Grace Chair

Giopato & Coombes
$ 2013

A basic frame to cover in different ways, a sort of outfit to choose according to our taste: this is the distinguishing trait of the Grace chair by Giopato & Coombes.Mandarin Grace wears a sort of collared cape that falls softly to cover the legs, with a central closed split on the back. Polo Grace is covered in layers of leather or fabric with topstitching and loops to create the design of a belt. Pin-Up Grace has a close-fitting outfit that shows off its perfect silhouette. Lastly, Eton Grace wears a male-styled outfit with an elegant tail, with the fanciful touch of a pleat on the armrest which leaves the sides of the frame partially “naked”.

The Project

The environments we find ourselves in greatly affect our moods. SQSP’s office is a designed space that evokes and stimulates creative thinking and problem solving. The aesthetic of this office is what helps designers and creative problem solvers to be in an environment conducive of innovation. We decided for our 2019 Hackweek project to educate SQSP employees on the design and furniture in this office that create an environment where innovation is cultivated.

The Office

New York-based architecture, design, and strategy firm A+I is designed the of headquarters of Squarespace in New York City - a home to one of the world’s leading voices in website publishing. With approximately 100,000 square feet, the Squarespace Headquarters span five full floors, a roof deck, a content studio in the basement, and an expansive ground-floor lobby/event space, in the historic Maltz Building – a manufacturing hub in the Printing House District throughout the mid-20th century.

Credits

Design

Angela Milosevic Megan Eckersley

Engineer

Cody Wall