Knoll's HiLo honored in 2016 Good Design Awards Program
12/01/2017
Presented by the Chicago Athaneaum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. the Good Design Awards Program emphasizes quality design of the highest form, function, and aesthetics, and champions all those everyday consumer and designer goods that have proven to exceed ordinary quality standards.
The Good Design Awards Program has honored HiLo in its 2016 citation. Designed in collaboration with Knoll by San Francisco-based design agency Box Clever, the chair is an unprecedented take on office seating, harnessing the interstitial positions between sitting and standing.
As its designers themselves have admitted, sometimes there is a real "ongoing battle" in offices or firms between whether it's better to stand or sit.
On the one hand we have the mobility, understood as the prerogative of an active and tireless spirit, symbol of modernity; on the other we have the sedentariness, understood as a necessary means to feel "settled in" at one's workstation and facilitate concentration.
HiLo wins this battle between these two opposing mindsets: at its NeoCon 2016 debut in Chicago, it became the first furnishing to recognize the increasingly mobile and communal nature of the workspace.
Compact, easy to use and light enough to be picked up with one hand, HiLo's unique shape and structure keeps a balance between the active and the relaxed and between being seated and standing.
This is possible thanks to its ability to be adjusted in height and tilt. The seat is made of rubber and specially designed to be responsive and flexible, while the single-stand base has a steel substructure to provide both stability and mobility.
