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Ancillary furniture for casual spaces
What is ancillary furniture?
Ancillary furniture describes a variety of solutions for casual spaces that support multiple postures. Casual spaces are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout the workplace and may include lounges, in-between spaces, enclaves, conference rooms, patios, work cafés and other collaborative spaces.
New ways of working have driven demand for different kinds of spaces at work. As work has become more mobile and younger generations become the majority, traditional work settings have transitioned into more flexible, relaxed spaces that blur the edges between home life and work life.
Ancillary furniture includes:
– Lounge chairs, stools, benches, sofas, and side chairs
– End tables, coffee tables and bistro tables
– Lighting and accessories
Lookbook Collection
Resimercial Furniture Lookbook
An inspiring resource for exploring ancillary furniture and accessories for lobbies, reception areas, and amenity spaces.
– 100+ brands
– Explore manufacturers by warranty
– Indexes are clickable
– Vendor logos serve as web links
HHI Ancillary Lookbook
Use this lookbook as an inspirational resource as you develop visions for your clients’ spaces that meet the Healthier Hospitals Initiative.
– 28 brands
– Explore brands by category + warranty
– Indexes are clickable
– Vendor logos serve as web links to HHI info
Residential Workplace Lookbook
An inspiring resource for exploring ancillary partners for creating warm and unique corporate spaces.
– 115+ brands
– Explore brands by category + warranty
– Indexes are clickable
– Vendor logos serve as web links
Featured Ancillary Providers
Our featured Steelcase partners offer a broad portfolio of solutions for creating inviting and elegant settings throughout your workplace.
Your Ancillary Partner
Providing ancillary solutions for large-scale projects can be very complex, involving more than 100 individual manufacturers. You need an experienced partner with sophisticated resources to streamline and manage ancillary project implementations. We are uniquely positioned to be your go-to partner for selecting, sourcing and delivering ancillary solutions.
Our Expertise, Commitment and Resources
Our Expertise
Not all ancillary products meet the rigorous demands of commercial environments. We can leverage our industry knowledge to help you in specifying contract quality solutions if appropriate for your project. We have extensive fire code knowledge, ensuring that your ancillary solutions meet regional safety requirements. We are experienced in navigating the rigorous process of custom fabric selection and testing.
– Contract Quality Certified
– Fire Code Knowledge
– COM Coordination
Our Commitment
Because we are owned by a Fortune 1000 corporation, we have enough financial depth to support large ancillary projects. We also have the flexibility and resources to create new ancillary vendor partnerships. We’ve made significant investments in our people, processes and facilities to be able to deliver on our promise to you. We have our own warehouses and truck fleet, enabling us to be agile in supporting your needs.
– Financial Stability
– Reliability
– Warranty
Our Resources
Our three warehousing facilities across New England handle a vast number of shipments received and delivered each day. We specialize in the details – receiving and inspecting your products for visible damage, and consolidating shipments from multiple manufacturers. Our fleet of trucks ensures your delivery runs smoothly, and that your products arrive safely and on time.
– Warehousing
– Installation
– Delivery
Our Tools
Steelcase Marketplace
A powerful web tool for exploring Steelcase brands, partners and makers. It’s designed to offer inspiration and ease selection while streamlining the specification, ordering and project management process.
– 50+ brands
– Sort by brand/product type/features/lead times/price
– Create project boards
– Compare up to 4 items
– Print product and project sheets
– Add notes and comments
– Download Revit files
– Customize + download spec sheets
Design Public Group
A dynamic web tool for more than 500 SKUs of ancillary products from American, European and Asian manufacturers. This easy-to-use platform enables you to seamlessly browse and filter a myriad of products.
– 300+ brands
– Search for product by category/brand/quick-ship
– Filter by brand/product type/features/lead times/price
– Create quotes
– Download CAD and Revit symbols
– Customize and download spec sheets
My Resource Library
A powerful web tool that replaces a library of physical binders. Use MRL to access our open line manufacturer partners in the cloud. MRL helps you find products, pricing, spec sheets and more.
– 475+ brands
– Includes systems furniture
– Download CAD and Revit files
– Browse gallery of inspiring images
– Create project binders / boards
– Browse by vertical market and product categories
Blog Posts
Ancillary furniture: comfortable, beautiful and perfect for creating inspiring workplace destinations
It’s 2019 and no one wants to sit in a sea of cubicles anymore. That’s where ancillary comes in. Ancillary furniture plays a key role in today’s workplace design. As the way we work has changed, so have the spaces we want to work in. Employees want spaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but…
What is ancillary furniture?
Ancillary is a term you may have heard recently with regard to designing a space, but what does it mean? Here we delve into the trends that have impacted the rise in ancillary furniture within the workplace and hospitality sector, its definition, and the three questions you should ask yourself as you compare products. How…
Ergonomic solutions for ancillary spaces
Ancillary spaces are becoming more and more common within the modern work environment. With offices becoming more flexible, open, and mobile, ancillary spaces provide a comfortable and collaborative option for a change of scenery. The problem is that ancillary spaces can be more stylish than functional, creating ergonomic issues for employees and hindering productivity. Here we present ergonomic solutions to some of the most common issues seen…
Add color and texture to your space with modern office rugs
As we look for ways to add comfort to residential-inspired workplaces, an element that can go overlooked is what goes beneath your feet. Rugs bring unique colors, textures and warmth to a space, as well as provide space definition for ancillary furniture settings. Area rugs add a touch of elegance and contemporary design to lounges,…
5 places to source modern workplace lighting
What simple element can dramatically transform a space? Lighting! When it comes to residential-inspired workplace settings, lighting solutions are often overlooked. Natural daylight is perhaps the most compelling design element in today’s workspaces, but lighting solutions have the power to define space, create a mood, bolster illumination, add comfort and support wellbeing in workplace settings.…
Our top 5 outdoor office furniture vendors
If you are lucky enough to have an outdoor space within your workplace, you need ancillary furniture that can withstand the elements. Outdoor office furniture needs to adapt to a wide range of temperatures and be resistant to UV rays, water, and salt. As you search for sofas, armchairs and tables, you may be overwhelmed…
Live your brand with these unique office accessories
Well-designed residential-inspired work settings enhance ancillary furniture with lighting, area rugs, elements of nature, and unique accessories. Decorative accessories can often add that final finishing touch to a space and make it feel warm and personal. They can be classy, quirky, elegant and clever. From photographic prints to pottery, pillows and cushions, to docking stations…
4 fresh ideas for incorporating biophilic design in the workplace
Biophilia is defined as our innate fondness for and need to experience nature. Biophilic design connects people with the natural environment either directly, with plants, animals and natural elements (air, light, fire, water), indirectly with images of nature or natural-looking textures and patterns, or with space (transitional spaces that connect indoors and outdoors, architectural details,…
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