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Founded by G.W. Haworth in 1948, Haworth is a privately held, global leader in the contract furnishings industry. Haworth has evolved into a global company with a focus on Organic Workspace that helps people perform their best.
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Behind the brand with Singapore-based Liz Teh
The Director of Space Design for Haworth International for Asia and Europe tells us all about her global design journey.
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Saturday Indesign is less than one week away – here’s what you need to know
Make sure you’re there for the year’s best day of design.
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Win over $35,000 worth of prizes at Saturday Indesign with the all new Design Passport
Win big at design’s most loved event and take your favourite brands home with you
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Some of Australia’s best showrooms are opening for Saturday Indesign
Start planning your Saturday Indesign experience for 2024.
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Saturday Indesign is back and registrations are officially open!
Confirm your attendance with your free ticket today
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Seating designed for everyone
In collaboration with Sydney artist Bella Rose, Haworth’s reimagining of its classic Zody chairs are a celebration of inclusivity, diversity and self-expression.
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The latest ‘Whole Of Lifecycle Furniture’ initiatives: In review
In Australia alone, 6.4 per cent of all waste generated comes from furniture and furnishings. In this article, we review today’s most impactful Whole Of Lifecycle Furniture practices.
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Reimagining the third space with Haworth
Haworth turns public areas into beautiful spaces that foster social connection and creativity with thoughtfully-implemented furniture solutions.
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Enter Haworth’s world to create your own
Transcending the boundaries of the physical world, the global furniture manufacturer’s Virtual Showroom takes clients and designers on a journey through the ‘ideal workspace’.
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Calling all architects and designers to Dance For LIFE, 2022!
No thanks to Covid-19, the Australian architecture and design industry’s biggest mental-health fundraising event has had a hiatus. But it’s time to dust off your dancing shoes and pull your costumes out of storage, because Dance For Life is back!
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Why we are so obsessed with this acoustic panel collection
As objects fill the places in our lives, those that contribute both beauty and afford wellbeing are to be given due recognition.
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Catch every INDE.Summit insight you missed, now on demand
Did you miss out on the industry’s most anticipated regional architecture and design conference? Fear not – the full programme is now live on demand!
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Discover architecture’s best for 2021 at this year’s INDE.Awards
You’re invited to our annual celebration of Indo-Pacific architecture and design! Find out more about this year’s INDE.Awards here.
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Objects of Desire
Welcome to the shortlist of The Object, where the ubiquitous becomes impressive, the luxurious is desired and clean, and pared back minimalism highlights function and form.
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Have you heard the news about Stylecraft x Haworth?
Stylecraft x Haworth are entering into a long-term partnership in Australia, effective 1st July, 2021 to better serve corporate clients and design firms across Australia.
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What sort of advancement, value and growth do we really need in the world?
Consisting of four CPD accredited discussions, the inaugural INDE.Summit is to be held on 5 August 2021 and will cast a discerning light over the notion of civil ‘development’.
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Celebrating the INDE.Awards 2020, better late than never
Rainy Sydney played host to the INDE.Awards mixer event: an opportunity for the industry to come together and celebrate a 2020 programme unlike any other.
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INDE.Awards entries extended to April 1st!
Get your photography ready and your project details in order, because you’ve got until April 1st to enter INDE.Awards 2021!
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Objects of Desire
Objects shape our lives as they bring beauty and function to our existence. Every year, through the INDE.Awards, we are privileged to showcase new iterations of objects that vie for the title of icons of the future. Great design is timeless and within The Object category there is the opportunity to present object design at its very best.
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Could colour be the antidote to save 2021?
On Wednesday 23 September {small} bytes of happiness in conjunction with Wattyl will present the Wattyl 2021 Colour Forecast – Colour Antidote.
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{small} bytes of happiness acknowledges mental health month
The next {small} bytes of happiness session will be light and practical, presented by Krisztina Javor of ReachOut, attendees will walk away with helpful suggestions on building or rebuilding feelings of strength and resilience in challenging times.
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Break bread with a culinary king
Homemade bread has reached unprecedented popularity in 2020 and for this next session of {small} bytes Chef Kasper Christensen will teach us this activity can be about more than passing time.
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Get creative with The Bold Collective
On Wednesday 29 July, The Bold Collective and {small} bytes of happiness will host a digital arts and crafts workshop online, presented by Haworth and Milliken-Ontera.
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Dance like nobody is watching
For the second iteration of {small} bytes of happiness, Haworth and Sydney’s Dance Central have come together for a high energy, fun loving, virtual JAZZY-CISE class.
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Future Proofing with HAWORTH
As a supporter of the 2020 INDE.Awards and sponsor of The Object category, Haworth understands the importance of products and their role in creating inspiring spaces. Collaborating with ‘object’ designers is a part of the DNA of the company and partnering with Indesign Media Asia Pacific shows a commitment to design that resonates not only with those who design but all who appreciate fine furnishings.
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You only get out what you put in
{small} Bytes of Happiness is a bite-sized wellness series from Haworth designed to nourish and revive the mind and body.
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“Breathtaking and exciting” – Announcing the Official Shortlist for the INDE.Awards 2020!
At last the results are here! The Official Shortlist for the INDE.Awards 2020 had been announced.
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Dance For Life cancelled due to COVID-19
A huge event for the Architecture and Design community as well as an important event for raising funds for charity Reach Out has unfortunately been cancelled due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus outbreak.
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Architects turned Artists
Bespoke creations by Australia’s top Architects go under the hammer for Dance For Life
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On the Town!
From Futurespace’s famous client party to a restaurant opening and an intimate fine dining experience – here’s what’s been happening in the industry. Have you been out and about on the town?
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5 minutes with Tom Fereday on OMNI
Developed in collaboration with Earp Bros, OMNI is an entirely new design direction for designer Tom Fereday. We get the insights about the winner of The Object category from the 2019 INDE.Awards.
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2 days, 2 floors, 60 brands and less than 2 weeks to go
FRONT.design is a two-day trade event that is your golden ticket to research the commercial design market, make new and meaningful connections and source innovative products and solutions… and do it all under one roof. Here are some useful tips and ideas on making your visit count.
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Furniture, friends and fun
Created to challenge the traditional preconceptions of a conventional meeting room, BoPo by Haworth activates the space in front of the Bowery Lane café and encourages a new way of conversation.
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Microsoft Technology Centre, by Tom Mark Henry
How to make a global tech giant with a transient workforce feel at home? Find out with Sydney’s new Microsoft Technology Centre.
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INDE.Awards 2019 Gala: Towards progressive design thinking
A night to celebrate and honour the best in architecture and design in APAC. Here’s what went down at this premier design awards…
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Who wins gold at the INDE.Awards 2019? Here are the winners
The day has arrived… the INDE.Awards 2019 Gala. The winners have been revealed in a glamorous affair at Melbourne Museum, here we showcase them all.
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Who will take home INDEs Gold?
In just under three weeks, the winners of the INDE.Awards 2019 will be announced at a grand gala event in Melbourne. Here’s the full download ahead of the big night.
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“Innovative and awe-inducing” – Announcing INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist
The results are out! We’re excited to introduce you to your INDE.Awards 2019 Official Shortlist. Read on to find out which entries made the final cut.
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Introducing your 2019 INDE.Awards partners
As the INDE.Awards continues to be a true reflection of design and architecture from the Asia Pacific region – it is our partners, through their support, that show what the industry has to offer.
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Top 5 tips for thinking like an agile designer
The desire to be an agile designer is strong in today’s busy design community, but what does this mean exactly?
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RMIT New Academic Street
The redevelopment of RMIT’s so-called ‘grey ghosts’ signals a much-anticipated final instalment in the University’s long – decades in fact – campus transformation.
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NAB Place
The National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Brisbane Headquarters, NAB Place, designed by global architecture firm, Woods Bagot, sets a new benchmark in collaborative workplace environments.
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Suncorp
Sometimes the most highly evolved designs are incomplete. When conceptualising the new Suncorp headquarters in Sydney, the interiors team at Geyer worked to the idea of ‘designing to 80%’. The result is a radical take on the oft-used idea of workplace flexibility. While the building caters to the needs of its residents in the present, it comprehensively avoids dictating what these needs will be in the future.
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Mirvac HQ
When builder/developer Mirvac decided half-way through the development process for the EY Centre at 200 George Street, Sydney to move their headquarters into six levels of the building, it was a vote of confidence in their own project.
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Why is it important for brands to invest in R+D?
Our industry now understands the value of data, science, and the importance of supporting the wellbeing and health of the end-user. But what is the value of R+D to the ‘best practice’ of design?
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Sit Well, Work Well, Feel Well: Meet FERN!
Wellbeing has definitely taken over the working world – with many brands now investing millions into research and development to improve our overall health. One design in particular has really taken this a step further … meet FERN!
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The Agile Insight Handbook: Technology, Trends And Choice For 2018
Vice President of Haworth International, Glen Foster, shares his insights into the changing face of the contemporary professional landscape.
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What Can We Do For Our Industry’s Next Generation?
With so many talented individuals and practices crowding our country’s A+D sector, how does one break through and gain global recognition? Well, it’s a matter of getting a helping hand!
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Haworth Launches The New Penumbra
The long-awaited launch of ‘Penumbra’, the winning design from Haworth’s Celebrating Great Design Contest, has the A+D world enthralled!
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Deloitte Perth, by Geyer
How does the world’s most influential auditing firm self-audit? Designed by Geyer, the new Deloitte Head Quarters in Perth is a stellar case study for self-analysis and designing for the (sometimes opposing) needs of many in a single space.
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Western Sydney University, by Woods Bagot
Integrated technology might be commonplace in the workplace, but in education spaces it’s still a fairly new phenomenon. At Western Sydney University, Woods Bagot’s vertical campus design raises the bar in more ways than one.
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Jemena Melbourne by Woods Bagot
In an era where technology and the ‘digerati’ rules all, we feel a strong need to make close online connections with the world at large. But how does this sense of connectivity and community translate to the physical workplace, and by extension, its design? In Jemena’s new Melbourne headquaters, seven floors and 800+ people have offered up a juicy challenge in exploring how design might create a sense of communal familiarity in a large-scale environment.
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Furniture for Conversations
If hospitality is a crucial part of the future workplace, what will be the effect on commercial furniture? Haworth’s observations indicate some emerging trends.
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Let’s Get Real About AGILE… yeah?
Why is ‘agile working’ so confusing? Why is it impossible to wrap our heads around what it means? Well … welcome to your education. Let’s get to it!
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10 Minutes with Josh Carmody: Haworth Great Design Winner
Indesign catches up with one of Haworth’s Celebrating Great Design Winners, Josh Carmody. Here we find out about the story of design in Melbourne, Milan and Shanghai: a truly global journey.
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Mid-Century for New Times
Enduringly appealing mid-century Scandinavian design is faithfully reproduced and translated into new forms by Shanghai-based brand MatzForm, which is reaching into the contract market through its partnership with Haworth’s x Friends program.
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Organic Workspaces: The Future of the Workspace
To what extent can the workplace be an evolutionary environment? Haworth sees the future of the workspace as ‘organic’ by necessity, and offers a range of capabilities to put flexibility within reach.
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Products for a Playful Office
Is fun part of the future of the office? Yes, says Jason Bird of Luxxbox, who develops products for workspaces where home, work and playfulness exist together in a modern mash-up.
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Your Latest Digital Resource for Specifying + Designing
Haworth has launched a new site intended to be a one-stop home for specifiers looking for the best for their projects.
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Designing Happiness
Does a ping-pong table make for happy, engaged workers? According to new research by Haworth, there’s much more at play than that.
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Pop the Bubbly: Announcing the Winners of the Haworth Design Contest
From countless entries to a handful of finalists to one final winner, Haworth has crowned a team from Woods Bagot Melbourne the winners of the Celebrating Great Design contest.
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Finding Privacy in the Modern Workplace
The workspace is buzzing with a dedicated focus on open-plan and collaborative workplace design, but how can we achieve a piece of privacy within such a crowded and distracting space?
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From New Zealand to the World
Fletcher Vaughan, the founder of New Zealand-based commercial furniture brand Fletcher Systems, develops smart modular commercial furniture that taps into contemporary design trajectories and the ways we dwell in shared spaces.
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The Art of Spanish Collaboration
Design icon Patricia Urquiola collaborated with Haworth and fellow Spanish design heavyweight GAN to create a series of sumptuous rugs that add a pop of personality to any workspace.
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Addressing noise in the agile workplace
Relying on acoustic design solutions to help mitigate noise and improve efficiency at the workplace with Haworth.
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Exploring NeoCon 2016
Chicago’s NeoCon is the United States’ answer to Salone del Mobile, showcasing the latest innovations in commercial design from across the world.
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Natural Sitting With the Fern Chair
When we think about ‘seating’, we often think of an object: something tactile and physical. Yet when we think about ‘sitting’, we think about an organic action, comfort, and relaxation. Haworth’s Fern chair reworks traditional design with a focus on sitting, rather than seating.
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In the Palm of Your Hand: The Harbor Work Lounge
Nicolai Czumaj-Bront has worked with Haworth as an industrial designer since 2005, and is now currently Haworth’s Design Lead for Europe. Having grown up in a creative household, he strives to design product solutions with an emphasis on translating the abstract into something tangible.
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Reviewing Salone del Mobile 2016
At Salone del Mobile 2016 visitors from across the world spent a whirlwind week discovering the latest offerings from some of the most exciting names in the industry. We had the opportunity to find out what Liz Teh, the Head of Design for Haworth Asia Pacific, thought were the best design trends and exhibitions this year.
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SPACE IN THE OPEN: AIR3 PODS FAMILY
Why build walls? This simple yet significant question drove the development of a new family of demountable meeting room pods for Haworth xFriends.
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Patricia Urquiola Discusses Design Collaboration
The winner of Haworth’s Celebrating Great Design Contest will workshop their design at Studio Urquiola. We find out more from Patricia Urquiola about what the judges will be looking for.
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Haworth Collection Showcase Comes to Shanghai – IDL
Celebrating the launch of the Haworth Collection, Giulio Cappellini and the Haworth team hosted a series of industry events set among a curated showcase of iconic designs at the Haworth showroom in the Jing’An Kerry Centre of Shanghai’s central business district.
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Introducing Haworth Collection – IDL
Uniting the unrivalled design legacy of Poltrona Frau, Cappellini, Cassina and Haworth – Haworth Collection presents a curated selection of heritage and modern designs tailored to the Asia Pacific market.
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Making the Workspace Open Source
Haworth xFriends is an exciting approach to collaboration and partnership which aims to make workspace design ‘open source’ and accessible to local markets, while sharing the stories of designers. We had a chat with Haworth’s xFriends Integration Manager, Alex Przybyla, about the project.
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Designing for the new Workplace
Introducing Sakuru: an inspiring meeting and working table from Haworth and Gavin Harris that’s made to capture the needs of all users
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