A refined system that boasts an adaptable approach to the work space and encourages individuation in shared environments has been duly recognised at NeoCon.
July 9th, 2013
NeoCon brings the biggest names in contract furniture and commercial interiors together in Chicago, a meeting of the industry’s leaders, where the best-of-the-best reveal their latest collections and innovations for the office space.

This year the best of NeoCon Gold award for benching Furniture was presented to Swiss Designer Daniel Korb (Co-founder of Xchange Design) and OFS brands for the XF work platform (Promoted as Eleven work space in the USA).
Building on the notion that “furniture is architecture on a different scale”, Korb from Xchange Design developed a system based offering that seamlessly blends functionality, connectivity, storage and the capability for media integration.

Xchange Design is an international furniture design company with distribution partners in Europe, USA, Asia & Australia. The company was created by Swiss architect and furniture designer Daniel Korb and Anthony Kotarac, a Sydney based architect and furniture designer who both share a passion for high quality well designed furniture and wanted to create an International Design community platform through Xchange.
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