July 4, 2012—The HON Company’s newest furniture collection, called Flock, was unveiled during NeoCon 2012 at The Merchandise Mart, Chicago. Flock was designed to create a welcoming center, nooks and other community areas where people migrate for collaboration. Facilities managers will find it meets the trend toward more collaborative workspaces—distinctive environments that are also conducive to dialogue, engagement and teaming.
Not only does Flock enable a cooperative work style among users, its components effectively collaborate with one another, as well as with the rest of the HON product portfolio, says the company. The configuration of tables and seating can be arranged to accommodate a team discussion, placed to provide an intimate one-on-one conversation, or shuffled into whatever formation is needed.
“Flock is designed to keep users connected to one another as well as to their traditional workspaces,” explains Flock designer Brian Kane. “If one prefers to perch and type, if a duo wants to corral two ottomans and sit to review a report, or if a team needs furniture for a roundtable discussion—Flock provides a solution. It continually invents, and reinvents, new ways to help achieve collaboration.”
Flock provides flexible, workable options. End chairs—with left or right arm options—can be used on their own, in tandem with their opposites to create a love seat, or with an armless lounge chair to form a sofa. Flock tables add to the permutation of possibilities. Contributing vertical dimension and illumination is the thoughtfully added floor lamp. It serves as a beacon, drawing users to the space, and its foot switch control is intuitive and easily accessible.
Flock is distinguished by its clean lines and simple geometric shapes of squares and circles. With 17 in. seat and table heights punctuated by the 29 in. seat back heights, a pleasing visual field of linear dimension and continuity is composed whatever the configuration. While every individual piece is sophisticated, it is the sum of the parts that makes Flock good looking and innovative.
Another attractive trait of Flock, notes The HON Company, is the reduced footprint it occupies, especially in an era where shrinking real estate puts a premium on every usable square foot of space
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