July 7, 2006—Steelcase Inc. has announced it received a Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) for its Think chair, a smart, simple and environmentally sustainable seating product that adjusts itself to individual user’s needs.
The IDEAs are co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek magazine and recognize products that exemplify excellence in design.
After three years of extensive research and development, Steelcase developed the Think chair to have both a “brain” and a “conscience.” The Think chair “thinks” for the user, anticipating user needs and reacting to them by automatically adjusting itself, moving fluidly with the body and providing support in proportion to body weight. By combining the ideas of sophistication and simplicity, the chair provides a unique solution to benefit the end user.
The Think chair is comprised of up to 41 percent recycled content, is 99 percent recyclable by weight and can be disassembled for recycling in five minutes with common hand tools, says the company.
For more information, visit the Steelcase Web site.
