Over 80 awards for top contract furnishing products were recently announced during NeoCon® 2010 in Chicago. It was the 21st year for the "Best of NeoCon" awards, co-sponsored this year by Contract magazine, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc., the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and McMorrowReport.com.
Products were judged by a group of management executives from corporate, government and institutional facilities along with selected international designers and architects. The 45 jurors were split up into eight different teams, with each team visiting the product showrooms and market suites to view and judge the products in person. More than 325 products from a total of 39 different product categories were evaluated and judged.
This year's highly coveted Best of Competition award was given to Wilkhahn, a German company, for their office seating technology which they call ON ®.
Five years in the making, the ON series 170 office chairs utilize swivel points that precisely follow movements of the seated individual's knee and hip joint positions at any point in time, yielding what Wilkhahn describes as a "perfect and synchronous movement concept using innovative, synchro-supporting 3D kinematics".
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