Coalesse

Every fall semester Texas Tech University hosts an event called Design Expo. Design Expo features a wide range of vendors with products related to the field of interior design. The companies represented range from Sherwin-Williams to Daltile. It’s really fun to see all the cool new products and what’s in style this year. This year one vendor, Coalesse, really caught my eye.

Coalesse features a line of furniture for professional work settings and lifestyles. One of the reasons that I found Coalesse’s booth so interesting was one of the chairs they had sitting out for people to sit in and try out. It was a teal metal chair, and had a small cushion. It didn’t look like it was going to be very comfortable but when I sat in it I was happily surprised. It was a very comfortable and supportive chair for all its metal! I was also surprised to learn that it was an outdoor chair.

Typically when I think of office furniture, an outdoor setting doesn’t come to mind. However, innovative Coalesse new collection features just that; an office in an outdoor setting. The Emu Advanced Collection is the indoor/outdoor response to the new imperative of work and life as the line between them blurs. Coalesse’s thought is that “work can now go anywhere.”

The chair that was at Design Expo is part of the Re-Trouvé series by Patricia Urquiola. The series also has armchairs, poufs and vases and is inspired by the meeting of the present and the past: nostalgic design from the fifties with its curls and spirals combined with modern production. I loved the light airy feeling of the series and the colors available are so bright and fun. The rest of the collection is also fun and light. I really like the idea of being able to have an outdoor work area; it would be a nice change of pace from an office or cubical.

Coalesse is a great office furniture company that looks at how the piece of furniture can be used and the different settings it will be placed in, instead of just the piece of furniture itself. This gives their products a unique aspect that is different than other office furniture that I’ve seen. In the future when I have a career I plan on using Coalesse’s products because they are versatile, different, and beautiful pieces that will work well in many different offices.

*Information was taken from the Emu Advanced Collection brochure and www.coalesse.com