The Unfolding Office

Articles

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  101 Office

  Buried in TPS reports? Somebody take your red stapler? Don't let The Man get you down--our inclusive review of office environments and accessories will have you whistling while you work.

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  A Stable Office Environment

  Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a private place to work, but instead served as a traffic circle in…

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  There’s No Place Like Home

  Telecommuting may let you answer email in your underwear, but is the home office all it’s cracked up to be?

Products

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  Office Partitions

  The Sliding Door Co. brings you the brightest ideas in workspace. Walls that are as sturdy as they are beautiful. As design-flexible as they are safe. Our doors feature exclusive locking and roller…

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  Sayl Office Chair

  Taking the grand span of a suspension bridge as his model, San Francisco–based designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject swooped into the task seating market with this techy, inexpensive…

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  Tai Wood Executive Office Desk

  The Tai Wood Executive Office Desk Satisfies ones desire to possess contemporary home office furniture by making a careful composition consisting of a lavish work top with two fixed pedestals at…

Dwell Collections

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  Office Space

  We sifted through some past issues to find images of what some may argue to be the hardest working room in the house.

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  Editors' Picks Places

  Editors' Picks Places

Tips

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  The Office Desk Should Be Clean and Simple but Inviting

  There should be enough space in your desk to keep some of your personal belongings and items like photographs but not too much space so it becomes a place to rest everything.

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  A Desk Chair Should Always Sport Wheels

  You need to be able to move around. Pay attention to the arms of the chair and the height of the desk to make sure you can scoot around and not get an arm stuck between the chair and the desk.

Events

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  Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City

  This exhibition is a critical exploration of the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture and the city. It will imagine alternative trajectories for how various mobile…

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  Place Making: Installations at Hayes & Octavia

  Witness the transformation from space to place as the first of three installations are built at proxy, in the heart of Hayes Valley. Join Andy Vogt, a sculptor working with wood in creating an…

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  2009 "Story About a Place" Competition

  This is a showcase of entrants to a film competition that called for moving image stories (under 6 minutes) that explore the social, environmental, political, technological, and economic issues…