WAYLAND, NEW YORK – May 21, 2018 – Building on the successful Silea™ casegoods brand, designer Mitch Bakker, principal of IDa Design, wanted to expand the possibilities across the workplace with Silea by providing furniture applications in both closed and community spaces, broadening the materials and options available, and incorporating height adjustability into the aesthetic of the product.
“Silea is extremely versatile and beautifully imagined with a breadth of materiality to suit an array of tastes, while staying sensitive to budget,” Bakker explained. “Today’s work environments are ever-evolving, and Silea creates spaces that not only speak to a work style, but addresses times of privacy, times of collaboration, and times of mobility.”
IDA designed enclosed office spaces suitable for the executive, minimal footprint and minimal aesthetic offices, and applications suitable for small enclosures used for private calls and touchdown work.
“Focused work and privacy are necessary for productivity,” Zach Raven, IDA Design Lead stated. “We didn’t want to lose sight of that in the redesign.”
Multiuse office configurations with collaborative extensions, small meeting tables, writable surfaces, and media-enabled tack zones can transition a private office space into a guest presentation and interaction area. This same office easily then morphs into a lively teaming space.
“Silea makes the most of multi-functional spaces whether enclosed or in a larger, community space,” said Jason Wolfanger, director of product development for Gunlocke. “Employees, who may travel frequently, can use these offices when they are not traveling for focused work, but the space becomes a casual meeting or project space by other team members when they are out of the office.”
From the shaping of new work surfaces to the non-handed pulls, the gracefully modern aesthetic of Silea is intentionally designed to accommodate individual taste and workstyles - down to the smallest detail. Silea flexes for the way people really work, with sit-to-stand adjustability, seamless integration of technology management, and components to connect thinkers and facilitate collaboration. This includes mobility in the communal space. The Silea WorkWall — in both free standing and wall mounted versions — and the Lounge Level Media is a perfect complement to the casual meeting space, as well as the ideal touchdown space for the worker on the move.
Silea material options start with flat cut, as well as quarter cut natural veneer; Stratawood, a rapidly renewable, reconstituted, straight-grain veneer; thirteen laminate options; and four paint options for the chassis and main components. Other materials provide choices for environments seeking a mixed-material look, including six back-painted glass options, three solid surfaces, and four metal finishes.
Silea will be at Gunlocke’s showroom June 11 through 13 at the Mart in Chicago, Suite 1126, for NeoCon 2018 and available for orders July 23, 2018.
For more information about Silea or Gunlocke, contact 1-800-828-6300 or visit www.gunlocke.com.