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Formerly called
  
Brayton, Metro, Vecta

Website
  
coalesse.com

Headquarters
  
Grand Rapids

Industry
  
Furniture

Parent organization
  
Steelcase

Founded
  
2008

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Areas served
  
North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)

Products
  
Office furniture, architectural and technology for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries

Profiles

YouTube

Creating coalesse s moss wall at neocon 2016


Coalesse is a United States-based furniture company founded in 2008. It is a division of Steelcase and creates products with the goal of encouraging collaboration. Coalesse is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan with their design headquarters in San Francisco and their main showroom located in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

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Company Overview

Coalesse launched in June 2008 at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago. It is a combination of Steelcase’s Brayton, Metro, and Vecta brands, but also includes pieces made by Carl Hansen & Son, Walter Knoll AG & Co., Viccarbe, and PP Mobler. Their original brand focus was on designing office and home furniture that appeals to what the company called “live/work lifestyles, but later shifted their focus away from creating home-oriented pieces toward creating more work-oriented pieces.”

In 2012, it was announced that Coalesse was planning to expand their business operations into Europe.

Design Studio & Designer Collaborations

Coalesse has a 4,000 square foot in-house design studio and a team of seven to eight internal designers, with many partners worldwide, such as:

  • Patricia Urquiola, Hosu chair
  • Michael Young, LessThanFive chair
  • Jean-Marie Massaud, Massaud collection
  • Scott Wilson, SW_1 collection
  • Emilia Borgthorsdottir, Sebastopol table
  • Cory Grosser, CG_1 table collection
  • Brian Kane, Bindu chair collection
  • Arik Levy, EMU Pattern collection
  • Lievore Altherr Molina, sixfivezero_CO collection
  • Toan Nguyen, Lagunitas lounge and table
  • Jess Sorel, Denizen collection
  • Otto Williams, Denizen collection

    • Projects

    Coalesse has worked with companies such as Campbell Ewald, Scape, DirecTV, Grand Valley State University, Tolleson, and Quicken Loans to design some of their office spaces.

    Awards & Recognition

    Some of Coalesse’s products have received awards at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair:

    Other Awards & Recognitions

  • 2009 Bronze Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America for their Vecta Akira tables
  • 2009 Good Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design for their Andoo and Holy Day lines of chairs and tables
  • 2009 Bronze IDEA Award for their Akira collection of tables
  • 2010 Sustainability Award from Designs With Dignity
  • 2013 Red Dot and Gold iF Design Awards for their Hosu chair
  • 2015 Red Dot award for the Massaud work lounge with ottoman

    • In 2016, Coalesse’s LessThanFive Chair was included in an exhibit at Grand Hornu in Belgium that showcased the work of designer Michael Young.

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    References

    Coalesse Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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