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-- Interior Design, 6/15/2009 12:00:00 AM

Tuohy Kaesi

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Kansas City–based interior design firm Clockwork introduces its first piece of furniture to be produced by a major manufacturer—Kaesi. The comfy chair features a slope for laid-back sitting in either corporate or hospitality settings. The line comprises a lounge chair with either metal legs or a swivel base, and a series of tables and case goods ranging from a round side table and low tables with storage to credenzas.

Joel Berman Glass Studios Salt

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This Salt isn't edible, but it's certainly colorful. The granulate material is made from either new or recycled glass cullet and is dyed with pigments before being transformed into flat glass sheets. Four different grain sizes and 32 colors are available.

Cambridge Commercial Cachet

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Color appears to float on Cachet, a new carpet offered in broadloom and tile formats. Consisting of 25 percent recycled pre-consumer content, the product is offered in ten neutral and earthy colorways.

KI Intellect Wave

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KI expands on its Intellect Wave line of classroom furniture with new seating options such as flexible shell seats with waterfall fronts to minimize leg pressure, and a ribless shell design that's easier to clean. Also available are new tablet armchairs and a variety of desks.

Carnegie Ponte, Santana, Rigato, and Porto

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Alongside its staple Ponte, Creation Baumann is presenting its new fabrics Santana, a window treatment, and Rigato and Porto, a window or wall covering. All are Trevira CS and come in a variety of neutral or bold colorways.

Pallas Textiles Ground Breaking

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The company partners with Laura Guido-Clark to present Ground Breaking, a biodegradable polyurethane upholstery line. Not only is the collection low VOC, it's also free of PVC, antimony, and heavy metals.

Maharam Digital Projects

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Pacify or provoke? Maharam customers favoring the second option will welcome the debut of Maharam Digital Projects, which translates the work of visual artists and graphic designers into wall coverings, turning any space into an installation. The textile specialist collaborated with Wallpaper Lab, the manufacturer of limited-edition wall coverings, to kick off the series with two 10-by-36-foot designs. Douglas Gordon's Two Minutes: Playing Dead is a grid composed of tiny film frames depicting an elephant learning to. . . play dead. Karel Martens contributed Dutch Clouds, in which thousands of multicolored graphic icons form a pointillist sky-scape. In the fabrication process, digital images are printed with water-based ink on a nonwoven cellulose-latex blend and given a matte or glossy finish. Both patterns can be custom-scaled to fit; they can also be rendered on other substrates for window coverings or upholstery.

Knoll Generation

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Knoll calls it holistic ergonomics: complete support of the seated body's fluid state of motion. This concept defines the Generation by Knoll task chair, a collaboration with Formway Design's Kent Parker. The development process entailed stripping away some of the bells and whistles found on the current crop of task chairs, resulting in a control mechanism known as dynamic suspension, which uses approximately 30 percent fewer parts.

The support system is produced by the chair's figure-eight frame of reinforced polyester, available in Onyx or Meteor. Choose a base to match or a contrasting version in polished aluminum. A high-performance, thermoplastic polyester-composite elastomer creates the backrest's flexible mesh. It's offered in nine colors including Lemongrass, Pebble, and Firecracker—as is the polyester upholstery on the urethane-foam seat. A range of KnollTextiles fabrics is also available. For the polyurethane arm pads, select light or dark gray.