by Brianna Crandall — June 12, 2019 — The winners of the 2019 Best of NeoCon Competition were announced on Monday (June 10), during an awards breakfast hosted by Contract magazine on the first day of the NeoCon commercial interiors show held this week at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. A total of 83 awards in 39 categories were distributed in this year’s competition of contract furnishings products, including eight Innovation awards, six Editors’ Choice awards, and a Best of Competition prize, which went to OFS for Obeya.
OFS Obeya, designed by Webb Associates, won the Best of Competition. In the category of Architectural Products, Obeya is a wood framework that brings people together for privacy and community. Image courtesy OFS
NeoCon
Celebrating its 51st year, NeoCon is a premier exposition and conference for commercial interiors, and is attended by over 50,000 architecture, design and facilities management (FM) professionals and specifiers annually from around the world.
With nearly 1 million square feet of exhibition space showcasing 500 leading companies, the show launches thousands of new products and covers a spectrum of vertical markets including workplace, healthcare, hospitality, retail, education, public spaces and government.
Best of NeoCon
Celebrating its 30th year, the prestigious Best of NeoCon Competition honors new commercial interiors products that are introduced to the market since the close of the previous edition of NeoCon in 42 categories ranging from Acoustic Panels & Solutions to Workplace Technologies.
Best of NeoCon jurors — architects, interior designers and FM executives responsible for selecting and buying furniture and furnishings for their organizations or clients — reviewed hundreds of entries digitally and in person immediately prior to the opening of the show. Manufacturers and product designers had the opportunity to explain and discuss details of the product and answer jurors’ questions.
Teknion’s Tek Vue, Gold winner in the Movable Walls category, is a glass office-front system that responds to the essential needs of today’s workplace. Image courtesy Teknion
The Best of NeoCon Competition is presented by Contract magazine, and sponsored by NeoCon and The McMorrow Reports Facility Management & Design Insights.
The jurors selected Gold and Silver winners in each category, as well as Innovation Awards and a Best of Competition winner. Contract editors also selected winners for the Editors’ Choice awards. Winners will be showcased in the July/August issue of Contract.
Best of Competition
Obeya from OFS won the Best of Competition as well as a Gold award in the Architectural Products category. It was designed by Webb Associates. Obeya is a wood framework that brings people together for privacy and community. Look for more details about Obeya in a future FMLink article, as well as articles showcasing other products exhibited during NeoCon 2019 that may be of interest to facilities managers (FMs).
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2019 Best of NeoCon winners
The 2019 winners, listed alphabetically by categories, are:
* BEST OF COMPETITION
Acoustic Panels & Solutions
- Gold: Snowsound: FLAT
- Silver: Luxxbox: Linea Acoustic LED Lighting System
Acoustic Privacy & Modular Solutions
- Gold: OFS: LeanTo
- Silver: Framery Acoustics: Framery 2Q
Architectural & Decorative Glass
- Silver: Skyline Design: Oblique & Chevron
Architectural Products
- Gold and Best of Competition: OFS: Obeya
- Silver: Connectrac: Flex
Carpet: Broadloom
- Gold: Tarkett: Tatami System
- Silver: Mohawk Group: Textural Effects
Carpet: Contract Area Rugs
- Innovation: Mohawk Group: Connecting Neurons Definity
Carpet: Modular
- Gold: Patcraft: Deconstructed Felt
- Silver: Shaw Contract: Suited
Case Goods
- Gold: HALCON: HALO Office
- Silver: Herman Miller: Geiger One Casegoods
Conference Room Furniture
- Gold: Nucraft: Alev
- Silver: Andreu World: Reverse Wood
- Innovation: Tuohy Furniture Corp.: Meich Tables
Education Solutions
- Gold: VS America: JUMPER
- Silver: Keilhauer: Buncha
Flooring: Hard Surface LVT & Planks
- Gold: Patcraft: Handloom
- Silver: Milliken & Co.: Change Agent LVT
- Innovation: Metroflor Corp.: Metroforms with Attraxion Magnetic Attachment Technology
Furniture Collections for Collaboration
- Gold: Steelcase: Flex Collection
- Silver: STYLEX: Free Address
- Innovation: Teknion: Bene Box
Furniture Systems & Enhancements
- Gold: Watson Furniture Group: Cloud 9 Rail
- Silver: HALCON: HALO Office
Furniture: Benching
- Gold: Innovant: Cross Benching
Healthcare Fabrics & Textiles
- Gold: Designtex: Biophilia 2.0
- Silver: CF Stinson: Chiaroscuro Collection
Healthcare Flooring
- Gold: Teknoflor: Coordination Collection
- Silver: Mohawk Group: True Hues
Healthcare Guest & Lounge Seating
- Gold: Kwalu: Prizzi Lounge
Healthcare Patient Seating
- Silver: Spec Furniture: Tailor HD
Lighting: Decorative & Hospitality
- Gold: Eaton: Shaper Sense Acoustic LED Luminaires
- Silver: LightArt: Acoustic Wing
Lounge Furniture Collections
- Gold: Haworth Inc.: Cabana Lounge
- Silver: Andreu World: Rap Sofa
Movable Walls
- Gold: Teknion: Tek Vue
- Silver: Allsteel: Beyond Pavilion
Office Accessories
- Gold: Allsteel: Radii
- Silver: Watson Furniture Group: Cloud 9 Cart and Garage
Seating: Bar Stools
- Gold: Davis Furniture Industries: Muse Barstool
- Editors’ Choice: Martin Brattrud: Cumbia
Seating: Benches
- Gold: Green Furniture Concept: Nova C Perch
- Silver: Allermuir: Axyl Bench
- Editors’ Choice: Nienkämper: Heartbeat
Seating: Conference
- Gold: OFS: Kasura
- Silver: Davis Furniture Industries: M75
Seating: Ergonomic Desk/Task
- Gold: via seating: Younique
- Silver: Nightingale Corp.: NLC
Seating: Guest
- Gold: Allermuir: Kin
- Silver: Andreu World: Gala
Seating: Outdoor Contract & Hospitality
- Silver: Andreu World: Nuez Outdoor
Seating: Sofas & Lounge
- Gold: Andreu World: Rap sofa
- Silver: Green Furniture Concept: Nova C Recliner
Seating: Stacking
- Gold: Sandler Seating: HDS 1.1
- Silver: SitOnIt Seating | IDEON: Mika
Signage & Wayfinding
- Gold: Takeform: Lucid Refined Interior Signage
- Silver: 2/90 Sign Systems: SafeCare Signs
Space Dividers/Partitions/Screens
- Gold: Clarus Glassboards: Flex Wall
- Silver: Naava: Naava Flow
Tables: Communal & Task
- Gold: Nucraft: Epono
- Silver: Davis Furniture Industries: Inform
Tables: Height-Adjustable/Training/Work
- Gold: Watson Furniture Group: Cloud 9 Desk
- Silver: Senator International: Array
- Editors’ Choice: Versteel: Sky
Tables: Occasional
- Gold: Nucraft: Alev
- Editors’ Choice: Studio TK: Freehand Occasional Tables
- Innovation: Davis Furniture Industries: Lift
Technology-Integrated Solutions
- Gold: Steelcase: Roam
- Silver: National Lighting: Revive
- Innovation: Connectrac: Flex
Textiles: Upholstery
- Gold: HBF: Lost & Found
- Silver: Momentum Group: Architectural Textures Collection
- Editors’ Choice: Wolf Gordon: VEER
- Editors’ Choice: Luum Textiles: Future Tense Collection
- Innovation: Haworth Inc.: Haworth Knits
Wall Treatments
- Silver: Designtex: Metallic Wallcoverings
- Innovation: Momentum Group: Woven Silica
Workplace Technologies
- Gold: CF Stinson: designMix with colorAI
- Silver: FreeAxez: Gridd Mobile
Product descriptions and photos of the Best of NeoCon 2019 winners and entries in all 42 categories are viewable on the Contract Network site. Winners will be showcased in the July/August issue of Contract.
For more information on Teknion’s FM-related products, see the company’s FMLink ad.
