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UK: Office Furniture: Office Furniture Suppliers


ABOUT OFFICE FURNITURE

Office furniture is available in two main forms: free-standing office furniture, and workstations incorporating low level partitions. Free-standing office furniture has the advantage of flexibility in layout. Workstations have the advantage that they may best use of space.

Office furniture is mainly made from timber or steel. Modern systems have extensive facilities for running cabling for computers and telecommunications within the furniture.

The leading UK suppliers of office furniture, listed below the panel of sponsored links, have comprehensive websites with illustrated online catalogues, price lists, and details of product specifications.

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LEADING UK OFFICE FURNITURE SUPPLIERS

Spaceway: office furniture. Spaceway, based in Romsey, Hampshire is an independent distributor of office furniture, supplying product from leading contract furniture manufacturers worldwide. It specialises in multi-supplier procurement contracts, managed on an 'open book' basis. Its product range includes: system furniture, task seating, screen systems, boardroom furniture, reception furniture, storage products, and cafe/leisure furniture.

Steelcase is a leading supplier of office furniture. Based in the USA, it specialises in steel furniture. This dates to 1914, when Steelcase patented the first metal waste paper bin - formerly the basketwork ones were a serious fire hazard. It now supplies a wide range of modern office system furniture, including work stations, filing cabinet, storage, partitions, conference room furniture, and space dividers.

Herman Miller is renowned as a manufacturer of well designed office furniture. Leading designers whose designs have been produced by Herman Miller include Eames, Nelson, and Noguchi. In thje 1960s it pioneered advanced open plan office furniture. In the 1970s it had a great success with the Ergon desk chair, succeeded in the 1990s by the famous Aeron chair.

Bisley is Europe's leading supplier of steel office storage furniture. This includes traditional filing cabinets and modern filing cabinet with long drawers and sideways storage of files. Its highly automated factory in Newport produces more than twenty thousand pieces of furniture each week. Bisley filing cabinets have welded joints and twin skin fronts to the drawers. Drawer slides incorporate roller ball bearings for smooth action. Bisley's Newport production facilities, totalling 64,000 square metres, deliver a combined output of over 20,000 pieces of office furniture per week. Bisley employs the most advanced office furniture manufacturing processes from in-house tool making and computer aided design through to precision folding, laser cutting fully-automated powder paint plant machinery.

Click here for an easy-to-use listing of leading UK suppliers of office furniture, provided by Archbone.

Other useful links relevant to office furniture and suppliers:

British Furniture Manufacturers Association

Furniture Industry Research Association

DETAILED INFORMATION RESOURCES ON OFFICE FURNITURE

We recommend the following professional construction directories, which include manufacturers' specifications and CAD details: Barbour Compendium at www.barbourcompendium.co.uk, RIBA Product Selector Plus at ww.productselector.co.uk, ASC Bricsnet at www.ascinfo.co.uk, Building Products Index at www.bpindex.co.uk, British Board of Agrément at www.bbacerts.co.uk, British Standards Online at www.bsonline.bsi-global.com.





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