Best Wall Covering of the Year 2023
Category: Furniture - Floor and Wallcovering Units Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Designer: FLOR, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Manufacturer: FLOR, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Path is the most sustainable task chair on the market as a result of both the composition and manufacturing process. Over five years in the making, the chair is composed of nearly twenty-two pounds of recycled content, including ocean plastic, post-consumer plastic bottles, and post-industrial material. A complete reinvention of the supply chain, every component of the chair except for the screws was designed and engineered by Humanscale.
Path’s structural components, including parts of the mechanism and the arms, are processed from fishing nets that are collected by local fishermen. These materials are collected within 50km of coastlines, thus preventing potential damage to our oceans and their delicate ecosystems.
Equally as innovative as Path’s design is Humanscale’s trademarked FormSense Eco Knit™ material, a mesh-like textile whose yarn is made with 100% post-consumer recycled polyester from approximately 68 upcycled plastic bottles per Path chair.
Knitted exactly to the shape of the chair, FormSense Eco Knit™ eliminates the need for cutting or sewing, creating zero waste. In line with Humanscale’s commitment to healthy materials, Path is toxin-free and comes with transparency labels.
It is certified net-positive by the International Living Furniture Institute’s Living Product Challenge (LPC), the strictest and most holistic sustainability framework for products in the industry. This certification means that every time one of these chairs are made, they’re leaving the planet better off, measured by adding together “footprints” (the damage caused to the environment) and “handprints” (the positive impact brought to the environment).
The chair received a 20/20 rating by the LPC, setting a new benchmark for responsible manufacturing. Designed for inclusivity of the 95th percentile of the population, Path ensures a personalized fit to every body type. Applying the laws of physics, Humanscale’s Gravity Mechanism™ automatically adjusts recline support to each user, eliminating the need for manual adjustments.
As the speciality design brand of Interface, FLOR has been bringing premium rugs to residential and commercial spaces since 2003. FLOR carpet tiles are beautiful, easy to install and sustainably sourced. Our innovative area rug solution is the perfect design accent for offices, conference rooms, and high-profile collaborative spaces.
FLOR rugs have all the performance benefits of Interface products and come with a 15-year warranty, so they’ll get the job done for years to come. All FLOR products integrate with Interface’s flooring system. Bringing together carpet tiles and resilient flooring to create unlimited design options and beautifully considered spaces that deliver a consistent level of performance that you’d expect from Interface. We love working here and think you will too.
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