A Guide to Choosing Boarding School Seating Boarding schools need seating for many different environments, from dining halls, classrooms, and libraries to chapels, auditoriums, common spaces, and multipurpose rooms. The best approach is not necessarily to use the same chair everywhere. Instead, choose chairs according to...
Selecting classroom chairs, library chairs, and dining hall chairs for a private school is more than a matter of appearance. The right chair influences posture, focus, acoustics, and comfort. Whether it’s a classroom where students learn each day, a library that anchors quiet study, or...
Another Successful Project with Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy, a repeat customer, reached out to us for yet another project. This time, we partnered with Huston & Company to deliver Harkness Tables™ and Harkness Chairs™. Huston & Company built the tables for the project using...
Stack formation seating arrangement is an option you may want to explore for your classroom. There are literally dozens of different classroom arrangements. Don't get overwhelmed with all the options. You must consider the size of your classroom space when planning for different seating arrangements....
The COVID-19 pandemic effectively put our nation (and most of the world) at a standstill. As schools, libraries, and colleges plan to reopen, it is important to think about the seating arrangements in shared spaces....
Chairs have a significant impact on learning. Students spend hours upon hours sitting and the quality of the chairs beneath them directly affects their schooling. A distracted, fidgeting person gets nothing done. Remaining productive for long periods of time is challenging on its own without...
Like many of our chairs, the Westminster chair combines design elements of two of our other chairs, the Willard and the Oberlin. We originally designed it for a prestigious boarding school, the Westminster School. In addition, we made this chair in a stacking and non-stacking...
Our design team modeled the Pembroke Hill after a classic “Schoolhouse” chair. We designed the Pembroke originally for the Pembroke Hill School. ...
Eventually all colleges and universities will be able to make a full return to in-person learning. What should desk arrangements look like when we take social distancing into account?...
The elegant Cross Campus chair, designed for Yale University, was one of our first wood tablet chair designs. This type of chair is also commonly known as a tablet desk or tablet arm desk. ...