Notes Design

Taking your work home is nothing new, but taking your home to work? A new furniture company is trying to do just that. Coalesse, part of the Steelcase family, is launching a new lifestyle of work -- one where offices are places of life, community and nuances. Partnering with the likes of Carl Hansen & Son (Denmark), Walter Knoll AG & Co. (Germany), Viccarbe (Spain), and PP Mobler (Denmark), as well as drawing on Steelcase's brands (Brayton, Metro and Vecta), the Coalesse collection offers beautifully executed alternatives - albeit at luxury price points - for the cubically challenged.

We've got some choice snaps from our recent tour of the showroom in the Chicago Merchandise Mart after the jump and must admit the detailing and craftsmanship are to die for, but we're still unsure of how the corporate world will respond to all this. Sure, design-y types get it -- beautiful, well made (and locally made! more on that soon) furniture deserves to be part of all our work-spaces, but with price points well beyond the reach of "normal" budgets, this collection seems to demand big corporate clients to succeed.