The Framery project was born in 2010 in the Finnish city of Tampere, a city with a strong innovation cultur. It is home to many hot tech start-ups, as well as technological giants like Nokia.
The company was founded by two young guys who were working as engineers at an IT company at the time. They were often distracted by their boss talking loudly on his phone, which made it hard for them to focus on demanding tasks. They started looking for a phone booth for him, but they weren’t happy with what they saw on the market. So, they invented their own.
Today Framery’s range still includes the ever-popular phone booth as well as bigger pods for meetings, interviews, and video conferences. They enjoy global recognition as manufacturer of comfortable private spaces with outstanding acoustic qualities, having won a number of prestigious industry design awards over the past few years, including Gold awards at NeoCon and IIDEX Canada.
The best way to appreciate the Framery booths’ unrivalled acoustics is to try them in person.
Light Cognitive was born from the realisation that light plays a fundamental role in our lives and health. By recreating natural light in indoor space the company created the range Big Sky . Light has a strong link to wellbeing as it regulates our circadian cycle and alertness. The right kind of light, timed correctly, promotes recovery and a good sleep-wake cycle.
All their products can be manually set to different light scenes. In addition, Big Sky can respond to the growing need for the urban environment to feel connected to nature.
Loook Industries: In 2009, two designers sat in a noisy business lounge, struggling to discuss the latest design trends. They realised that our lifestyles have become more mobile over the last decade. Our stress levels and ability to sleep have been compromised, while our levels of privacy have been reduced. As a result, Loook Industries was born. Loook Industries’ aim is to design for today’s mobile lifestyle – combining technology & privacy
Did you know that most of us spend 90% of our daily lives indoors? Most of us live in cities, isolated from nature. We breathe sterilised manmade air a thousand times an hour. This is one of the biggest environmental health risks of our generation according to the World Health Organisation.
Work environments should improve our wellbeing, not damage it. Unfortunately, today’s average office can stop you from performing at your best by draining employee’s health and productivity.
Finnish Company Naava is redefining the air we breathe indoors with smart green walls. Naava’s walls act as a humidifier, room divider and air purifier. Microbes in the plants’ roots purify chemicals in the air, hence reducing illness and fatigue whilst improving cognitive performance.
Founded in 2013, Air0 aims to give everyone the luxury of breathing clean air from Finland with “zero pollutants in the air”. Back in the ’70s, the Finnish government invested a lot in research groups dedicated to removing particles and bad pollutants from the air. As a result, today, Finland breathes the cleanest air on the planet. Air0’s founders were involved in the indoor air industry and discovered that 9 out of 10 people in the whole world breathe polluted air. It affects people’s health, wellbeing and can cause significant ill effects in the long term. To create clean air, they introduced smAIRt® technology, which combines the benefit of a traditional air purifier with smart and unique technology. It produces a large amount of pure air and is able to clean a whole room whilst being silent and requiring little maintenance. It is also scalable, with the option to add multiple rooms to one system which is all managed via an App or web. And finally Air0 looks like a modern piece of furniture and not a plastic air purifier; yet it delivers the purest indoor air.
The Finnish brand Tablebed was established by Dine Renfors to maximise the use of space. He combined the two most space taking items in the home – the table and the bed. The product is inspired by minimalism and taking maximum advantage of the living space. With the innovative patented mechanism, the furniture can easily be turned from a table into a bed no faster than 10 seconds.
The Finish brand recently won the Sleep & Eat Award 2020 in the best product category. Tablebed was also awarded in 2019 with Design from Finland Mark and was part of several fairs such as the Spring Fair 2019 in Helsinki or the IMM 2020 in Cologne.
Artome is a Finnish brand founded in 2016 by Toni Parikka. The company is specialised in cable-free furniture solution to provide a high level of flexibility in workplaces. All products provide excellent audio and video for all types of meeting. Whether you have a presentation and a meeting on the same day at the same place, installation and cabling is no longer an issue with Artome. The products come with built-in laser projector, sound system and castors.
“Thank you so much for coming all the way to Whipps Cross, you made the staff very happy today. Many thanks for the Neurosonic products – we are so excited to have them in the department”. Dr Jessica Best Opthalomy Education Fellow, Education Academy Whipps Cross