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Client: Parsons School of Design Architect: Rice + Lipka Architects
The Parsons School of Design Making Center, spanning 2 floors and 35,000SF, is a sprawling, dynamic hub for students to work side by side on projects as diverse as fashion, product design, architecture, print making – with the goal of “fostering a new generation of creators”. Milder Office worked closely with the Parsons School of Design team to develop furniture solutions that are durable, attractive and adaptable. Serving as both studio and classroom, with on site training and technical support for a wide range of tools, the Making Center is sure to inspire collaboration across disciplines.
Re-designed for a shop and maker environment, our Maker Series offers a robust reboot of the Milder Furniture System and includes tables in a variety of finishes including butcher block and Trespa, tool carts and mobile storage partitions units. All types are mobile, and the spaces are re-configured throughout the day, at will, by both students and instructors as they like, offering a truly adaptable learning space.
The aptly named Tool Cage is a central storage depot for hand tools and materials, where students can sign out equipment or pick up toolkits for their class. The Milder tool carts provide a convenient way to store and transport the tool laden wire baskets throughout the Making Center.
Some two dozen oversized Mobile Storage Partitions are dispersed throughout the Making Center, providing a convenient whiteboard and display surface for instruction and class presentations. Some of the units serve as temporary storage for student projects and materials, while others are used by the instructors to store their class supplies securely. Despite their size, the MSP units are easy to move and are sometimes ganged to create temporary walls.
For wet areas in maker spaces, print shops, and laboratory use, we recommend TRESPA tops. The tabletop is available in a range of sizes and comes 1” thick in white or black Trespa. We design with durability in mind. The pipe base with crossbars and diagonal struts creates a strong self-supporting base to which the trespa top is clipped.
Subframe in 3/4” birch plywood. Vertical supports and crossbars 1 3/8” Ø aluminum tubing, brushed and anodized finish. On levelers or 5” Ø fully locking casters.
Tops are also available in 1” thick birch plywood with HPL or FORBO desktop linoleum overlay.
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Client: Swarthmore College
Architect: Cava Architects
The renowned art and design university offers its students learning environments that are responsive to variety of teaching methodologies. Some departments encourage group work by providing a open plan studio setting with furniture that is easily reconfigured to suit different modalities. To that end, the Critical Studies Department relies on our T-partitions (mobile whiteboards), mobile storage partition units, and worktables.
Other programs, for example illustration and graphic design, foster individual development, and need to provide their students with private work spaces.
Milder Office also furnished office spaces for MICA faculty and administrators.
Credenzas are configured in widths up to four modules at desktop height. Our tall credenza features a double top for additional storage. Pedestals can be outfitted with drawers, doors, open storage and files in letter, legal, and lateral formats. Have a more than four pedestals in mind? Credenzas can be built to your preferred size.
Client: Rob!nhood Foundation
Architect: 1100 Architects
1100 Architects came to us with the concept of creating a standardized library shelving system that would feature two ‘hinge’ element that would allow the shelf elements to be connected at different angles. The ‘Bookworm’ elements could then be configured (grouped) in different ways, curving through the space, to match unique site conditions for each of the five library spaces.
The five public school libraries were installed as part of the L!brary Initiative sponsored by the Robinhood Foundation and NYC Department of Education.
The system is flexible and allowed for tall stacks, counter height areas, seating areas and even passages. Each box has a laminated central divider and is accessible from both sides.
Milder Office’s design-for-production approach maximized efficiencies and ensured ease of installation. Milder Office produced the components in upstate New York, and assembled in New York city as a means of lowering shipping and delivery costs for the project.
Close up of box showing the laminate center divider. We can provide the laminate color of your choice.
Double sides high-back bench for cafes, cafeterias and restaurants. The bench booth offers privacy in public spaces. Shown here with a 24 mm table top. Available in pre-finished birch or the laminate color of your choice.
HMA2’s design for the P.S. 216 Arturo Toscanini (K216) Library renovation features staggered boxes as bookshelves to create an open feel and clear sight lines across the library. Milder Office provided consulting and production engineering for the design, and was the fabricator on the job.
Milder Office has produced and installed several New York Public School libraries for the New York School System and the Robinhood Foundation as part of the L!brary Initiative.
Milder Office worked closely with Brooklyn Industries to create store fixtures that offered maximum flexibility for the company’s range of products. Adjustable shelves can be swapped for pegs, which can be swapped for hanging rails, offering store managers varied display for BKI’s clothing, bags and accessories. Shop displays are changed from month to month, season to season.
The system was installed in seven stores in NYC, as well as in Illinois and Oregon, using different plywood finishes including HP laminate.
T-Shirts are displayed through birch plywood frame and be easily changed.
Milder T-shirt Display System uses a prefinished birch frame to display the T-shirt design. The frame panel is attached with a hinge that, when lifted, reveals a storage cubby. Additional open storage available below.
Tables with lockable casters allow for a flexible floor plan.
