ALCOVE is an innovative office product category, it has the proportion of an armchair but it is designed for long-term office or home work. It has layered back modularity in order to provide various degrees of comfort and privacy.
ALCOVE is a seating system conceived to support work in a ‘desk-less’ environment. The transformation of work environments, after the disruption of the digitization of work and the impact of the COVID pandemic, requires innovative concepts of furniture. Starting from analyzing patterns of individual and collaborative work, ALCOVE is designed to provide a private ‘cocoon’ of space, and updated in its ergonomic support: it is larger, more private and more comfortable than a conventional desk chair, less focused on supporting the body in one ‘optimal’ position, but allowing freedom of posture and more movement. It is conceived for working without a desk, either individually – in an office or at home – or in a collaborative environment. It has variations of back support, to provide various degrees of comfort – more or less soft – and various degrees of privacy – more or less enclosed. Some variations are also optimized for waiting spaces, like hospital or hotel waiting areas.