Best of NeoCon® 2011 Competition Winners 

The Tables: Training & Work Category took the top prize as the Best of Competition with MOTUS (shown right), manufactured by HALCON and shown in Showroom 1044. Last year, ON® Ergonomic Task Chair by Wilkhahn took the Best of Competition.

Innovation Awards were bestowed to:
Steve’s Station™ by Anthro Corporation
Strategy by Evans Consoles
Balance Beam by io Lighting
Karndean Loose Lay by Karndean International
On the Edge by Shaw Contract Group
SEEYOND™ Architectural Solutions by Seeyond Architectural Solutions

Editor’s Choice Awards were bestowed to:
Mind-Share and Rise from the Gather Collection by Allsteel
HIDA Series Furniture by ITOKI Design
Change Modular Collection by Tandus Flooring
Illias Collection by Instyle: Molecular, Braille & Blink by Unika Vaev

View all the Best of NeoCon® 2011 winning product slideshows, divided by product categories:

* Best of NeoCon® 2011 Coverings, Carpet/Flooring, Textiles Categories Winners
* Best of NeoCon® 2011 Seating Categories Winners
* Best of NeoCon® 2011 Furniture for Conference and Office Categories Winners
* Best of NeoCon® 2011 Lighting, Technology, and Accessories Categories Winners
* Best of NeoCon® Healthcare Categories Winners


Or, visit contract-network.com to view all current and past Best of NeoCon® winners.

Best of NeoCon® People’s Choice Award

Following more than two weeks of online voting, the second consecutive Best of NeoCon® People’s Choice Award results are in. The online competition, which is the result of a partnership between Contract magazine and Designer Pages, is the digital extension of the annual Best of NeoCon® Awards competition, which is held by Contract at NeoCon® to recognize excellence and innovation in product design.

The program, which launched with the 2010 Best of NeoCon® Awards, invited neocon.com and contractdesign.com visitors to vote from June 1 through June 17 for their favorite Best of NeoCon® product entries in a select number of categories—Architectural Products; Case Goods; Seating: Ergonomic Desk/Task; Seating: Sofas and Lounge; and Tables: Occasional. One Gold Award and one Silver Award are bestowed in each category, along with a third and fourth place winner. Approximately 80,000 votes were cast.

>>View the winning products

Architectural Products:
Gold: Ripple Wall by 3form
Silver: ReMix by 3form
Third Place: Ellisse by Joel Berman Glass Studios
Fourth Place: Timber by 3form

Case Goods:
Gold:  Involve by Allsteel
Silver: Hush by OSI Furniture LLC
Third Place: Voi Laminate Desking by The HON Company
Fourth Place: Staks Crossover Casegoods by OFS

Seating: Ergonomic Desk/Task
Gold: SwingSeat by BioFit Engineered Products
Silver: Insight by Allermuir
Third Place: AL3 Synchro-Tilt Executive Task Chair by Teknion
Fourth Place: Ceres by The HON Company

Seating: Sofas & Lounge
Gold: Nub by Andreu World America
Silver: Gather Collection by Allsteel
Third Place: Soft Chair Series by Davis Furniture Industries
Fourth Place: Kontour Lounge Series by Davis Furniture Industries

Tables: Occasional
Gold: HiFi Occasional Table by Leland International
Silver: Auto by Cabot Wrenn
Third Place: Loophole™ Occasional Table by Geiger International
Fourth Place:  Nest Table Series by HBF

The Best of NeoCon® People’s Choice voting tool, powered by productwars.com, functions as an interactive product war format, poising two same-category products against each other to allow designers to choose which of the pair ranks as their favorite. Both NeoCon® attendees and non-attendee designers were able to vote, as well as the general online public. The products are ranked by number of product wars won, not by number of votes.