The Decade Chair from Bludot is available now! Our team at Shea+Latone / Union Design was happy to be part of the design process for this new chair. Before investing in tooling this mono-block plastic chair, Bludot designers relied on our engineering knowledge and FEA analysis to validate its strength. The analysis of this chair
The Essa Chair by Teknion is here! We are so happy to see all of our hard engineering work come to life in this new task chair designed by Pearson Lloyd and masterfully developed by our team at Shea+Latone / Union Design. Essa Chair is designed to meet the ongoing trend of softening the office
We are hiring a mechanical engineer! Shea+Latone is a product design and development firm that works with some of the most prestigious designers and innovative companies in the world. Shea+Latone provides services encompassing the entire design development process, including industrial design, mechanical engineering, prototyping, testing, manufacturability analysis, and more. We offer any part of the
We are excited to announce that our friends at Allseating have won a Good Design Award for Zinc, a multipurpose stacking chair designed by Carl Gustav Magnusson. Our team worked tirelessly to develop and engineer a chair that upheld Carl's design intent while passing all necessary regulatory tests. The chairs signature cufflink detail is not
We are proud to announce that UNION is a winner of this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD, a world-renowned design prize. WALS portable office partitions manufactured by PS Furniture, won in the office category. Each year, the world’s oldest independent design organization, Hannover-based iF International Forum Design GmbH, organizes the iF DESIGN AWARD. WALS won over
As a preview into what to see at the upcoming 2018 Neocon show, MMQB has featured the new Allseating Zinc chair. Developed in close collaboration with designer Carl Magnusson, we engineered a chair that preserves the thin design aesthetic while being robust enough to pass BIFMA testing. The chair consists of a kit of parts
Check out the Allseating Lyss Chair featured in the Interior Design Magazine's Fall Market Tabloid. We worked hand in hand with designer Carl Magnusson and Allseating to develop a system of bases that utilize one seat shell to create a variety of use scenarios. The thin plastic shell was engineered to have the ability to
We are hiring a mechanical engineer! Shea+Latone is a product design and development firm that works with some of the most prestigious designers and innovative companies in the world. Our focus has traditionally been in contract furniture, but we use that experience and expertise to broaden into other similar industries as well. Shea+Latone provides services encompassing the entire design development
Shea+Latone is proud to announce that the latest Humanscale® seating design from the late Niels Diffrient debuted at Neocon and received a Silver level Best of Neocon award. Our long standing relationship with both Humanscale and Niels Diffrient Design allowed us to aid in the design, prototyping, engineering development, BIFMA testing, and pre-production of the
Shea+Latone expands its product & BIFMA testing capabilities. On site product testing is a crucial part of what Shea+Latone provides during any new product's development cycle. Over the past few years our testing needs have grown, and with that so has our lab. We’ve moved from having one reconfigurable test platform onto having a full
