Ellie patient recliner for Kwalu

Best of Year award finalist, 2024
Interior Design Magazine

Designed to provide dignity to patients and destigmatize the experience, Ellie is composed of soft contours—nature’s flow and erosion lines—to relate with our human nature in a clinical environment that does not. Human-centered features like a negative inclined footrest and molded ergonomic armrests facilitate sit-to-stand for a more inclusive demographic, and Ellie’s the molded embracing back helps patients maintain upright healthy posture without visual lateral supports, providing both comfort and dignity.

Sleeper and seating collection for Steelcase Health

Best in Show Neocon 2017
Gold Award Healthcare Guest/Lounge Seating

Nightingale Innovation Award
Seating: Guest/Lounge

Grand Award Seating Category
Building Magazine

Surround Seating Collection is intuitive, welcoming, and cues behaviors that support care partners to productively engage with clinicians. It also supports multiple postures and orientations for rejuvenation.

Lounge chair and pouf
for Estel, Italy

Approaching its 25th year in continuous production in Italy, Clarke has established itself as a modern design classic.

Pier Luigi Frighetto first produced Clarke and worked closely with Von to ensure Clarke’s product refinement and excellent craftsmanship. Clarke’s US debut was at The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in NYC, where it was selected as the iconic product of the year’s fair and represented on ICFF banners, posters and marketing.

Lounge Equipment

International Design Yearbook 18
Curated by Karim Rashid

Tokyo Designer’s Week
Exhibition and limited production by Idée

Play Orbiter is designed to bring playful engagement, participation, and discovery into activities of daily living.

Philippe Starck discovered Play Orbiter and brought it to XO in France for production (but ultimately, was unable to achieve the foam production method). Play Orbiter was in limited production (fiberglass) with Idée, Japan, and the fiberglass version continues to be offered by our studio.

Stacking stool/side table
for Moroso, Italy

Playful and versatile, Oblio may be used as a seat or side table. The frame is made of hirek and the inset top is available upholstered or lacquered.

Office system for Steelcase

Product Innovation Award
Architectural Products Magazine

FrameOne benching system was designed to address the needs of various types of office workers including nomads, residents, project teams, and functional groups.

Features
- A light, refined aesthetic
- Floating tops
- Recessed legs
- Discreet cable distribution
- Worktools, lighting, power access, and privacy screens are all hosted on a convenient integrated rail

Vega vessel, ceramic

Produced by Play Orbit Studio

Tabletop and Wall Light
for Bart, Italy

Organic and colorful, Stone presents a different form, flowing lines, and light quality from every angle

Pendant light, porcelain
for Idée, Japan

Featured in Tokyo Designers Week Exhibition. Produced by Idée.

Redesign of modular office workstation system for Steelcase

Answer was Steelcase’s most successful system, and this redesign brings it into an era where workers are more mobile, more collaborative, more social, more connected to technology than ever before, and more design discerning. The product line was refined with outstanding fit and finishes, spatial elements were designed to balance both privacy and collaboration, and technology was seamlessly integrated within the products for easy user access.

Key Features
- Thin trim offers a clean, consistent design. Open base trim provides a lighter-scale aesthetic
 - Personal caddy provides quick access to the user’s work bag and mobile files
- Soft-edge worksurface eliminates pressure points on wrist and forearms
- Power and data access door integrates into the work surface
- Recessed frameless glass provides a clean design aesthetic and access to natural light

Cradle to Cradle: Silver (Panel system) / Silver (Storage)
ANSI/BIFMA level Certified: Level 1 / Level 2
SCS Indoor Air Advantage Certified: SCS IAQ Gold / SCS IAQ

LED lighting line (task, underbin) for Steelcase

More than a task light, Wave and Tide were designed to illuminate and define the personal work zone, from back of the work surface to the front, within a light, linear minimal form.

ANSI/BIFMA level Certified: Level 1

Key Features
- Uses just 14 watts of energy
- Lifespan of 50,000 hours
- Provides glare-free illumination over 12 square feet of work surface
- Continuous light array, eliminating multiple shadows
- Fingertip touch switch and continuous dimming control
- A light, linear aesthetic
- Mounts directly in the rail on c:scape, FrameOne, Elective Elements 6, and SOTO

Physician’s chair for Steelcase Health

ShareSurface is designed for Node to foster a better shared healthcare experience for clinicians, patients, and family members.

Key Features
- Seat height adjustability levels the playing field for clinicians and patients, supporting shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration and eye-to-eye contact, facilitating mutual teaching and learning.
- ShareSurface—with 180° side-to-side pivot and 360° surface rotation—provides superior sharing coverage in less space. 

Cradle to Cradle: Bronze* pending
ANSI/BIFMA level Certified: Level 2
SCS Indoor Air Advantage Certified: SCS IAQ Gold

Design thinking studio and program for University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Received The Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching Award in recognition of its expansive purpose, innovative thinking, and integrated, multi-disciplinary approach.

Recognized in Poets and Quants as “The Most Interesting New MBA Courses at B-Schools This Year.” [The +Impact Studio} “serves as a nexus between this intellectual capital, a wicked problem, and design.”

Waiting area seating and casegoods for Steelcase Health *

Best of NeoCon Award GoldNightingale Award

The Regard system was created to solve the challenges of today’s waiting places, where people sit isolated, disconnected, uncomfortable, and unproductive. Providing the right blend of solutions, Regard makes these moments more meaningful by offering greater comfort, connection, and privacy.

Designed to improve transition moments in healthcare waiting places, Regard also supports learning and working in libraries, cafés, and other in-between spaces.

* With Steelcase, Von developed Mark Kapka’s appealing design concept to be a highly-modular system; designed extensions including lighter reconfigurable elements, planters, and casegoods; integrated technology; designed and oversaw manufacturability of product detailing (incl. upholstery, CMF, powder-coated MDF)

Wicker lounge chair and pouf
for Idée, Japan

Featured in Tokyo exhibit, Wicker Funk (Marc Newson, Von Robinson, Karim Rashid).

Prior to forming Play Orbit, Von and Miho created interior architecture for:

Island/Def Jam records, NYC

Rocawear Inc, Headquarters, NYC

Universal Music Group, NYC

Residential lofts and apartments in Manhattan, NYC

Planning and spatial design for Steelcase office and healthcare settings, Global

A few of Von’s paintings and mixed media artwork. Like this one…or this one…