Since it was founded in 1983, furniture maker Humanscale has garnered numerous design awards and media accolades for its inventive approach to creating truly simple, yet high performing, chairs, ...

Humanscale is the first company to ever obtain full Living Product Challenge Certification offered by the International Living Future Institute, which they achieved for not only one, but two products.

The Horizon represents the first utilization of Thin Film Technology in a task light. Several transparent layers of microscopically thin polycarbonate and optical film are surrounded by high-intensity ...

$15,000 is a lot to spend on a lounge chair – but Humanscale’s Diffrient Lounge is, well, different. Inspired by the work-from-home revolution, jump-started by the global COVID pandemic, the Diffrient ...

“It’s my intent to make design a more consequential endeavor, not a decorative endeavor.” Thus spoke the industrial designer Niels Diffrient in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. Among ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humanscale is thrilled to introduce the Smart Ocean chair, an inventive adaption of the legendary Diffrient Smart chair that incorporates almost 2 lbs. of recycled fishing ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Niels Diffrient’s Freedom chair. Launched by Humanscale, the Freedom chair revolutionized the seating industry as the first ever ...

Diffrient was born in rural Mississippi in 1928 and grew up in Detroit. He attended Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University and then graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art where he ...