Design Guild Mark Holder
Civic Tables
Name of Designer:
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin246
2021
Herman Miller
Civic is a comprehensive table program that can be used for a wide variety of settings found at work, in hospitality and at home. It includes tables for meetings, conferences, cafes, lounges, and collaborative workshops – each available in a broad choice of colours, materials, finishes and price points. For the first time, architects and designers can achieve from a single table program, congruency across all of these applications. Civic’s base design lends harmony, elegance and coherence to a space, allowing tables to be specified in numbers even when the environment maybe diverse and eclectic. Civic is available in a large range of sizes and shapes too, with surfaces that can be oval, soft-square, rectangular, round or trapezoidal. The aluminium and steel base structure is designed to accommodate surfaces not previously available from Herman Miller – Italian marble and soft-surface Linoleum. Polished or powder-coated aluminium feet can be fitted with levellers or agile castors.
Sam Hecht and Kim Colin created their office Industrial Facility to apply a thoughtful consideration of form with a unique understanding of contemporary life, creating beauty out of utility in the products, furniture and exhibitions they design. Hecht, from London, trained as an industrial designer, while Colin, from Los Angeles, trained as an architect. With a roster of pioneering clients, including Muji and Herman Miller, they are regarded for their philosophical and pragmatic approach. They are elected Royal Designers, an honour that recognises sustained design excellence and significant benefit to society. Works are held in most permanent collections, including the MoMA, NY; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the V&A, London.
