Winners in 2005 Lexus Design in Business Awards
Furnware, the Hastings based manufacturers of school chairs and Obo, the Palmerston North based company which dominates the world of field hockey equipment, are the major winners of the 2005 Lexus Design in Business Awards, organised by the Designers' Institute of New Zealand in association with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
Academic Paper
Bodyfurn Review Paper - World Ergonomics Congress Paper, Maastricht, Netherlands.
July 2006.
Furniture breakthrough confirmed
Less fidgeting, better concentration, more settled classroom! It's every teacher's dream.
 Conquering the fidget
factor - NZ Listener Article
April 30-May 6 2005 -
by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
A New Zealand company
has designed a new range of school furniture that kids might
actually be comfortable using.
A Hastings company works
flat out to meet the hot demand for its school chairs
Are you seated comfortably? Then we will begin
with Furnware, an established Hastings furniture manufacturer
which is taking the school market by storm.
What the students say about
BODYFURN®
After three months of BODYFURN® trials
at Napier Boys' High School 30 randomly selected students (of
the 160 who used them) were asked to describe in as few words
as possible their impressions of the new chair. Here are their
responses, unedited... Pupils get the right chair for the job
Research aims to stop thousands of Auckland
school children sitting for hours in wrong-sized chairs.
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