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Rom and Lupa from Lentala, as seen at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023
Designer | 23.02.2023

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023: Say Hej! to… Rom and Lupa from Lentala

Amsterdam based manufacturer Lentala, a.k.a. Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Boris Lancelot, is, if one so will, a commercial expression of a research and experimentation begun in Eindhoven in context of Lancelot's 2018 graduation thesis Techno Motion, and continued post-Eindhoven in the project Active Classroom undertaken by Lancelot in conjunction with movement science researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and UMCG, University of Groningen. Research and experimentation which,

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The height adjustable desk Hack by Konstantin Grcic for Vitra.
Office Furniture | 29.05.2016

smow blog compact: To work sitting or standing, that is, still, the question….

As we noted in a previous post, spending long periods sitting can result in shorter telomeres and thus a greater susceptibility to health problems such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A new study by researchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health would appear to indicate that in addition to health benefits, regularly standing while working in an office environment can also increase productivity. Based on data collected over a period of six months from

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