Antenna Workspaces^®

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With a planning scheme for both individual and common areas, Antenna Workspaces is a new approach to workplace design that supports the freedom and mobility people seek in today’s office. Across industries, organizations are transitioning to more adaptable furniture and more integrated layouts in order to accommodate the diversity of work modes in the workplace.

Antenna Workspaces begins with a simple, inherently collaborative structure — the table. Building with this basic unit, focus areas and group environments are created by linking desks, adding partitioning elements, and integrating storage. Throughout, the table remains at the heart of the design, giving every Antenna environment — whether private or open plan — a creative, collaborative essence.

Pairing standards of functional simplicity and a pure, honest approach to materials has resulted in a state-of-the-art workplace experience that is as collaborative and dynamic as it is logical and efficient.

Antenna Workspaces open plan office system with Generation by Knoll office chair

Table & Desk

Antenna Workspaces begins with a simple, inherently collaborative structure — the table, with most components connecting to the table’s unique leg and rail system. The table is transformed into a desk with the addition of personal storage and power components and becomes a workstation by adding partitions and freestanding storage.

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Linked Desks

Antenna Workspaces desks link to define efficient shared work areas. The table is transformed into a desk with the addition of suspended or floorstanding storage, screens or power components. Desks can be linked side-to-side, and perpendicular return surfaces can be attached at any point to form L-shape or U-shape arrangements. Extended rails support storage cabinets above or below the desk top. Antenna Workspaces storage elements, including freestanding cabinets, suggest boundaries without blocking visual access.

Big Table

Linked back-to-back and sharing legs, Antenna Workspaces tables come together to form the big table — an adaptable collaborative work setting for open plan environments, touch-down spaces and meeting areas. The compact center beam supports screens, cantilever shelves, storage cabinets, power components and monitor arms, transforming a meeting table into a cluster of individual work stations. Return surfaces can be attached at any point, and extended rails support extension tops or storage cabinets.

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Antenna Workspaces racetrack table and Bertoia side chairs

With Template

The Template storage system integrates seamlessly with Antenna Workspaces to expand the possibilities for both storage and space planning. Because of its compact depth and dual-sided access, Template creates the ideal storage spine, while its architectural presence makes it perfect for defining the boundaries of larger work areas.

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Private Office

Antenna Workspaces tables, desks and storage elements combine to create highly effective shared or focused work areas in private offices. Wall-mounted and free standing storage options from the Antenna portfolio, as well as Template “workwalls”, provide virtually endless opportunity for design and performance.

Product story

Whether in an office, at home or in a coffee shop, work today requires shifting from one task and type of work to another – from focused projects to shared and team activities. The distinct modes of work should be supported by a set of nimble elements that simplify transitions from individual to group work.

With this in mind, the Antenna design brief called for a simple table structure that could be transformed to create a full range of work settings, from private office and individual workstations to meeting room tables and touch-down spaces, supporting the multiple modes of work occurring in the workplace:

FOCUS: Individually-oriented work that requires concentration and reduced interruptions.
SHARE: Collaboration that occurs in individual or group spaces and centers on the casual exchange of ideas with a small number of colleagues.
TEAM: Group efforts applied to specific work goals, which may be supported in primary workspaces or in formal and informal meeting spaces.

Recognizing the relevance of their expertise, we collaborated with Antenna Design, a progressive New York City firm dedicated to making the experience of technology and environments more meaningful. In response to our brief, Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, the principals of Antenna Design, arrived at a simple, modular leg and tabletop structure. From there they developed components, connections and transitions that maximize usability and flexibility with a minimum of parts. The result is the ingeniously simple, incredibly versatile Antenna Workspaces.

Antenna Design

Antenna Design was founded in 1997 by Masamichi Udagawa, a Cranbrook Academy graduate, and Sigi Moeslinger, who holds degrees from NYU and Art Center College of Design. Antenna's people-centered design approach aims to make the experience of objects and environments more meaningful and exciting. Among Antenna’s best known projects are the design of New York City Subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks and displays for Bloomberg.

Antenna has been recognized with several prestigious design awards, including the National Design Award in Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Both Udagawa and Moeslinger are senior critics in graphic design at the Yale University School of Art.

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A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO THE ENTIRE OFFICE. Antenna serves the growing demand for more flexible, inclusive workspaces that can support multiple work modes simultaneously.
A COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO WORKSPACE PLANNING. Antenna Workspaces includes six distinct approaches to planning workplaces, serving Focused, Shared and Team work modes. Integrated storage elements suggest boundaries without blocking visual access.
PROGRESSIVE DESIGN. Antenna’s neutral grace is a frank expression of function, and its refreshing lack of pretense makes it stand out as well as fit in.