These new solutions for hospitals, assisted living facilities, and other spaces for treatment and recovery, prove that aesthetics do not need to suffer when high-performance is required.
Products: Healthcare
Wellness Collection
Wolf-Gordon's Wellness Collection of wallcoverings, upholstery, and privacy-curtain textiles is made of durable materials, including polyester, vinyl, and polypropylene, to meet the demands of health-care and assisted-living markets. Depending on the design, the textiles can withstand 85,000 to 500,000 double rubs; some are also bleach-cleanable and offer antimicrobial protection. Shown here is the leaf-inspired Flourish Type II vinyl wallcovering and the Dawn privacy-curtain textile, a serene horizontal stripe in 100% polyester.
Merge Sofa
This convertible patient-room sofa from Herman Miller Healthcare and Nemschoff offers multiple configurations for family and visitors to sleep, work, eat, and socialize more comfortably. Merge features an integrated table, recliner, 75”-wide sleep surface, and multiple storage options. Safety features include a front-accessible, rear-locking caster system and an antimicrobial sleep surface with removable covers. Custom options include dovetail storage drawers, footrests, and astationary or adjustable-height center table.
Ruth Adler Schnee Fabrics
Considered one of the pioneers of modern textile design, Ruth Adler Schnee worked closely with KnollTextiles creative director Dorothy Cosonas to translate some of her earlier printed patterns into woven fabrics for use as privacy curtains and drapery fabrics for health-care facilities. The collection includes the landscape-inspired Strata, which started as a printed burlap wallpaper in 1949, and Fission Chips, a pattern based on a geometric 1950s design. Each 72”-wide fabric comes in six colorways and is Greenguard-certified.
CuVerro Wall Plates & Switches
Cooper Wiring offers the industry's first line of switches and wall plates made with EPA-registered CuVerro antimicrobial copper surfaces. The line is intended to help address health-care-associated infections (HAIs), which patients acquire during the course of receiving care for other conditions. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately one out of every 20 hospitalized patients will contract an HAI. Lab tests show that when cleaned regularly, CuVerro surfaces deliver ongoing antibacterial protection, effectively killing more than 99.9% of bacteria within two hours.
Ulna Swing-Arm Sconce
In honor of the 85th anniversary of designer Walter Von Nessen's first “folding” wall sconce, his namesake company has introduced a new foldable, rotatable, and dimmable LED direct/indirect contemporary-design swing-arm sconce. Called Ulna, the tubular-shaped sconce provides aimable, softly diffused ambient, accent, and reading light for corporate, health-care, assisted-living, or residential interiors.
Lightline Wall System
The first unitized, seamless butt-glazed wall solution on the market, Lightline is a preassembled, movable glass system from KI that provides the look of a storefront, yet has flexible elements that can adapt to health-care changes quickly and efficiently. While not intended as a headwall/footwall product for patient rooms, Lightline provides natural daylighting throughout a variety of health-care environments, including spaces in acute-care, ambulatory-care, and medical-office buildings.
