Last week, Steelcase was recognized for its contribution to 20th-century design with a prestigious award from New York's Brooklyn Museum of Art. At a ceremony held during Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, the office furniture manufacturer received the Modernism Design Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Steelcase has a design career that spans from the company's first patent for a metal wastebasket in 1914 to products like the sustainable Think chair, which has earned international industry recognition.

The award was accepted by Steelcase director of design James Ludwig. "Now we want to build upon our past and embrace a new modernism that is as much about designing the experience as it as about designing the 'thing,' " says Ludwig. "The new modernism, like the old, is about designing with clarity and sophisticated restraint, and it's about making things better—but in a more humanistic, sustainable way."

The nominating committee was composed of current and former members of the Brooklyn museum staff, including Arnold Lehman, director, Brooklyn Museum; Christopher Wilk, department of furniture and woodwork, Victoria and Albert Museum and Dianne Pilgrim, director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.


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