America Buys Its Office Furniture Elsewhere. From Italy, It Asks for One Room
Of the requests that reach us through lamercanti.us, 93.6% are about a desk, yet Italy supplies under 3% of the wood and metal office furni…
Design & Trends
Notes from the supply side of Italian design
Most design content is written by people who have never shipped a chair across an ocean. This magazine is written by the people who quote, crate and deliver Italian furniture for a living. Buying for your office? You will find guides that make you a sharper buyer: ergonomics that matter, acoustics, materials, what specifications actually mean. Specifying for clients? Trends and standards read through the eyes of the people who then have to supply them. Plus the stories behind Italian design, and the fairs — from Salone to NeoCon — reported by someone who walks them to work, not to browse.
America Buys Its Office Furniture Elsewhere. From Italy, It Asks for One Room
Of the requests that reach us through lamercanti.us, 93.6% are about a desk, yet Italy supplies under 3% of the wood and metal office furni…
Design & Trends
Office desk height: 29 inches, and the people it doesn't fit
Desks built to the European standard stand at 29.1 inches. There is no US federal rule on desk height, the ADA sets 28 to 34 inches for sur…
Ergonomics & Wellness
Workstations are a fleet: buy the lifecycle, not the sticker
The half-price workstation quote is in every project spreadsheet — and the catch is always the same: workstations are a fleet. Re-stacks as…
Workplace Productivity
The ten-year question your CFO will ask anyway
Over ten years, what does this office actually cost us? A page on our site answers that question the way it is asked: two real products fro…
Workplace Productivity
How many people really fit around a conference table
The eight-person conference table that never held eight: catalogs count seats, meetings happen in square feet and camera angles. The real p…
Workplace Productivity
Modern, design, contemporary or classic: the executive desk field guide
The corner office may have lost its walls, but it never lost its desk. Four families of Italian executive desks — modern, design, contempor…
Design & Trends
Ocean, customs, white glove: the road from an Italian workshop to your office
Curbside is not white glove, DDP is not a detail, and a crate built for an ocean crossing looks nothing like retail packaging. What actuall…
Projects & Case Studies
Why the MarineMax CEO never asked us for a discount
Brett McGill, CEO of MarineMax, furnished his Clearwater corner office from Italy and came back over six years and five orders. The real le…
Projects & Case Studies
Paying from the US: cards, ACH, wire — and now stablecoins
A growing number of American companies hold working capital in stablecoins — and when they furnish an office, every supplier wants a wire.…
Projects & Case Studies
Milan design week, worked like the trade: Salone and Fuorisalone
Eight time zones, three days on the ground — and most American visitors come home with a camera roll they could have downloaded. How to wor…
Trade Shows & Events
Web Summit 2025: 6 workplace signals every US office designer needs to act on — before 2026 makes them obvious
Six ROI-backed signals from Web Summit Lisbon that will reshape US offices in 2026 — from AI-driven cognitive load to hybrid attendance pat…
Trade Shows & Events