Lamm ST12-13 university and classroom furniture in a tiered lecture hall

ST12, half of the ST12-13 system, took Best of Competition in New Orleans in 2015

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In 2015, at the Educational Spaces Innovation Awards in New Orleans, the ST12 study bench system by Lamm was named Best of Competition. It is an American honor for an Italian product designed by Orlandini Design, and it went to the ST12-13 version fitted with the HL³ seat.

The catalog records the award, not the jury's reasoning, so the honest way to read it is to look at what the system is. A single central structure in tubular steel carries a fixed writing table, 15.7 in front to back, plus two movable seats on pivoting die-cast aluminum arms, which places it among university and classroom furniture built for the long haul. The seats swivel through 360° with a calibrated automatic return, and Lamm notes that this lets students in different rows work at the same table, the same job usually given to collaborative furniture.

The HL³ seat has a record of its own. Lucci and Orlandini's design received Good Design 2010 from the Chicago Athenaeum and a Silver Award at The Best of NeoCon 2010, in the multi-purpose seats category. The other version, ST13, pairs the same bench with the New Modulamm seat. Benches go in pairs of seats, run straight or on a curve, and sit on level floors, ramped floors or risers; facing benches can also form an island used from both sides.

For a US campus that weighs design recognition when it selects furniture, that is a record earned on American ground twice over: once by the system, once by its seat.

Technical information based on data declared by the manufacturer.

Collection: ST12-13 (ST12 and ST13 versions)
Manufacturer: Lamm — Lamm S.r.l., Italy
Design: Orlandini Design; HL³ seat by Lucci and Orlandini
What it is: single-structure bench system for university lecture halls and conference rooms: a bench with a fixed writing table and two movable seats on pivoting arms; combined in multiples of two, in straight or curved rows; installed on flat or sloped floors or on steps; can also be arranged as an island with seats on both sides
ST12 — seat: HL³; seat and back in oak or beech plywood, or fully or partially upholstered
ST13 — seat: New Modulamm; seat and back joined by a tubular steel connector, tubular steel sides 1 in (25 mm) in diameter; pressed and curved plywood in various woods, oak among them, or upholstered
ST12 — fabrics: ten collections, the six shared with ST13 (Inca, King, Trevi, Maya, Silvertex, Extrema Au) plus Ultra, Luna CS, Revive 1 and Remix 2
ST13 — fabrics: six collections, all shared with ST12
Padding: CertiPUR® certified
Movements: seat support arm with automatic spring-return rotation, 64° stroke; swivel seats with a 360° rotation device and calibrated automatic return
Structure: central load-bearing structure in tubular steel, with a steel sheet floor anchor plate
Seat support arms: painted die-cast aluminum
Finish of structure and arms: scratch-resistant, anti-corrosion epoxy-polyester powder coat in semi-matt black RAL 9005, semi-matt silver or embossed graphite; structure and arms can have different finishes
Writing table: HPL double-laminate particleboard, 1.06 in (27 mm) thick, 15.7 in deep, matching ABS edges
Table finishes: black, white, tele-gray, graphite, eucalyptus, oak, gray oak, beech
Wood components: low formaldehyde emission
Shared dimensions (seat at rest): writing table 29.5 in from the floor · seat 17.3 in from the floor · front panel 8.3 in high · two-seat bench 47.2 × 15.7 in · depth with the seat turned, in plan, 38.6 in · curved rows with a minimum radius of 315 in
ST12 — dimensions: bench plus seat depth 23.6 in · center distance between the two seats of a bench 27 in · row pitch 37.4 in · straight row of six seats 155.5 in
ST13 — dimensions: 26 in overall depth of each unit with its seat · 26.8 in between the centers of its two places · rows spaced 39.4 in apart · 159.4 in for six places in line
Accessories: painted extruded aluminum front panel, 8.3 in high, in the same three paints as the structure and arms · floor-length front panel in the eight table finishes · power with sockets accessible on the table, or applied to the central load-bearing structure (socket on request) · inter-row bar for installations not fastened to the floor
Testing: tested according to European standards (no standard numbers are given)
Awards: ST12 — Best of Competition, Educational Spaces Innovation Awards 2015, New Orleans; HL³ seat — Good Design 2010 and Silver Award, The Best of NeoCon 2010

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When it is the right choice

  • Halls that go from a lecture to team exercises within the same class period.
  • A brief that keeps the table fixed and lets the seat turn.
  • Wood or padded shells, picked room by room, on either HL³ or New Modulamm.

When another solution fits better

  • When a hall must fit every possible seat on one unbroken run of folding seats, choose Lamm's E5000, with spacing from 20 in.

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FAQ

What is the ST12-13 writing table made of?

HPL double-laminate particleboard, 1.06 in thick and 15.7 in from front to back, edged in ABS of the same color. It comes in eight finishes: black, white, tele-gray, graphite, eucalyptus, oak, gray oak and beech. Lamm specifies its wood components as low formaldehyde emission.

Does ST12-13 need a tiered floor?

No. According to Lamm, it goes on flat floors, on sloped floors and on steps alike. Where the rows are not anchored to the floor, an inter-row bar is available as an accessory for that kind of installation.

What brings a swiveled seat back into place?

Each seat turns on a 360° rotation device with a calibrated automatic return, so it comes back without being pushed. The arm that carries it has its own movement: a rotation with automatic spring return over a 64° stroke.

How high are the writing table and the seat?

Writing-table height is 29.5 in on both versions, and seat height is 17.3 in with the seat at rest. The front panel, an accessory in extruded aluminum, is 8.3 in high.

How much floor depth does each row take?

With ST12 the bench plus seat needs 23.6 in front to back and the rows are pitched at 37.4 in. With ST13 the figures are 26 in and 39.4 in. That difference, set by the seat, is what changes the number of rows a hall can hold.

Turning an ST12-13 row into a group-work island

Lamm describes the 360° swivel as what lets people in different rows work at the same table. Here is how to set that up during a class.

Pick the rows that will team up

On ST12-13 the shared table is the fixed writing table between two rows. Start by deciding which pairs of rows will work together, so every group has one table in common.

Swivel the front row around

Each seat turns through 360°. Students in the first row of each pair rotate toward the row behind them and face the same writing table as their neighbors.

Use the fixed table as the work surface

The HPL writing table measures 15.7 in from front to back and does not fold, so it holds laptops, papers and drawings for the whole group while both rows work at it.

Plan power where groups will gather

If groups need to charge devices, the electrification system with sockets accessible on the table is the one to specify for those rows; sockets are an option you request.

Let the room reset at the end

When students stand up, the calibrated return brings each seat back and the support arm returns by spring after its 64° stroke. The rows are ready for a lecture again.