This Clerkenwell Design Week, we launched our fresh new colour palette and introduced three new workplace collections: Climb, PLC Tube and Panda System.
Designed with a lifecycle thinking approach, our new collections use material intelligence and design understanding to offer low impact furniture for a better future.
The Climb shelving system and PLC Tube chair follow design for disassembly principles while the Panda System makes use of natural, renewable, low impact materials.
Tuesday night we hosted the 'Opening Toast' to welcome our clients into the Modus showroom for the Opening night of Clerkenwell Design Week. English sparkling wine from Rathfinny Estate, and craft brews from Toast Brewing (both B Corp drinks companies) were perfectly complemented by Cheese Toasties from Archie's Toastie Shop.
It was a celebration of sustainable furniture manufacturing, supported by fellow B Corps!
BY JONES + PARTNERS
Elevate and form space with Climb, by Jones & Partners. Climb is a workplace shelving system defined by its simplicity and adaptability to create zoning for different workplace typologies.
Designed with a minimal kit of five essential components, create space divisions and functional storage solutions, evolving to your vision.
With light weight integrated accessories, Climb can be adapted within its working environment without the need for tools – switch a whiteboard to a pinboard, add extra bookends and trays, or move coat hooks in a matter of seconds.
Climb's inherent flexibility and sustainable design features birch ply, chipboard with oak veneer and steel. The shelves have been cleverly designed to make use of the maximum yield of standard 8 x 4 chipboard sheets to optimise material use for a responsible footprint. Furthermore, Climb is designed for disassembly, allowing easy repair, replacement of parts, and end of life recycling.
Build up from the simple starter pack and explore the endless possibilities created with the Climb shelving system.
BY PEARSON LLOYD
PLC Tube extends the celebrated PLC Chair range by design studio Peason Lloyd.
Sharing the original seat and backrest design, with minor tweaks to its ergonomic form, the PLC Tube is newly defined by its refined industrial appeal, as a steel tubular framed chair.
Combining oak veneer over pressed ply with steel, the PLC Tube offers a contemporary hospitality feel to the modern workspace while retaining the classic contours of the original design. Available in counter, bar, side chair, and lounge variations, PLC Tube offers functional and aesthetic versatility.
Designed for disassembly, the range can be deconstructed into mono-materials using everyday tools, whilst offering easy refurbishment and replacement of parts, and enabling re-use over multiple lifecycles. PLC Tube is designed with removable covers as standard and to minimise the use of plastic, the chairs can be specified with a non-foam seat and backrest of coconut fibre, latex and felted wool.
BY MONICA FÖRSTER
Monica Förster's Panda System goes beyond ordinary seating. Its softly sculpted forms and modular versatility empower users to craft dynamic workspaces that adapt to every need. From collaborative hubs to private retreats, Panda offers flexibility by seamlessly incorporating chaise longues, privacy screens, and integrated tables for breakout lounge settings, or take it a step further by creating configurations with working height surfaces for individual drop in focus spaces or meeting booths.
Embrace healthy and natural materials with the foam-free option, made with coconut fibre and needled wool, over a flexible steel spring support. All configurations of Panda are constructed with a sustainably sourced Spruce plywood, a faster growing species than the more commonly used Beech plywood. Spruce is also lighter, making it less carbon hungry in all its transportation phases and the plywood used contains 50% bio-binder, resulting in less than half the embodied carbon of typical hardwood ply, further reducing embodied impacts.
Designed for breakout and lounge spaces, atriums and receptions, Panda System is a versatile and classic design of quality built to last.
THE ROLE OF MATERIALS AND WHY THEY MATTER
To mark the launch of the PLC Tube, and extension to Pearson Lloyd’s celebrated PLC chair family, the designers and Modus’ Development Director formed a panel hosted by Grant Gibson. The panel discussed how intelligent materials, design for disassembly, the circular economy and a reinvestment into successful, existing product lines play a key role in shaping the designs of the future.
If you missed out on the talk, we will shortly be publishing the full Q&A on the Modus news page for all to read. Stay tuned.
Clerkenwell Design Week is always a highlight in our calendar, and this year was no exception. Your enthusiasm and engagement with our new collections and launches made it a success.
Thank you all for coming to see us during the three days! We're already looking forward to seeing you at next year's edition of Clerkenwell Design Week 2026!
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