7.31.14 | Wayland, NY | Savor, a new addition to Gunlocke’s wood guest seating portfolio, focuses on clean lines and refined details and delivers on a strong sustainability promise, featuring a unique bio-material in its seat-back construction. Savor received a coveted Best of NeoCon Editor’s Choice award at NeoCon, North America’s largest design exposition and conference for commercial interiors, held June 9-11 in Chicago.
 
Using the influencing aesthetic of Gunlocke’s Credentials casegoods line, introduced at NeoCon in 2013, designer Alyssa Coletti of Nonfiction Creative, LLC has unveiled a chair that ultimately is at home in any office setting, alongside a variety of desking solutions.
 
“Credentials’ minimalist lines and flat planes provided me with a starting point for my initial sketches. From there, I moved into sculpting a chair based on Credential’s overall design, which ultimately became Savor,” Coletti explains. “While Savor’s design is based on a prototypical guest chair, it isn’t typical. Its elements have been shaped to unify the wood and upholstery into a continuous form.”
 
Savor’s finely tailored styling features faceted elements of transitioning proportions throughout its framework. Its back-post design, which consists of a beveled, dually tapering form, effortlessly melds the wood  elements with the upholstered back, acting as an aesthetic cornerstone that carries the surface design through all of the exposed-wood elements. The upholstered back transitions from a curved surface that cradles the user’s back into a forward-turning curve that sweeps under the seat.
 
“I played with the nuances of the surfaces and worked to elevate those,” Coletti explains. “I wanted them to catch the light differently and work them so something interesting happens to them. Also, I wanted this chair to be complementary to other office furniture but also still stand out in the room.”
 
Savor is available in ash, maple or walnut in any of Gunlocke’s standard wood finishes and upholstery options. An optional wood or upholstered top rail also is available.
 
Designed with the environment and end-of-life in mind, Savor is durable, repairable and upgradeable, featuring 86 percent renewable content thanks to its innovative myco-board seat back (9.31 percent), wood components (71.38 percent) and textiles, if a natural material, such as leather, is specified (6.21 percent). Savor is the first chair in the world to use a new biomaterial that is made using a natural organism rather than a chemical adhesive.
 
The myco-board technology used in the seat back is created from agricultural byproducts, such as corn stalks, which are glued together with mycelium – the analogous roots of mushrooms. Mycelium acts as a natural, self-assembling resin, eliminating the need for chemical glues or resins the seatback board. This natural, compostable, bio-degradable material has been certified under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) bio-preferred program. Myco-board materials are Cradle to Cradle® Gold Certified, the highest level of certification achieved to date by any product or material.
 
The inclusion of this myco material in Savor’s construction contributes to the LEED MR Credit 6, with its 9.31 percent rapidly renewable content. Additionally, Savor offers these other LEED® 2009 contributions:
• LEED MR Credit 2 – Has recyclable stretch wrap and corrugated packaging, which contains 60 percent post-consumer recycled content.
• LEED MR Credit 4 – Offers 0.17 percent recycled content, which can be increased by 6 percent with recycled upholstery options.
• LEED MR Credit 5 – Manufactured in Wayland, New York.
• LEED MR Credit 7 – Features 71 percent, new FSC-certified wood as a standard offering, for a small upcharge.
• LEED IEQ Credit 4.5 – Certified SCS Indoor Advantage™ Gold.
• LEED Pilot Credit 80 – Features level® 2-certified products, which contributed to 50 percent of total product cost.
 
Thanks to its SCS Indoor Advantage Gold Certification and level® 2 certified products, Savor also provides a LEED V4 EQ credit for low emitting materials and Pilot Credit 80, respectively. Its FSC-certified products, bio-based materials and recycled content also contribute to the MR Credit: Building product disclosure and optimizations: Sourcing of raw materials (Option 2).
 
Gunlocke introduced Savor to the contract design industry at NeoCon 2014. For more information about Savor or Gunlocke, contact 1-800-828-6300 or visit www.gunlocke.com.

About Gunlocke

The Gunlocke Company is an industry leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of wood contract furniture: casegoods, seating and tables. As it focuses on developing fresh, responsive new solutions for the workplace, the company carries forward a tradition of quality craftsmanship, technical expertise and conscientious customer service.  The Gunlocke name is synonymous with design integrity, manufacturing excellence and enduring value. Eight U.S. presidents and leading decision makers in a range of industries have made the company’s products their choice. 
 
Gunlocke has a growing North American presence, with showrooms located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, San Francisco, Santa Monica, California, and Washington, D.C., as well as at its headquarters in Wayland, New York.