Michiel van der Kley's Globus Workstation
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 05.20.08
Patrick McGoohan would have put these everywhere in the Village, the remarkable Globus workstation that folds into a perfect orb. "The Globus will provide an inspiring working environment for today’s more flexible employee. At home and at the office." In fact it doesn't take up much less space folded up than it does when open, but Number Two would have been so much more effective had he had an actual work surface instead of just a chair.
We could use our usual "small spaces are efficient " argument about why this is on TreeHugger, but it really isn't. Perhaps it is just that everyone gathered around and smiled when Michiel demonstrated it for us, it is that kind of fun thing. Video after the jump.
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i want to know if the chair is comfy, 'cause it really looks like it is.
maybe it doesn't really save space, but it looks SO cool, i'd love to have several in different finishes for my kids' rooms. how could they not want to do homework in such a fun workspace!
i wonder when/if these will be actually available and how much they will cost. . .
the video is no longer available??!?
Well it's definitely not stackable. Even if you could roll it around to another space, you can't stack them on top of each other well, considering they're spheres.
And that's not a lot of desk room.
I loved it. Something nobody seems to think about is dust and cleaning of a workstation. If I had this at home I could set my laptop on the chair, close it, and it would be clean and ready to use when I returned. Living in a breezy tropical home, dirt and dust on and in computing gear is a constant battle, not to mention the gecko who needs to be gently evicted from the printer every time I want to use it!
The designer appears to be promoting this for the business workplace (as did the original designer of the office cubicle system). I didn't think that the office cubicle could be made any worse, but this guy has done so. I dare say he doesn't spend workday after workday in a cubicle environment. Thumbs down! From someone who once had an office, before "improvement" changed out the offices for cubicles.