Steelcase Surface Materials

Plywood

Our plywood edge band application is intended for laminate surfaces, and is available in 1mm and 3mm options. The plywood aesthetic is used to make surfaces feel more informal and welcoming.

Inspiring Materials

Inspiring spaces are enhanced by inspiring materials.

Planked Veneer

Planked Veneer is intentionally designed to highlight the unique characteristics of wood.

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Textured Woodgrain Laminates

Textured Woodgrain Laminates add new depth to our laminate offering.

Natural Veneer

Neutral tones to enhance the beauty of a space.

MULTIPLE COMBINATIONS. SIMPLE TO USE.

Steelcase Surface Materials are designed for ease of coordination and use, abundance of choice and thoughtfulness to the environment. The offering consists of a wide selection of textiles, paints, laminates, veneer, glass, and more.

Three simple ideas help to create a materials palette that works.

First, our textiles are designed to work with our hard surfaces. Secondly, you can choose any architectural elements for a space, and our surfaces will coordinate with them. And, finally, our offering allows for you to create the environment you want, using the finishes you want.

At the end of the day, it’s all about you.

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Inspiring Materials

LUX COATINGS

Our new Lux Coatings provide a sophisticated alternative to standard paints. These rich finishes can be used to create an authentic vibe in the workplace. Colors range from high gloss black to matte gold, allowing for personalization.
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AUTHENTIC

Inspiring spaces are enhanced by inspiring materials. Complex patterns, varying textures and rich colors that make the work experience more human centered. Materials that perform, and hold up to the demands of the office environment.
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NEW BLACK

New Black is an elegant, sustainable collection of upholstery fabrics created through an innovative closed loop recycling process and designed for future recycling. A variety of patterns, texture and materiality brings interest to the black and white collection, which is made of 100% recycled material.
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ELMOSOFT LEATHER

Our premium leather offering provides extensive color selection. With colors ranging from soft neutrals to muted tones, this palette reflects the emphasis of the role of color in a space.
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INFORMAL

Diverse materials that can be used to create a thoughtfully-curated workplace where people want to work.
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ACCENT PAINTS

Accent paints allow you to add a touch of color and energy to painted surfaces in any given environment. The Steelcase Accent Paint collection has been enhanced to include a selection of softer, more humanizing colors.
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PLANKED VENEER

The use of natural materials makes the work experience more human centered, and creates a more authentic aesthetic. Our new Planked Veneer is intentionally designed to celebrate the unique characteristics of wood, and is available in Walnut and Oak finishes.

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EMOTIONAL

Materiality plays a powerful role in the process of creating emotional connections and can alter the feel of a space instantly.

WHY MATERIALS MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO YOUR WORKPLACE

Warm, humanistic and natural materials layer together creating inspiring places where people want to work.

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Plywood

Our plywood edge band application is intended for laminate surfaces, and is available in 1mm and 3mm options. The plywood aesthetic is used to make surfaces feel more informal and welcoming.
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Casper Cloaking Technology

Casper™ Cloaking Technology by Designtex is a transparent architectural film for glass walls that blacks out digital screens to outside view. Paired with an optional graphic film layer, it acts as a smart shield to ensure data privacy, while providing the peace of mind to collaborate freely in any working environment. This is a breakthrough that will unleash space design in the networked modern world. You have to see it to believe it. Watch this video to see Casper in action.
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Textured Woodgrain Laminates

These textured laminates offer a natural range of color choice for use across multiple environments. Offering a traditional woodgrain pattern with texture brings a new dimension to the table and extends choice and diversifies our laminate portfolio.
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Natural Veneer

These veneer stains are meant to enhance the beauty of spaces and coordinate with other materials in our offering by introducing a neutral tone to the environment.
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New Black

The five patterns are beautiful independently, but also create a powerful story together and with a wide range of other surface materials of different colors, textures and patterns. The boucle yarns bring a warm, comfortable, and humanizing aesthetic to the office environment.
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Planked Veneer

The use of natural materials makes the work experience more human centered, and creates a more authentic aesthetic. Planked Veneer is intentionally designed to highlight the unique characteristics of wood, and is available in Walnut and Oak. Each order of Planked Veneer will be one-of-a-kind. The natural variation of grain pattern, color, and texture is intentional and meant to be celebrated. This offering provides a creative wood choice that illustrates the individuality of the material.
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Lux Coatings

Our new Lux Coatings provide a sophisticated alternative to standard paints. These rich finishes can be used to create an authentic vibe in the workplace.
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Steelcase Surfaces

SURFACES MADE SIMPLE.
Innovative, sustainable materials designed by Steelcase.

Textiles
The textile selections are timeless, yet relevant and chosen according to specific aesthetic, technical and environmental criteria. All while coordinating effortlessly with the hard surfaces offering.

Hard Surfaces
By looking at color or hue, value from light to dark and range that a finish has to cross-over color families, our hard surfaces collection creates a common color sense that is shared across material types.

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Casper Cloaking Technology

Textured Woodgrain Laminates

Natural Veneer

These veneer stains are meant to enhance the beauty of spaces and coordinate with other materials in our offering by introducing a neutral tone to the environment.
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Lux Coatings

Planked Veneer

Designtex

Designtex is a celebration of imaginative minds and fact-based knowledge coming together to offer performance-based, environmental solutions. As part of Steelcase Select Surfaces, the Designtex collection includes an extensive range of choice through new product introductions, as well as fabrics previously recognized through the Designtex Graded-In program. This vast selection of upholstery and vertical surface fabrics provides a unique opportunity to achieve the highest level of design, sustainability and performance.
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Gabriel

A perfect pairing with Steelcase, Gabriel’s commitment to quality, social responsibility, and global design allows us to extend our design choice to customers around the world. Available throughout many different international markets, Gabriel textiles have a unique sense of style and beauty with a global presence. These textiles seamlessly merge environmental consciousness and elegance to become an expressive addition to any product.
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Kvadrat

The colorful yet simplistic designs of Kvadrat push the aesthetic, technological and artistic boundaries of textile design. Kvadrat’s colorful world of premium textiles are available from Steelcase globally. The company’s distinguished design heritage allows customers to choose from a wide selection of skillfully made finishes that appeal to an international audience.
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Pollack

The Pollack studio has extensive experience with weaving and fabric construction, developing textiles from the ground up. As a result, Pollack textiles are recognized for their versatile design, beauty and performance. The innovative materials and techniques used are sourced from specialized mills around the world to bring a signature look that naturally plays in both contemporary and traditional styles. The color sense is refined and nuanced, with depth and complexity.
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Accent Paint

Accent Paints allow customers to add trend-driven color to painted surfaces. These Price Group 3 pre-matched selections are available without the PerfectMatch registration fee. If one of the colors phases out of the program, customers can continue to specify these finishes without being charged a registration fee. It’s our intent to evolve this collection to ensure that fresh, new colors are always available.
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Signature Plastics

Signature Plastics allow customers to create space solutions that are consistent with their own brand. The plastic color choices are available for use on Node and Move for an additional upcharge. The 9 finish options were developed to match some of the most commonly used colors in university and corporate logos. Signature Plastics are pre-tested colors and can be ordered using standard finish codes.
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Composite Veneers

Composite Veneers offer engineered wood selections that create a consistent grain pattern and exhibit many desirable wood characteristics. Known for their color consistency, composite veneers feature a clear coat finish applied in the finishing process.
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Global Palette

CREATE A CONSISTENT AESTHETIC

The Global Palette allows companies to create a consistent aesthetic in workspaces around the world. All finishes are available to order on Steelcase products and are globally accepted.

The geographies represented in the Global Palette include the Americas – North, Central and South; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia Pacific. The offering includes a variety of material types: paint, decor and laminate, plastic, and textiles, knit, and mesh.
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Custom Surfaces

ABOUT CUSTOM SURFACES

Custom Surfaces provides a process that makes ordering your own materials, simple. Materials like fabric, vinyl, leather, laminate, paint and stain are supported through Custom Surfaces.

Sustainability

Recycled Content

Sustainable Processes

Natural Materials

Material Health

Certified Offerings

Recycled Content

Recycled Polyester

It’s available in 2 ways – post consumer and post industrial. Both are kind to the environment, as they reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill and save energy in the manufacturing process.

Post consumer polyester is made from waste material left over after consumer use. Things like soda and water bottles are ultimately extruded and woven into fabric.

Post industrial polyester is made from waste material that is left over from industrial processes and before use by the consumer.

Visit the Finish Library to find materials made using recycled polyester.

Sustainable Processes

Striving to Minimize Impact on the Environment

Steelcase is working with some of the world’s leading organizations to design what’s next in sustainable products and processes. It is partnerships like these that create true and lasting change.

Clarity™ Wood Finish Process
Steelcase’s Clarity™ water-borne UV clear coat provides exceptional durability, clarity and quality, all while considering environmental health.The water-borne Clarity process marks a major milestone in the transition we began back in 2001 to eliminate solvents from our wood furniture finishing processes. Since 2001, we’ve reduced Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions by 96%.

REDEEM + RETRIEVE
The collaboration of efforts in the manufacturing process is the first of its kind in the office furniture industry. The process utilizes a system that begins with scrap fabric originating from a Steelcase manufacturing facility. This scrap fabric is recycled into yarn that is then woven into new textiles.
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Elmo Leather
Elmo Leather uses the power of nature to help nature by leveraging bacterial microorganisms, which have the natural ability to convert wastewater pollutants into nitrogen gas. When Elmo harnesses that ability, emissions are reduced by up to 80%. Learn more about their process.
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Natural Materials

Bo Peep
100% Wool. 100% Sustainable. Bo Peep, an Oeko-Tex* certified seating pattern made using 100% wool – a natural fiber and renewable resource. Bo Peep provides a timeless aesthetic in 21 color options and is available as a Price Grade 5 Steelcase Surfaces seating upholstery.

*Oeko-Tex is a global testing and certification system that confirms products meet applicable standards for substances of high concern.
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Remix
Remix, a 90% wool / 10% nylon seating upholstery is made using mélange yarns. Each thread consists of three colors, resulting in an irregular pattern that plays across the surface of the fabric and is reminiscent of a finely tailored apparel fabric. Remix is available to order as a Price Grade 5 seating upholstery in the Americas and in 13 color options.
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Gaja – Cradle to Cradle^CM
Gaja is a solid, sustainable, woolen fabric that is available in 23 color options and as a Price Grade 3 in the Americas. This global fabric is the first European, pure-wool upholstery to gain Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certification by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC). Gaja – Cradle to CradleCM also complies with the Oeko-Tex label and the EU ecolabels (EU flower).
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Steelcut Trio
Steelcut Trio, a 90% wool / 10% nylon seating upholstery, has a special weave designed to create a three-dimensional surface resembling small pyramids or steel points. The elegant pattern is available to order as a Price Grade 7 seating upholstery in the Americas and in 16 color options.
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Material Health

The Cogent™ Group
The Cogent™ Group is a collection of Steelcase textiles creating sustainable results through thoughtful design. The Steelcase seating and panel fabrics that make up The Cogent™ Group are Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold.

Connect, Geode Seating, Geode Vertical, and Trails are the 4 patterns that make up The Cogent™ Group.

Antimony- Free* Yarn
Some of our fabrics are made using 100% polyester, using antimony-free* yarn. These materials, like Buzz2 and Alloy, provide preferable alternatives for the purist in all of us.

*Yarn used in making this material contains less than 100 parts per million of antimony.
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Certified Offerings

FSC COC Certification
Our harvesting practices are just one ofthe steps in achieving Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certification. Chain of Custody is the path taken by raw materials through processing, manufacturing, and distribution.

This certification is more for our customers than for us—we already know our wood products are made from well-managed forests with sustainable harvesting practices. The certification guarantees to customers this is the case.

From the time the wood arrives at our plant, through manufacturing, and until it’s loaded for delivery, FSC COC certification assures customers the product is made responsibly and entirely with certified wood.

Gaja – Cradle to Cradle^CM
Gaja is a solid, sustainable, woolen fabric that is available to order as a Price Grade 3. It is the first European, pure-wool upholstery to gain Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certification by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC). Gaja – Cradle to Cradle^CM fabric also complies with the Oeko-Tex label and the EU ecolabels (EU flower).

The Cogent™ Group
The Cogent™ Group is a collection of Steelcase textiles creating sustainable results through thoughtful design. The Steelcase seating and panel fabrics that make up the The Cogent™ Group are certified Cradle to Cradle™ (C2C) Gold by McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC).

Healthcare Surfaces

Overview
We work closely with Steelcase to provide a complete selection of performance textiles.

Our premier partner for textiles, Designtex is a leader in unique design, fabric technology, environmental responsibility and service. Blending art and science, Designtex product designs work as good as they look.

Solid Surfaces
Steelcase Health’s partner for solid surfaces is Corian.

STEELCASE HEALTH RECOMMENDED VINYLS & POLYURETHANES
Choice Performance textiles are an elite sub-set of performance vinyls and polyurethanes available through our vendor partners that have undergone rigorous testing above and beyond our standard test protocols with proven performance. Steelcase Health recommends the use of these patterns.

Healthcare Graded-In Partners

Designtex
Graded-In fabrics from Designtex can be used on all Steelcase Health, Steelcase and turnstone products.
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Arc-Com
Graded-in fabrics from Arc-Com can only be used on Steelcase Health brand products.
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ARCHITEX
Graded-in fabricsa from Architex can be used on Steelcase Health, Steelcase and turnstone products.
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CF STINSON
Graded-In fabrics from CF Stinson Search + Sample can only be used on Steelcase Health products.
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CORIAN
Corian can only be used on Steelcase Health brand products
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MAYER FABRICS
Graded-In fabrics from Mayer can only be used on Steelcase Health products.
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MOMENTUM
Graded-In fabrics from Momentum can only be used on Steelcase Health products. Customize your selection by grade and quantity with the Momentum 5 Clicks tool.
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ULTRAFABRICS
Graded-In fabrics from Ultrafabrics can be used on Steelcase Health, Steelcase and Turnstone brand products.
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For more information, please visit the Steelcase Finish Library.