HBF has tapped Barcelona-based designer Mario Ruiz to create Linea, a new office casegood collection that brings a clean, simple aesthetic and an unusual range of surfaces and colorations to the market.

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Mr. Ruiz is best known in Europe where his sleek, contemporary product designs for home and office for a wide range of international furnishing companies have won numerous awards.

Kevin Stark, HBF’s Vice President of Design, cites several important features that give Linea its special appeal. He points to the variety of material thicknesses with subtle offsets that give each piece proportions of unusual subtlety. A wide range of detailing options are also critical -- glass or extruded aluminum shelving, anodized drawer pulls and grommets, leather and acrylic work surface inserts, and the use of dark finished bases that are intentionally set back to make each unit feel as if it is floating.

In addition to the seven veneer options and standard finishes, Linea is also offered in painted finishes to create a more casual, but still elegant, office configuration.

In creating Linea, Mario Ruiz says, “We strived to design a furniture program that would easily adapt to diverse scenarios, something that we achieved by using a unique combination of materials and proportions. This results in designs that give a new look to each configuration in which they are used. While looking light and airy, each unit offers optimum storage capability and expansive work surfaces.”