Design That Shapes Tomorrow
At Kimball International, we believe in the transformative power of design. Together with the architecture and design community, we’re reimagining how people live, work, heal, and learn.
Your creativity inspires us. Our role is to support you with the resources, tools, and partnerships that bring bold ideas to life. As you shape the spaces of tomorrow, we’re here to listen, collaborate, and champion your vision every step of the way.
Fueling Your Vision
We’re excited to see your creativity and expertise unfold as you bring bold ideas to life for your clients. With our resources and collaborative support, we can create innovative, enduring environments that inspire and connect people in meaningful ways.
Elevate Live Design
At Kimball International, we believe that exceptional design requires exceptional collaboration. That’s why we developed Elevate, a transformative approach to space planning that combines co-creation, real-time technology, and expert insights to optimize your project outcomes. By integrating these elements, Elevate redefines the design experience, allowing you to easily explore the possibilities for enhancing the effectiveness of your people and maximizing the efficiency of your space.
A&D Programs
Upstar
Emerging Talent Forum
UPSTAR is a forum for emerging design visionaries to share their thoughts, dreams, and goals while making a positive impact on the future of design. Through virtual and in-person after hours events, both locally and nationally, UPSTAR is a multi-city community of the industry’s most profound new voices across top firms in NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Nashville.
Prelude
Student Design Competition
The Prelude Student Design Competition, named to honor Kimball’s piano-making heritage, symbolizes an introduction to something greater for emerging students of interior design. Prelude aims to inspire and foster innovation and strong future partnerships with students and faculty in Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas.
Future X
Futurist Immersion
Future X is an immersive program for interior designers, innovators, and thought leaders shaping the profession's future. Hosted in design-inspired cities, it features trend roundtables, future casting workshops, and city tours, offering cutting-edge design experiences and insights into local cultural renaissances and the evolving future of interior design.
Makers of a Better Future
IIDA Foundation Partnership
The Makers of a Better Future fund, in partnership with the IIDA Foundation, supports IIDA members who are integrating the spirit of foresight into design, fostering innovative solutions for tomorrow's challenges. This award recognizes those committed to advancing technology, sustainability, or social evolution through visionary design practices.
Meet Our Team
With the Kimball International Revit families, you can seamlessly integrate our furniture into your building models, ensuring accuracy and efficiency from concept through specification.
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The Product Configurator is a powerful, user-friendly tool designed to simplify the process of customizing modular furniture solutions. Whether you're a designer, dealer, or end-user, this configurator allows you to explore a variety of product options, adjust finishes, and visualize configurations in real time—ensuring your selections meet both aesthetic and functional needs. By providing an intuitive interface and dynamic customization features, the tool eliminates guesswork and accelerates decision-making, making it easier than ever to create tailored furniture solutions that fit your space and style.
Our surface materials collection is designed to work seamlessly across our family of brands, giving you a wide variety of choices to create inspired spaces. Explore our wide array of materials used across our extensive product offering. From seating and lounge to tables and casegoods, these materials highlight a variety of performance features and benefits while showcasing a breadth of color, texture, and visual interest.
Quick, ready-to-use concept layouts designed to jumpstart your design process. Each one showcases product applications and configurations to help you visualize possibilities, explore design intent, and bring ideas to life faster.
Kimball International has been advancing sustainability practices since 1963, continually progressing as responsible resource stewards and agents of change in our industry. We strive to exceed existing environmental and social standards and shape a better world, driven by our members, customers, and communities.
Insights & Inspiration
Alternative Design
Alternative Design is a platform that explores what’s changing in our world to help designers become makers of a better future. We discuss how diverse perspectives and disruptive ideas can revolutionize the design industry. Tune in to the Alternative Design podcast, check out our blog, and listen to our conversations, to be inspired to craft the world of tomorrow, today.
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Creating Places to Belong
Over the last year, our research, insights, conversations with customers, and even a reflection on our own journey around what it takes to create an equitable, inclusive, flexible, and safe workplace have led to our point of view on Creating Places to Belong. We’ve developed this campaign to share the value of connecting to a greater purpose and supporting individual needs.
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Showrooms
With showrooms across the county, we are able to share inspiring spaces that showcase our solutions in a variety of environments. By offering an experiential and personalized live tour or an interactive, virtual experience, we are excited to immerse our A&D partners in everything we have to offer.
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CEUs
Our CEUs offer thought-provoking education at the intersection of foresight and design, helping industry professionals understand emerging trends shaping the future of workplace, healthcare, and education environments.
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