Dealer Designer
At Kimball International, we believe in the transformative power of exceptional design.
It has the potential to reshape spaces and profoundly enhance the lives of those who work, heal, and learn within them. We’re grateful you’ve chosen to join our design community. As you begin this exciting journey, be assured of our unwavering support and the robust resources we offer. We are here to listen, support, and inspire you.
Robust Resources for the Dealer Designer Community
Welcome aboard
Your Journey
Begins Here
We eagerly anticipate seeing your creativity and expertise unfold as you bring our furniture and designs to life for your clients. Together, we are poised to craft extraordinary, innovative, and sustainable spaces that leave a lasting impression.
OVERVIEW
DDAB
An annual advisory board that provides invaluable feedback on eTools, product requirements, and other specification assets. This input is crucial to enhancing our offerings and ensuring that our design resources best serve the dealer designer community.
Sign up to become a valued member of our DDAB.
DDLP
An immersive training program, held at our Jasper, Indiana, headquarters, that serves as the capstone to your training journey. It combines hands-on experience with inspiration, enabling participants to create captivating and functional spaces that amplify the customer experience and boost sales.
DDDC
An inclusive monthly gathering where designers come together to discuss trends, exchange insights, and elevate their design skills by sharing innovative ideas. In addition, designers learn about Kimball International product updates, CET enhancements, and brand resources. Together, we aspire to refine our craft and generate standout design specifications.
DDIN
This special feature, found inside our Cadence monthly newsletter, delivers the latest product launches, design inspiration, exclusive content, and industry insights - all curated with dealer designers in mind. Be the first to discover new tools, stay ahead of trends, and gain insider access to resources that help fuel your success. Your design advantage starts here.
Working with Your Design Strategist
Bringing Spaces to Life
As Kimball International’s visual storytellers, the Design Strategist team collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to enhance the design process and bring spaces to life. We exceed our clients’ expectations by stretching the boundaries of design. By utilizing our deep industry knowledge and expertise, and applying our robust portfolio from five distinct brands, we provide unique applications that challenge the status-quo. We’re passionate about creating spaces that enrich the experience of those who work, learn, and heal within them.
CET Designer is an intelligent, highly visual and intuitive space planning software that simplifies specifying and selling of contract furniture. CET Designer is a complete solution that quickly and accurately handles every step of the design and specification process.
For help with the Kimball, National, Etc, and Interwoven CET Designer extensions, please contact us using the button below.
DesignSuite
Wherever your vision takes you, DesignSuite supports it. DesignSuite is a curated, end-to-end design program that meets projects at any stage and scales with their complexity. Through thoughtful collaboration, responsive expertise, and a concierge-level approach, we simplify the path from concept to specification, helping teams make confident decisions with fewer handoffs. Acting as an extension of your team, DesignSuite turns complexity into clear direction and vision into progress.
At Kimball International, we strive to achieve industry-leading production dependability. We are committed to providing the highest level of service to create the best customer experience.
Generally, our products are at a 3-6 week lead time. Some standard products and our Quick Delivery program offer solutions in 2 weeks or less.
Our lead times are updated daily. For large projects, please consult your Customer Service Account Manager or Strategic Sales Manager for lead time planning and to better align with your installation needs.
Kimball International Surface Materials. 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.
Price Lists
Brand Resources
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.
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.
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.