COLLABORATIVE & LOUNGE SEATING
Modern offices don't happen at desks anymore. Collaboration happens around modular sofas, in phone booths, at café-height tables, and in the soft, reconfigurable spaces between the desks. We plan, supply, and install collaborative seating, modular lounge, phone booths and focus pods, lounge tables, and the casual furniture that makes active work zones actually work — across corporate, education, healthcare, and hospitality environments. We carry a deep roster of contract, design-forward, and residential-style commercial lines so we can match the seating to the space, the brand, and the people who'll use it.
The space between the desks does most of the modern work.
Look at any modern office floor plan and you'll see something that wasn't there twenty years ago: deliberate, designed space between the rows of desks. Modular sofas where two people pull together for a quick conversation. Soft-back lounge chairs around a coffee table for a four-person huddle. Bar-height tables and stools where a team gathers between meetings. Phone booths where someone takes a call without disrupting the floor.
That space isn't filler. It's where
collaboration actually happens — the unscheduled conversations, the cross-team huddles, the focused calls that need privacy. The furniture in those zones has to do specific things: it has to
flex between configurations,
support different kinds of work, look
intentional rather than improvised, and stand up to constant use by different people. Collaborative and lounge furniture is what makes a modern open office actually
function as one.
Featured work.
Oklahoma Christian School - high school common space and library/media center.
A project that demonstrates how a single modular soft-seating family can do meaningfully different work across one building. We specified Global's River+ modular lounge system in two distinct applications: the high school common space (configured for casual collaborative use, group conversation, and individual study) and the library/media center (configured for a more structured, longer-stay environment that supports both quiet reading and small-group collaboration). The same product family, the same coordinated finishes, two completely different rooms — which is exactly what a modular lounge is designed to do.
Other collaborative and lounge work we've delivered spans education, corporate, and healthcare clients, including Okana Resort and Imagenet, and continues to be a growing share of the projects we plan as more clients design their floors around collaborative zones rather than just desks.
Every collaborative seating project includes design, delivery, and installation.
When you engage Focus on a workstation project, whether it's six seats or two hundred, the engagement includes:
- Consultation to understand your space, your team, and the kinds of collaboration the zone needs to support (on-site) in the OKC metro; virtual for projects further out)
- Space planning and product recommendations in CET, Revit, or AutoCAD, with attention to traffic flow, acoustics, and how the zone reads visually
- A preliminary quote with layout and pricing
- A review round with design changes
- A final detailed quote with finalized layout for approval
- Order placement and coordination with manufacturers and trades
- Warehouse inspection before delivery - we don't schedule the install until the product is in our hands
- In-house delivery installation by our own crew, including assembly of complex modular configurations and pod installations
- Cleanup after install - wipe-down, vacuum, and removal of packing materials and trash before we leave
- Ongoing service when you need reconfigurations, adjustments, or repairs down the road
The initial on-site consultation, preliminary quote, space plan, review round, and final quote are complimentary
Tayco Halifax Workstation Lounge
By combining product lines from the same manufacturer, we can create seamless transitions between areas and a unified look across an office or workplace.
Senator Mote Collaborative Seating with Meeting Table
Whether you need somewhere to break out, meet up with your team or have a quick catch up, Mote can be configured in infinite ways to suit your size, space and needs. Meet at casual and open Mote configurations that use sofas and ottomans, or Retreat to more private and peaceful settings by erecting screens and canopies.
Senator Mote & Play Work Lounge Space
Mote responds to the demands of dynamic work environments; versatile, reconfigurable spaces for meeting, learning, focusing, or relaxing. Whether you need somewhere to break out, meet up with your team or have a quick catch up, Mote can be configured in infinite ways to suit your size, space and needs.
Mote Multi-Level Collaborative Seating
The Mote family includes sofas, ottomans, screens and accessories, each linking seamlessly to each other to create a combination of rectilinear and curvilinear forms for beautiful yet defined spaces. Meet at casual and open Mote configurations that use sofas and ottomans, or Retreat to more private and peaceful settings by erecting screens and canopies.
River+ Modular S-Shape Sofa with Tables
River+ is tested to three times the BIFMA standard and warranted to an active weight of 600 lbs. per seat location to support the demands of 24/7 environments.
River+ Curved High Back Sofa with Work Shelf
The series offers three back heights, multiple seat heights, and supports both linear, curvilinear, 90-degree and 120-degree configurations.
River+ High Back Sofa & Angled Benches
Elegant polished aluminum arms are fully modular and can be installed and relocated on-site to add support where required and adapt when needs change.
Source Scape Sofa & Martini Chairs
Casual, conversational seating group with Scape low back curved modular sofa & Martini swivel chairs.
Allermuir Haven Bench Modular Seating with Host Tables
Haven Bench helps support collaborative working environments. The benches are available in three lengths and can be used individually or linked. Headrests can be attached to the bench to act as a backrest or a space divider.
Sixinch Tapa Organic Collaborative Seating
The contemporary office needs spaces with an informal lounge atmosphere where employees are able to hold spontaneous meetings in small groups or for just relaxing. This requirement is met by Tapa – a system of modular poufs with organic geometric forms.
Sixinch Tapa Modular Lounge Seating
This unique product combines a striking look with clever functionality. A solution whose basic element is an island consisting of poufs that turn on a pivot, Tapa combines the functionality of a sofa, chair, side table, and stool into one unique modular system.
Sixinch Steen Low-Key Sofa
A simple look inspired by the natural elements of the Earth. The round shape of this settee cultivates a unique lounge feel. Bring out earthy tones or draw attention with neon colors.
Senator Vee Combined Seclusion/Collaboration Seating
With Vee, Senator has produced
a solution that allows individuality
and collaboration to happily coexist. Vee was created to define spaces in populated environments whilst supporting different postures and tasks.
Vee Personal Work Lounge Low Seating
With its simplistic, inviting form, complemented by full, sound absorbing upholstery, as well as
integrated power and under seat storage, Vee is ideally suited for quick touchdowns and recharges, or longer work meetings.
Mote Retreat Personal Chairs with Tablet
Sometimes we need a break from the bustle of a busy office. Mote uses additional screens and canopies to give you, your team and your conversations some privacy.
Allermuir Haven Privacy Armchair
Haven can provide excellent personal privacy, a haven, within a busy world.
Source Scape Privacy Banquette Seating
Scape offers a flexible and versatile option in the modular seating arena. A well-crafted metal frame wraps around the sides and back of all units to create an attractive aesthetic from all angles.
OS Integrate Multi-Level Collaborative Space
The Integrate Collection of furniture allows you to easily design and create a custom seating solution that will meet the lobby, waiting room, or collaborative needs of your facility. Each of the pieces in this collection has been created to fit seamlessly together, so that you can design the seating solution that will best meet the needs of your business, school, or hospital.
Senator Collaborative Space with Play Table & Adapt Wall
Each table in the Play range opens up a wide range of new working possibilities full of adaptability and flexibility for collaborative thinking or individual work. Bring the tables together, pull them up to your desk or even work on them individually, Play tables have been created with flexibility in mind.
Senator Play Collaborative Space with Mobile Table
As we transition from the traditional fixed desk office into a more open, collaborative, and informal, working style, so to have our everydayworking requirements. Play is a solution that enables users to store, divide, meet, and work, in anyway they deem fit.
Senator Mote & Play AV seating area
Play is a solution that enables users to store, divide, meet, and work, in anyway they deem fit. Combine Play with soft furnishings such as Mote and make Play your place to relax. A unique, comfortable place to sit, read and chat gives your team a space to switch off.
Senator CellPod Cabana Meeting Space with Sholes Chairs
CellPod provides an excellent solution when creating privacy and collaboration spaces within work environments. They are designed as freestanding units and feature a structural framework with a demountable panel system so they are simple to install and reconfigure as needs change within an organisation.
Global River+ Media Hearth with Benches
River+ includes a fully modular selection of open benches that can be combined and connected to any of the lounge models or used on their own (as shown). The River+ series includes new Media Hearths to support online meetings and presentations where wall-mounted displays are not possible or desired.
OFGO Unify Collaborative Booth Seating with Table
Unify High Back Curved Seating with Work Shelf
OFGO Invite Modular Booth Seating
Invite Mixed Seating Area
Beatbox Collaborative and Private Seating
OFGO Beatbox Angled Modular Sofa
Beatbox
ERG Tivoli Banquette & Aspen AV work lounge
The Tivoli Banquette is cleverly designed to incorporate both a straight and slanted posture, with the bench resting on a welded steel frame. With the slanted posture in curved or straight units, it offers the option to add a bar height shelf for a unique seating arrangement behind,
as well as in front of the unit.
The Aspen tables offer a dynamic style for conferencing and meeting areas. It offers conference tables, as well as a bar height table with a power bar and a media wall table, great for a touchdown meeting
Deskmakers Narrative Double-Sided Collaborative AV Table
Narrative is a collaborative meeting system for open plan environments. Narrative is available in sitting, standing, and height-adjustable configurations, and includes slide-out white boards.
FAQs
What's the difference between modular soft seating and traditional lounge seating?
Traditional lounge seating is configured as finished pieces — a sofa is a sofa, a chair is a chair. Modular soft seating is a system of components — backs, seats, arms, ottomans, connectors — that can be specified in dozens of configurations and reconfigured later as the space changes. Modular is the dominant approach in modern collaborative spaces because it flexes; traditional lounge still works well in formal lobbies and waiting areas.
Do you carry Framery, ROOM, or other office phone booths?
We carry phone booth and pod systems from ROOM, Nook, Hush (Thinkspace), and more. The category has expanded quickly with new entrants — we'll spec the right pod based on the size, acoustic rating, ventilation, electrical requirements, and aesthetic each project calls for. If a specific brand is the right fit for your project, we can usually fulfill it.
Can you do modular lounge for an education project?
Yes. We recently configured Global's River+ modular lounge system in both the common space and the library/media center at Oklahoma Christian School — one product family, two completely different room functions, coordinated finishes throughout. Education clients are one of our growing segments for collaborative and modular work.
What about modular for an office that wants to feel less corporate?
We carry residential-style commercial lines like Gus Modern and Blu Dot alongside the traditional contract manufacturers. These work especially well in collaborative spaces where the goal is for the furniture to feel like a well-curated home rather than a contract installation.
How long do modular lounge orders take?
Six to ten weeks from manufacturers for built-to-order upholstered configurations, plus about a week of transit. Phone booths and pods ship a bit faster. Quickship options exist for some popular configurations.
Do you handle installation of complex modular configurations and pod systems?
Yes. Our installation crew is in-house and assembles complex modular configurations and pod installations on-site. For pods with electrical or ventilation requirements, we coordinate those trades alongside the install.
What manufacturers do you carry for collaborative and lounge seating?
We carry close to two dozen modular and lounge lines across every tier — premium contract (Andreu World, Studio TK, Allseating, Krug, Senator, Davis, Bernhardt Design, Cumberland, Keilhauer, Trinity), design-forward mid-tier (Arcadia, Boss Design, Stylex, Encore, OFGO Studio), broad commercial (Global, Indiana, Allseating), residential-style commercial (Gus Modern, Blu Dot), plus phone booth and pod systems (ROOM, Nook, Hush/Thinkspace) — and more, plus over 100 manufacturers across all product categories. We match the seating to the space and the use case rather than pushing a single line.
Let's talk about your collaborative space.
Whether it's a single phone booth or a full lounge buildout across a floor, reach us however you prefer — phone, email, or in person. We'll meet you where you are and respond the same.
