Summary: In response to limited space and surging enrollment, DCI and UC Irvine created an innovative and environmentally friendly way to increase occupancy in a new state of the art residence hall, UC Irvine Mesa Court, while designing a feature-rich envrironment for laptop-driven learning. Case Study UC Irvine: One Of The Greenest Universities in America Name: UC Irvine Mesa Court Expansion Location: Irvine, CA Size: 935 sets Building Type: Multi-use Residence Hall Project Team: UCI, Hensel Phelps, Mithūn, …
Case Study: UC Santa Barbara
Summary: Creative collaboration and a passion for sustainable furniture solutions were the hallmarks of our partnership with UCSB San Joaquin Apartments. Together, we crafted a solution that featured modern design, solid hardwood, and local manufacturing. Name: UCSB San Joaquin Apartments Location: Santa Barbara, CA Size: 57 Apartments, 322 Bedroom Spaces Building Type: Multi-use Residence Hall Project Team: UCSB, DCI Product List: Bed, 3-drawer chest, Desk, Pedestal, Wardrobe, Dining Table, Coffee Table, TV Stand UC Santa Barbara UC Santa …
Furniture Leasing Companies: Should You Buy or Lease?
A lot of colleges and universities buy their residence hall furniture outright. But that’s not necessarily the right choice for everyone. For some schools, working with furniture leasing companies to lease their furniture is the better route. Of course there are pros and cons for both buying and leasing, but let’s take a little time to explore the benefits of leasing your residence hall furniture. Based on this information, you can …
Infographic: How To Prevent Climate Change With DCI Furniture
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What Is Mission Style Furniture & Why Is It Great For Residence Halls?
What is mission style furniture? Simple, durable, and functional, mission style furniture emerged in the late 19th century and enjoyed a surge in popularity from about 1900-1915. It came back into vogue in the 1980’s and remains popular today thanks to its sturdy elegance. Mission style furniture was pioneered by the architect, publisher, and furniture maker Gustav Stickley. His inspiration came from the furniture he observed in turn of the century California Franciscan …
How To Customize Your Contemporary Furniture Design
Contemporary furniture design is chimeric. It takes on new forms over time, evolving as trends and preferences change. As a result, it’s tricky to define. In this fourth installment in our series on residence hall furniture design, we pick up where our last article on contemporary design left off. Contemporary Furniture Design In that article, we explored the essence of what defines contemporary furniture design today. Still heavily influenced by the elegant minimalism …
How To Harvest Wood While Nurturing Forest Health
Is cutting down trees bad for the environment? And can the silvicultural selective cutting method help? As a manufacturer of solid hardwood furniture for residence halls, we get this question a lot. And it’s an important one because there’s some legitimate confusion around it. First, whenever we think about cutting trees for any sort of manufacturing process, we immediately think of the worst case scenarios. We imagine the slash and burn …
Case Study: Whittier College
Summary: DCI and Whittier worked together to generate and design a completely new bedroom set and created a 5-year plan to refurbish their entire campus and fully upgrade their design standard. In the process, we recycled of huge amount of furniture from the Whittier College dorms. Project Name: Whittier College Dorms Location: Whittier, CA Size: 450 Sets Building Type: Multi-use Residence Hall Project Team: Whittier College, DCI Product List: Custom Bed with 6-drawer Underbed Storage, Desk, Mobile Pedestal …
What Is Contemporary Furniture Design?
What is contemporary furniture design and how does it relate to its predecessor, modern design? At DCI, we build many styles of furniture, and contemporary is a popular one. But what actually defines contemporary furniture design? These are the questions we explore in this third part of our series on residence hall furniture design. A lot of folks use the words contemporary and modern interchangeably when referring to furniture design, but that’s …
Why Modern Design Is Perfect For Residence Halls
Furniture design is a big inspiration for our work here at DCI. In this second part in our series on furniture design, we hone in on how the principles of modern design shape some of our collections here at DCI. By the way, if you haven’t read the lead article in this series, I recommend you quickly catch up here. Part one features a brief history of modern furniture design. You can find a lot of modern design …