Compose and Enclose come out of buildings in full-floor lots, which makes availability lumpy but the pricing hard to beat when it hits.
Downtown Redwood City and Seaport Boulevard. Mid-size software and biotech tenants, most of them in their second or third office. They know what they want and they want it cheaper than new.
Family-owned, globally distributed. Best known for the Fern chair, Compose systems, and architectural interiors that scale from one office to a hundred.
The brand page and the city page both tell you half of this. These are the parts that only apply where the two meet.
Compose and Enclose come out of buildings in full-floor lots, which makes availability lumpy but the pricing hard to beat when it hits. In Redwood City that plays out through Downtown Redwood City, Seaport Boulevard and Redwood Shores. Second and third-office companies. Nobody here is furnishing for the first time, which changes the conversation: they arrive with a spec, a chair they already trust, and a number they will not go over. Demand runs to sit-stand benching, quiet rooms, and lab-adjacent office seating that can be wiped down. Supply comes from the same tenants two leases later, which makes this one of the more self-sustaining submarkets we cover.
Newer mid-rise downtown with real docks, and lab-adjacent buildings out toward Seaport where the office half of the floorplate has to clear the same cleanliness and egress rules as the lab half. That matters more for seating, systems and walls than people expect. Bulk seating clears most access constraints here. Panel systems, casegoods, and anything over eight feet do not, which on this line means the Fern Chair gets an access check before it gets a price.
Haworth sits in the mid-premium tier new, which is exactly why second life is worth the trouble: 50-65% off, second life, on a piece that carried a 12-year manufacturer warranty from the factory. Lab-adjacent floors have separate rules from the office side. We scope them as two projects sharing a loading dock, because that is how the building treats them.
Family-owned, globally distributed. Best known for the Fern chair, Compose systems, and architectural interiors that scale from one office to a hundred. Set that against what Redwood City actually asks for — Mid-size software and biotech, Peninsula coverage and Repeat-office clients — and the Fern Chair and Zody Chair are the two pieces we place most often here.
Same brand, same network, one market over. We move stock between these regularly.
Open line means we are not boxed into one catalog. We have access to second life inventory from almost every commercial furniture brand on the planet. If you can name it, we can probably find it.