CHICAGO, IL – June 7, 2025 – OFS is proud to announce that it has been awarded Best Showroom at Fulton Market Design Days, as part of the prestigious IIDA Showroom and Booth Design Competition. The honor recognizes OFS’ commitment to creativity, craftsmanship, and storytelling through immersive showroom experiences.
Organized annually by the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), the competition honors the originality of design and visual impact across NeoCon and Design Days in Fulton Market, celebrating the industry's most imaginative showrooms, booths, and pop-up spaces. Winners are selected based on the inventive use of materials, space, color, texture, lighting, and graphics.
“Our goal is always to create more than a showroom, we aim to create an experience that resonates emotionally with our guests,” said Hank Menke, President and CEO of OFS. “To be recognized in this way, especially at an event as influential as Design Days, is a reflection of the heart and purpose our team puts into every detail.”
This year’s OFS showroom, which includes Carolina and ROOM brands, invites guests into a layered narrative of wellness, hospitality, and human connection, an intentional reflection of how design can shape culture, community, and care. The space blended warmth with functionality, highlighting OFS’ expanding capabilities and commitment to sustainable design.
“We wanted people to walk through our doors and truly feel something, comfort, curiosity, inspiration, and the genuine warmth of our team,” said Molly Menke Prior, SVP of Sales and Experience at OFS. “For us, it always comes back to people, our customers, our partners, and our community. Winning Best Showroom reinforces that we’re living our values: what you make people feel is as important as what you make.”
The award also underscores OFS’ design philosophy: simple, purposeful, and personal. The showroom was thoughtfully designed to embody these principles, every detail intentional, every element connected to a deeper story. It’s a reflection of our capabilities and how our teams, across our entire company, come together to create experiences that are as meaningful as they are beautiful.
“We’re thrilled and honored by this recognition from IIDA,” added Andrea Ecret, Sr. Director of Brand and Product Marketing. “This space is the result of incredible collaboration and a shared vision to express our values—human-centered design, authenticity, and the power of place. We’re grateful to our team for bringing this vision to life and to the IIDA judges for their time, thoughtfulness, and consideration.”
As OFS continues to expand its presence in the design world, this award is a meaningful milestone in the brand’s journey to inspire better experiences, one showroom at a time.
About OFS
OFS is a family-owned contract furniture manufacturer dedicated to crafting experiences and products that contribute to places where people want to be. Founded in 1937, OFS provides furniture and logistics solutions for office, healthcare, education, lifestyle, government, and home office markets worldwide, offering seating products, tables, casegoods, and open plan products. OFS is based in Huntingburg, Indiana.
About Carolina
For over 75 years, Carolina has designed and manufactured quality healthcare furniture for customers around the globe. Founded in 1947, Carolina has constantly evolved their products and expanded their knowledge to meet the needs of tomorrow’s challenges, as well as today’s. Carolina is based in High Point, NC, and was acquired by OFS in 2007. Due to the unique connection to OFS, Carolina can also draw from their full offering of products designed for administrative working spaces.
About ROOM
ROOM is reshaping the modern workplace to create the offices of the future around the world. Offering modular and creative architectural office solutions that seamlessly transition a stagnant floorplan to one that is adaptive and dynamic, ROOM's series of purpose-built products foster productivity, team collaboration, focused individual work, and everything in between. All without the hassle, expense and negative environmental effects of traditional construction. With over 7,000 unique customers ranging from budding startups to Fortune 500 companies including Google, Samsung, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and NASA, ROOM is inspiring a better way to work for all. ROOM is now part of OFS, one of the largest independent office furniture manufacturers and workspace innovators in the country.
OFS Press Contact:
Aaron Estabrook: aestabrook@ofs.com