Steelcase
Node: Seating for Active Learning Environments
Purpose-built for classrooms and dynamic learning spaces, the Node chair is equally at home in corporate settings like training rooms, lobbies, and touchdown areas. Its mobility and flexibility make it an essential tool for modern spaces.
The Node chair enables quick and seamless transitions between learning and collaboration modes. Whether shifting from presentation to team activities or accommodating multiple uses across a campus, Node adapts effortlessly. Designed to support active and fluid learning experiences, the Node seating family is a versatile solution for environments both within and beyond the classroom.
Benefits & Features
- Casters ease mobility for quick, easy transitions between teaching modes
- Swivel seat keeps open sightlines between student and instructor, whiteboard, and other students
- Personal worksurface swivels in with seat and is adjustable for users of all sizes. It accommodates left- and right-handed students and is large enough to support students’ digital and analog resources.
- Tripod base keeps backpacks and valuable personal belongings out of the aisle
- Five-star base provides seat-height adjustability
- Optional cupholder and tablet stand free up worksurface area for books and other technology
- Flexible seat, without pneumatic adjustments to worry about, keeps students comfortable in a variety of postures
- Open seat design offers easy access, while arms serve as backpack hooks
- Comfort without upholstery means easy maintenance
- Steelcase warranty with elevated durability testing
Options
- Choose between tripod with storage or five-star with seat-height adjustability, both available with worksurface. Base options include hard casters, soft casters and glides
- Five-star base is also available in stool height.
- Available with or without worksurface
- 21 color options for seat shell
- Base is available in 3 color options
- Worksurface is available in 5 colors
- Optional cupholder and tablet stand available
Assembly
The Node chair is shipped in three simple parts (base, seat shell and worksurface-if ordered) that assemble in 30 seconds without tools. Really.
Environemntal
Every stage of the Node chair’s life is being considered. We work with McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) to select materials that are assessed safe for human and environmental health.
The Node chair is undergoing a complete Life Cycle Assessment, evaluating the chair’s lifelong impact on the environment—from materials extraction through production, shipping, use, and end of life.
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