The Padua Lounge Collection by Kwalu receives Best of NeoCon Business Impact Honorable Mention

The Padua Lounge and Loveseat Collection offers a level of elegance and sophistication but doesn’t forfeit any of the traditionally strong solid surface attributes from Kwalu that deliver extreme durability and cleanability for healthcare.

Facility managers and designers can transition the Padua Lounge Collection from the luxury side to playful and fun by rethinking their artistic design palette and injecting new color choices for the finishes and fabrics. Kwalu’s art-inspired bases are the perfect partner for Padua’s dome-shaped seating that contours the body to provide continuous comfort and is the cornerstone of superior patient experiences. Padua’s seat is perched on an artfully designed frame that includes wall saver legs, quality and durability. Since the legs are guaranteed to look like new for 10 years, it continues to deliver at least a decade of uninterrupted elegance. The seats are field-replaceable to easily maintain its pristine and posh aesthetic.

Padua can pivot to a colorful and playful collection by selecting pops of color. The loveseat and lounge provides a virtually unlimited palette for designers to create their visions while specifying multiple award-winning solid surfaces including the “Metallics that Aren’t Metal” or the “Wood that’s Not Wood.”

The Padua, Kwalu’s first couture collection, exudes unparalleled potential to create upscale healthcare furniture designs with lasting luxury.

First impressions are critical as visitors make a number of decisions from the time they walk in the front door. Chipped and scuffed chair legs send a subliminal message about the level of care and could potentially affect their star rating. Facilities staff will approve of not having to repaint scuffed or damaged metal/wood bases on a frequent schedule. Plus, patrons should benefit from simple yet pristine bases that deliver a message of care. Padua’s upholstered areas are dressed with French seams which add an additional level of stitching sophistication with the added bonus of being a barrier via overlapping internal seams to make liquids harder to infiltrate the foam.

The Padua comes with a performance warranty for 10 years, with Kwalu offering full replacement. Further, the French seams and general upholstery construction are guaranteed for 10 years. The fabric warranty is decided by what the designer selects, but Kwalu has made it easy to order a new seat for replacement, leading to less disruption, labor, expense, and hopefully longer ownership.

The Padua Lounge Collection, like most Kwalu products:

• Are SCS Certified Furniture: SCS Indoor Air Advantage Gold, the highest quality rating for indoor air quality;
• Use steel for its patented joint construction made from 99% recycled content (82% pre-consumer and 17% post-consumer);
• Are LEVEL® certified: BIFMA‘s sustainability certification program for furniture, LEVEL, is a comprehensive and transparent third-party certification program. The LEVEL mark attests that the product, the manufacturing facility, and the company responsible for the product brand, have been evaluated against the multi-attribute criteria of the ANSI/BIFMA e3 Furniture Sustainability;

• Meet the Healthier Hospitals (HHI) criteria: Many furniture manufacturers meet HHI, but what other manufacturers fail to mention is that their products won’t last, and customers are signing up for constant replacements and intermittent lackluster impressions as their products start to wear out.
• Use eco-certified wood composites: The small amount of wood used carries various environmental certificates such as ECC Standard 4-19 for Eco-Certified Composites and CARB Compliance. Plus, upon request, Kwalu can offer wood that carries environmental certificates including Responsible Forestry from SCS and Sustainable Forestry Initiative.