Experience the new KI Inspiration Center in Chicago, where thoughtfully curated environments inspire creativity, discovery, and meaningful design conversations.
For more than 80 years, KI has built a reputation on engineering, craftsmanship, durability, and a commitment to helping people do their best work.
This Design Days, we're opening the doors to something new.
Located in Chicago's Fulton Market district, the KI Inspiration Center was created around a simple idea: today's designers aren't looking for traditional showrooms. They're looking for inspiration.
They want places that spark ideas. Places that encourage exploration. Places that bring together products, materials, technology, and human experience in meaningful ways.
That's exactly what this space was designed to do.
KI's new Inspiration Center is located at 1045 W. Fulton Street, where Fulton meets Aberdeen Street.
Designed to Be Experienced
Created in partnership with Whitney Architects, the Inspiration Center embraces “industrial whimsy,” a design language that balances the authenticity of manufacturing with moments of surprise, creativity, and warmth.
Throughout the space, visitors will discover layered materials, integrated architectural elements, expressive textiles, immersive product experiences, and unexpected details designed to encourage curiosity.
Natural light fills the showroom. Hospitality-inspired settings invite conversation. Interactive moments encourage participation rather than observation.
This isn't a space designed to be walked through.
It's a space designed to be experienced.
Experience Giverny, the latest collection from Pallas Textiles, and integrated design partnerships with KI Wall.
One Story. Multiple Perspectives.
Together, KI, KI Wall, and Pallas Textiles create a cohesive design experience where furnishings, architectural walls, textiles, graphics, acoustics, and material exploration come together to tell a unified story.
Visitors can explore Giverny™, the latest collection from Pallas Textiles, engage with live artistic activations, discover the possibilities of Infinity From KI™, interact with the latest KI products including the Tributaire™ Collection and Outspan™ Outdoor Collection, and experience how KI Wall solutions help shape environments that feel both beautiful and purposeful.
The result is a layered experience where different design disciplines intersect, creating spaces that support connection, creativity, focus, and well-being.
See award-recognized designs from KI, including Outspan outdoor seating and tables and Tributaire media sharing tables.
Innovation You Have to Feel
At the heart of this year's experience is the public debut of the Kiaura Collection™ built with Cognetic Technology™, a patented seating innovation designed and invented by Aaron DeJule for KI.
For decades, seating has focused on helping people sit still more comfortably, adding more levers, more adjustments, and more ways to support the body in a fixed position.
But humans were never meant to stop moving.
Cognetic Technology takes a different approach.
Rather than asking the body to adapt to the chair, it responds naturally to continuous movement, supporting balance, comfort, engagement, and flow throughout the day.
It's a technology that can't be fully understood through specifications, videos, or diagrams.
It must be experienced.
Experience the debut of Cognetic Technology on seating from the Kiaura Collection, designed and invented by Aaron DeJule.
Inside the Inspiration Center, visitors can interact with the Kiaura Collection and participate in The Art of Flow, an immersive activation that transforms your natural movement while seated in a Kiaura Collection lounge chair built with Cognetic Technology into one-of-a-kind digital art called a Cognetograph.
Take home a custom tote featuring your Cognetograph as a personalized reminder of your glimpse into the future of seating.
No two experiences are alike. No two outcomes are the same.
Pre-register for the Art of Flow here.
Come See What's New
Design Days has always been about discovering new ideas.
This year, we're inviting visitors to discover a different side of KI.
Explore new products. Experience new technologies. Engage with interactive activations. Connect with our brands, our designers, and our partners. Or simply take a moment to recharge in the Flow Chamber Relaxation Station.
Whether you're curious about the future of workplace design, interested in the possibilities of movement, or simply looking for fresh inspiration, we hope you'll stop by and experience it for yourself.
Join us June 8–10 at the KI Inspiration Center, 1045 W. Fulton Street, 8th Floor, during Fulton Market Design Days.
The Movement Begins June 8.
