Never one to be branded a one-trick pony, Pennsylvania’s Knoll, “recognized internationally for creating workplace furnishings that inspire, evolve and endure,” complemented this year’s revolutionary Generation Task Chair with designer Don Chadwick’s “Spark Series,” a collection of technicolor polypropylene seating and ottomans.

Spark Series Chair. Designed by Don Chadwick for Knoll

Spark is comprised of two styles: an upright-oriented side chair suitable for the office or the training room, and a more casual and spacious lounger (with a sled base) that aims to “bring people together to spark conversation, ideas, and imagination.” It’s a versatile duo. The color palette is catchy and vibrant without becoming over the top. Consisting of six shades (red, acid green, blue, light grey, charcoal grey, and black), each color can be paired with an optional upholstered seat for contrast (I especially like the red-orange thing going on in Knoll’s display of stacked loungers). But lest you think this is nothing more than the latest indoor/outdoor poly-pro number, the real story behind Spark is its manufacture. Beneficiary of Knoll’s brand-spanking-new co-injection molding process, Spark is created in one fell swoop, the process-dyed “skin” bonding to the poly-pro “core” in one quick pass of an alchemist’s wand. This type of single-step fabrication is an exclusive in injection-molded plastics. How nice for attendees that it was incarnated in living color at #NeoCon09, space 1111.