Formway

Formway is a research-led design studio at 43b Seaview Road in Wellington, New Zealand, designing products for furniture brands. It started in the 1950s as a small manufacturer of steel furniture in Petone; the current ownership group bought the company in 1981, introduced new manufacturing techniques and began building the design and development expertise that later defined it.

In 1999 the studio scaled up its research with the goal of designing the world’s best task chair, and the Life chair, made for Knoll, became its first project licensed for manufacture and global distribution. The portfolio now includes Generation and MultiGeneration for Knoll, Blink for Teknion, Denn for Zenith, Lightly and Noho Move for Noho and Revive for Natuzzi. Formway holds 64 patents, 167 design registrations and 62 trademarks.