Designed the “Bola” Chair

 Ron Kemnitzer is Professor of Industrial Design at Virginia Tech. Mr. Kemnitzer holds over 15 USA and International patents for his work, which has also been recognized in many design competitions. He received the Gold ‘Good Design Award’ from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in 2001 and 1997. He also received a Gold Award in the 1993 ‘Plant Engineering’ magazine ‘Product of the Yea’ competition and a Bronze Award in the 1992 Industrial Design Excellence Awards sponsored by ‘Business Week’ magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America. In 1988 he designed the best selling ‘Bola’ chair for Fixtures Furniture Company for which he was awarded an IBD Gold Award. 

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University. He currently serves as President of the Industrial Designers Society of America He has served six terms on the Board of Directors, three terms on the Executive Committee and two terms on the Planning Committee, which is comprised of the top five officers of the society. He was elected to the IDSA Academy of Fellows in August 2003. Uncompromised quality, exceptional design and inherent value are the key ingredients in every product sold by Fixtures Furniture. You want something unique. Fixtures Furniture makes it possible. It's been that way since Norman Polsky founded the company in 1947. Fixtures Furniture manufactures high quality, innovative chairs and tables for residential and commercial usage. They have a long-standing reputation for old-fashioned quality and new, advanced design and they call it "Pretty Tough Stuff. " Pretty because they never ignore aesthetics. Tough, because their furniture is built to last. Stuff because every one of their chairs and tables can be used in multiple ways.

 It's an approach that works. Fixtures Furniture has been in the business of supplying first-rate seating to residential, corporate, education and healthcare facilities for over 50 years with an industry reputation for innovation and design. Every Fixtures Furniture chair and table can be customized to your heart's content with so many options in function, design, style, color and finish. With their reputation for design and innovation, it's only natural that their customers include a great many interior designers. These professionals create inspiring, unique environments for both public and private usage, and find Fixtures Furniture to be the best partner for the seating component. They appreciate the range of colors, exceptional design and the options that Fixtures Furniture can provide.

 Fixtures Furniture warrants to the original purchaser that the products manufactured by it shall be free of all substantial defects in original material and workmanship under normal use for a period of ten (10) years from the date of purchase.

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