Steelcase is a US manufacturer of office furniture and workplace solutions. The company was incorporated as the Metal Office Furniture Company on 16 March 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan — at the initiative of Peter M. Wege, who created a radically new alternative to wood-dominated office furnishing by fabricating furniture from sheet metal for fire resistance. 1921: trademark "Steelcase". 1954: official renaming as Steelcase Inc. 1998: IPO (NYSE: SCS). Historic milestone: 1937 — furnishing of the Johnson Wax Headquarters in collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright (beginning of the modern workstation concept). 1973: delivery of Series 9000 furniture for 44 floors of the Sears Tower (43,000+ individual pieces). CEO: Sara Armbruster (from 2021). Revenue FY2024: $3.2 billion; approximately 11,300 employees. December 2025: acquisition by HNI Corporation for $2.2 billion; combined pro forma annual revenue $5.8 billion; Steelcase headquarters remains in Grand Rapids.

Steelcase operates production in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East; distribution through approximately 800 dealers worldwide. Subsidiary: IDEO (global design studio). Germany/Austria/Switzerland: Steelcase GmbH (1998, from acquisition of Werndl Büromöbel AG, founded 1895 in Rosenheim). Research partnerships: Harvard, Stanford, Royal College of Arts, Fraunhofer and LMU Munich. Core products: office chairs (Leap, Think and Gesture), systems furniture, partition walls, tables, lounge furniture, architectural elements and textiles (DesignTex). Sustainability programme since 1960 (recycling); Cradle-to-Cradle certifications; lifecycle analyses. Trade fair presence: NeoCon Chicago.

Steelcase is for workplace strategists, architects and facility managers the global benchmark for evidence-based office furniture and space design — since 1912, with one of the broadest research networks in the industry and a product portfolio ranging from the individual workstation to complete office architecture. Since December 2025 part of HNI Corporation.