Superior-based company StandStand recently launched a new standing desk on Kickstarter, the StandStand Grand.
The company’s first product, a portable standing desk for laptops that weighs two pounds, raised $118,000 from over 1800 supports in 2014. Since then, designer Luke Leafgren and his high school friend, Paul Peterson, who manufactures the products at his wood shop, Rob’s Custom cabinetry, have launched several new products in the hopes of bringing jobs to their hometown. With elegant lines and incredible strength, StandStand Grand turns ordinary desks into a work of art. As of mid-August, 172 backers on Kickstarter pledged $28,117 to help bring this project to life. Learn more at Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1RVC87O.
This from the StandStand website:
Sitting is the new smoking. Too much sitting hurts your back, hips, and heart, and even increases the odds of getting cancer. Standing at work, on the other hand, has been shown to improve productivity and focus. At StandStand, we’re fueling the #Standvolution, with our portable, affordable standing desk.
Dreamt up by Luke Leafgren one morning during a meditation session, StandStand is the only truly portable standing desk. Incredibly strong, StandStand collapses to the size of a laptop, weighs less than two pounds, and takes only seconds to assemble. Made in the USA out of sustainable birch and bamboo, StandStand provides the health benefits of a standing desk at home, your office, a coffee shop, or wherever you choose to use your computer.
Most standing desks cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, and on top of that, they stay in the same place. Luke created StandStand so that more people could stand up for their health wherever they choose to work.
StandStand is the standing desk for anywhere. It turns any desk into a standing desk in just seconds.
Luke designed StandStand in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it is produced in his hometown of Superior, Wisconsin, by high school buddy and woodworker Paul Peterson at Rob’s Custom Cabinetry, where Luke also worked for two summers during college. StandStand truly is a locally grown, family-owned business!
