Evan Bare The Verity Lounge Collection was designed by contract furniture designer Evan Bare. Evan has been designing and engineering products for residential, contract and healthcare furniture manufacturers for over a decade. He opened his studio, 608 Design, in 2007. The studio’s founding principle was to experiment with ideas that fuse craftsmanship and technology. When developing ideas, Evan envisions a product from the inside out. Each design is a refined formula that considers ergonomic proportion, durability and material consumption. Today, his ideas are influenced heavily by Mid-Century Modern and Scandinavian design and complemented by traditional-meets-digital wood joinery. Evan says that for him, “the joy of design is balancing mechanical with natural, pitting simplicity against complexity and the challenge of working to reveal ‘luxury’ within the confines of utility.” 608 Design is located in Toronto.