King of Prussia, PA · Philadelphia & the tri-state region · Since 2002
Workplaces designed for the people who use them.
Kershner Office Furniture is a full-service commercial furniture dealer. One team handles design, project management, delivery and installation, with new and pre-owned furniture from more than 200 manufacturers.
The reviews are about the process, not just the furniture.
Working with Kershner was an absolute delight. From the initial consultation to the final installation, their team showed professionalism and genuine commitment to customer satisfaction.
Renee B.Leadership Solutions, Inc.
The conference room furniture looks great! We are pleased with how it turned out. Thank you for the open lines of communication and a seamless process.
Nicole R.Brookwood Financial Planners
Kershner Office Furniture was so professional during the installation of our furniture. Their attention to detail and customer service was exceptional.
David M.Abington Neurological Associates
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Hospitals, headquarters, schools and libraries across Philadelphia and the tri-state region. A selection is below. Ask a consultant for the case study on any project in the index.
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Featured · Healthcare
Main Line Health, King of Prussia
A rooftop farm with an outdoor living classroom, guest-chef dining and the specialty center below it. Outdoor and indoor furniture that has to look good from a drone and hold up to a Pennsylvania winter.
Two anchor partners. Two hundred more behind them.
Kershner is Kimball International's select dealer for the Philadelphia market and a dealer for Global Furniture Group, and specifies from more than 200 other manufacturers when the project calls for it. You get the right product, not the one we happen to stock.
Select dealer · Philadelphia market
Kimball International
Kimball, National and Interwoven: workstations, private office, lounge and healthcare furniture designed and built in the United States. Kershner's showroom carries Kimball product you can sit in today.
Anchor partner
Global Furniture Group
Task seating, benching, tables and storage with some of the best value-to-quality ratios in the industry, and lead times that make fast-track projects possible.
The rest of the catalog
200+ manufacturers represented
From ancillary lounge pieces to lab casework, the team specifies across the market and manages every vendor under one purchase order.
Textiles & finishes
Fabric partners the design team specifies daily.
Arc-Com
Designtex
Carnegie
Pre-owned
Steelcase, Herman Miller, Knoll and more, inspected and ready to ship through Preowned Options.
Exploring ideas in workplace design means pushing past conventional thinking toward spaces that inspire, empower and elevate the human experience. A few of the pieces we keep coming back to.
A family name that has been in Philadelphia workplace design for three generations, and a company founded in 2002 to carry it forward.
Bruer Kershner, CEOFounded Kershner Office Furniture in 2002, carrying a family name that has been in the business for three generations.
The Kershner name has represented excellence in workplace design for more than six decades. What began with Claude B. Kershner grew into a trusted, industry-leading provider of new and pre-owned furniture, and in 2002 Bruer Kershner founded the company that carries the name today.
We design environments that reflect your brand, support your culture, and empower the people who use them.
The team brings an average of 25 years of commercial furniture experience to every project, which is why the work goes well beyond furnishing a room. Every engagement is a chance to build an adaptable, inspiring space that evolves with your organization, today and for years to come.
1960s
Claude B. Kershner establishes the family name in Philadelphia workplace design.
2002
Bruer Kershner founds Kershner Office Furniture in King of Prussia.
Today
200+ manufacturers, seven markets, and a full-service team of fourteen.
Markets
Seven markets. One standard.
Different markets have different rules. A hospital waiting area needs bleach-cleanable fabric. A classroom needs to survive teenagers. A lobby needs to make a first impression. We know the codes, the contracts and the products for each.
Corporate headquarters, professional offices and multi-floor fit-outs.
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Your office is the one place your whole culture shows up every day.
Commercial work is the core of what we do, from a single private office to a full headquarters. Clients in our project index include SEI, Scrub Daddy Headquarters, Ardent Bank and Creative Financial Group.
One team handles design, project management, delivery and installation, so you work with the same consultant, designer and project manager from the first walkthrough to the last punch-list item. At Tunnell, that meant a standing-height table by the window, so the best light in the office goes to the conversation.
What we plan for
Workstations & benching
Private offices
Conference rooms
Cafés & lounges
Classrooms, libraries, commons and admin suites for K-12 and higher ed.
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Students learn everywhere now: the classroom, the library, the hallway and the commons.
Schools ask more of furniture than almost anyone. Chairs get stacked, dragged and tipped back every day, tables have to regroup between periods, and libraries and commons only work if students actually want to spend time in them.
Our Designing Education lookbook collects the classrooms, libraries and commons our designers specify from, for K-12 and higher ed. St. Hubert’s is in our project index, and we know which products hold up to a school year.
What we plan for
Classrooms
Libraries
Commons & cafés
Admin suites
Waiting, clinical support and staff spaces built for cleanability and long shifts.
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Every visit starts in the waiting room.
Healthcare furniture has to stand up to hospital disinfectants, support bariatric patients with dignity and still look like somewhere a nervous family wants to sit. Staff spaces matter just as much, because long shifts are hard on people and on furniture.
At Doylestown Hospital we used curved lounge seating and cleanable upholstery for a high-traffic waiting area, and laser-cut screens to turn a corridor into small waiting alcoves without building a single wall. At Main Line Health in King of Prussia, the work went all the way up to the rooftop farm.
What we plan for
Waiting & lobby
Patient & family seating
Clinical support
Staff spaces
Municipal, county and agency offices, courts and community facilities.
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Built for the public, and built to outlast the budget cycle.
Municipal, county and agency projects come with purchasing rules, review cycles and furniture that has to last through decades of daily use. We know the contracts and the codes, so the paperwork moves as carefully as the design.
Radnor Library is in our project index. Libraries, courtrooms and community rooms all share the same brief: durable, easy to maintain and welcoming to everyone who walks in.
What we plan for
Agency offices
Courts & council rooms
Libraries
Community spaces
Lobbies, lounges and amenity spaces where the seating is the experience.
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In a lobby, the seating is the first impression.
Lobbies, lounges and amenity floors are furnished to be looked at as much as sat in, and they still take constant traffic. The pieces have to look as good in year ten as they did on opening day.
At Three Logan Square in Center City we refreshed the lobby with leather seating, sculptural side tables and a rug that holds the space together against 1980s marble, then added a second seating group by the garden to soften the stone. Sixteen seating lines are on the floor at our King of Prussia showroom if you want to sit before you choose.
What we plan for
Lobbies
Lounges
Amenity floors
Dining
Residential comfort with commercial durability for common areas and dining.
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It should feel like home and clean up like healthcare.
Residents live with this furniture every day. Common areas and dining rooms need the warmth of a living room: wood arms, soft color and chairs that are easy to get into and out of.
Behind that warmth sits commercial construction and upholstery that cleans up after every meal. We specify from healthcare lines like Sycamore Wood by Interwoven, which comes in guest, tandem, bariatric and patient seating so a whole community can match.
What we plan for
Common areas
Dining rooms
Resident lounges
Wellness spaces
Plant offices, control rooms, break rooms and training spaces.
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Plant offices work as hard as the plant.
Control rooms, plant offices, break rooms and training spaces take more wear than a typical office, and they often have to be ready on a production schedule, not a design schedule.
We specify steel-bodied storage and desking built for demanding environments, from manufacturers like Global whose lead times make fast-track projects possible. Our project index also lists chemical, life-science and distribution companies such as Solenis, Purolite and Aramsco.
Fourteen people. Twenty-five years each, on average.
You will work with the same consultant, designer and project manager from the first walkthrough to the last punch-list item. Here is who that will be.
Leadership
Bruer KershnerChief Executive Officer
Brian HartlineChief Operating Officer
Workplace consultants
Brian StephensPartner / Workplace Consultant
Jessi JacobsWorkplace Consultant
John YoastWorkplace Consultant
Design & project management
Darlene HersheyDirector of Design
Hailey DeverDesigner
Monica StinsonDirector of Project Management
Michele FurlongProject Manager
Andi BoamanProject Specialist
Stacy HeathProject Specialist
Jessica MussieProject Specialist
Finance & operations
Geri SwartzController & Operations Manager
Connie MigeotChief Financial Officer, Emeritus
Showroom walkthrough
The showroom
Come sit in it. King of Prussia, ten minutes off the Turnpike.
600 Clark Avenue has live Kimball and Global typicals, seating you can test, and a design team on site. Tours are by appointment so a consultant can walk it with you.
Build a quick project brief below, send a message, or call 610-768-0200. A consultant replies within one business day, and the showroom door at 600 Clark Avenue is open by appointment.