Prefabricated furniture

Abstract

A prefabricated furniture system including an overhead framework having utility conduits and supporting a plurality of rigid infill panels. The framework extends over a floor of a building space, and has a plurality of posts, and a plurality of beams, at least some of which are supported at a predetermined elevation above an average user height to define an open, three-dimensional gridwork which spatially partitions the associated portion of the building space. The utility conduits extend along the posts and the beams to provide access to utilities throughout the gridwork. The rigid infill panels are constructed to permit bodily translation of the same by an adult user, and are shaped for positioning between the beams and the floor of the building in side-by-side juxtaposition. Each of the infill panels have upper and lower panel portions equipped to removably retain the same in a selected positioned within the gridwork, wherein the upper panel portion is adapted to engage a lower surface of an adjacent beam, and the lower panel portion is adapted to engage the floor. At least one of the upper and lower panel portions includes a resiliently extensible retainer that biases outwardly to create tight engagement between the infill panels and the floor and associated beams for securely, yet removably, retaining the same in place.