Charlie designs furniture that does what architecture often won’t — drawing quiet boundaries in open environments without walls or barriers.

Charlie Kane is the principal of XLG Design, a product design studio based in Dallas, Texas. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from the University of Texas at San Antonio and has practiced in furniture, textiles, and commercial interiors for over 20 years.

In collaboration with Shaw Contract Group, Kane has designed carpet collections that have won four Best of NeoCon awards. His work spans workplace planning, flooring, and furniture systems, an integrated approach that treats the designed environment as a single object rather than a collection of separate parts. Before co-founding XLG, he worked as a senior designer at lauckgroup and RTKL.

For Cumberland, Kane designed the Thick and Thin Collection: modular seating engineered to define personal space in open-plan environments. Wide arms anchor individual territory; a flat back allows back-to-back arrangement; varying heights signal interaction levels without partitions. Standard in maple veneer, with options for exotic wood or laminate customization.