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A furniture system for outfitting a building space, includes a plurality of partition frames, each having horizontally spaced apart uprights with opposing sides, and having horizontal frame members connecting the uprights. A top one of the horizontal frame members is one-piece and attached to a top

A furniture system for outfitting a building space, includes a plurality of partition frames, each having horizontally spaced apart uprights with opposing sides, and having horizontal frame members connecting the uprights. A top one of the horizontal frame members is one-piece and attached to a top of the uprights. The top one horizontal frame member includes opposing side faces that are spaced apart a distance greater than the opposing sides and that include cover-supporting connectors. Cover panels are provided having frame-engaging connectors extending horizontally beyond an inside surface of the frame. The frame-engaging connectors are configured to releasably engage the cover-supporting connectors. This allows the cover panels, when attached to the partition frames, to define an internal cavity in the frame that extends horizontally a width of the frame and vertically substantially the height of the frame. This in turn allows utilities to be flexibly routed vertically and horizontally within the partition frame, and from partition frame to partition frame.

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[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A freestanding partition system for subdividing a building space, comprising:a partition frame having horizontally spaced apart uprights and having horizontal frame members connect

[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A freestanding partition system for subdividing a building space, comprising:a partition frame having horizontally spaced apart uprights and having horizontal frame members connecting the uprights, a top one of said horizontal frame members being attached to a top of the uprights, the uprights including opposing sides defining a first distance therebetween, the top horizontal frame member including a single tubular member having a top section, opposing structural sidewalls that are spaced apart a second distance substantially greater than the first distance and are adapted to support loads thereon, outwardly angled sidewalls, and including a sidewall-supporting bottom section for structurally supporting the sidewalls;at least one cover panel configured to releasably engage the horizontal frame members including the top horizontal frame member, whereby the at least one cover panel, when attached to the partition frame, defines an internal cavity in the frame that extends horizontally an entire width of the frame including around the uprights, and extends vertically substantially an entire height of the frame up to a bottom of the top horizontal frame member, thus allowing utilities to be laid into the internal cavity and flexibly routed vertically and horizontally within the partition frame, and from the internal cavity of the partition frame to an internal cavity of an adjacent/identical partition frame; anda furniture component attached to at least one of the sidewalls and structurally supported by the top horizontal frame member.