Go Back“Designed in California – Rise of the User” Exhibition
01/03/2018 to 30/05/2018The exhibit was held in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Christopher Alexander participated in it with the works developed for the “Herman Miller Furniture System” CES project, in which the role of the users in shaping their workplace was fundamental. The artefacts exhibited were one of Christopher Alexander’s gouache sketches from his sketchbook, four paper models of office furniture built by Artemis Anninou, and digital screen captures from the design software for laying out office space, from the collection of Greg Bryant.
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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Participation of the Users in the Design Process - Testing and Applying Pattern Languages and Layout Rules
Christopher Alexander believed that people have a right to determine and shape their environment. The genuine and wholehearted involvement of the users in the shaping of their buildings contributes positively to good architecture. It gives life, identity and personal qualities ...
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New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc.
1985 to
1986
The new system of office furniture, intended for mass production, was designed in such a way as to be capable of creating the environment for millions of workers, in an endless variety of specific configurations. The line of furniture provided ...
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The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture
1988 to
1990
Herman Miller, the second largest manufacturer of office furniture in the United States, commissioned C.E.S. to develop the "personal workplace", a new system of furniture, which aimed at changing the nature of the American workplace completely. The emphasis was on ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low bookcase / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Low bookcase
1985
The Low Bookcase, a simple elegant piece of furniture, was designed to be used as a divider within a room or to line a wall or finally as a built-in element within a thick wall. Available in five different lengths, ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Conference table
1988
Long table for major conferences, cherry and painted wood. Central panel and side panels polished cherry; work surface, hand painted stenciled painted design, to order by the company. Central panel with electrical outlets provision. Functioning prototype was included in the ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Work armchair
1988
An easy chair at normal workchair height, suitable for conferences, working at a work table and relaxing. Upholstered in durable corduroy, with sprung seats padding and wide comfortable arms. Functioning prototype was included in the 12 feet by 18 feet ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Work Armchair models
5 5) Side view
01/01/1988
Two paper models of the work armchair, presented in five photographs.
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Conference Table model
5 5) Base of table - front & bottom view
01/01/1988
Paper expandable model of the conference table, presented in five photographs.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase model
5 5) Side view
01/01/1985
Paper expandable model of the low bookcase, presented in five photographs.
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