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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive desk
1985Red automobile laquer sprayed over MDF to create high gloss surfaces for the desk frame and its upstand with shelves and pigeonholes, combined with a brown leather slightly sloping writing surface; available in prescribed colors in three sizes. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office, was further developed for the Herman Miller New Office Furniture System .
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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: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/07/1985
Two pages of pen free-hand sketches and four pencil hardline sketches of the desk section and its basic details, representing the final vision of the desk with its special features, and the first attempts to dimension its parts and its ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/05/1985
Four pages with preliminary hardline drawings drawn to scale with dimensions, represent an early idea for the desk .
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Design Development Drawings
01/05/1986
Eight sheets of ink hardline construction drawings; axonometric, elevations, vertical section, plan and horizontal sections, with dimensions.
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk Work Surface Heights - Adjustments & Manager's Desk
01/11/1988
Study on the extent and nature of office work surface height adjustments that occur when workers have the option and support to do so.
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Herman Miller Furniture Systems: System 2000
01/01/1988
8-page preliminary list of office furniture prototypes built by C.E.S. for the Herman Miller project; includes color photos, description, variations, dimensions, and pricing for the following: Manager’s Desk, Executive Desk, Low Bookcase with Drawers, High Bookcase with Flat Files, Japanese ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Cost estimate - C.E.S. desk
14/10/1988
3-page cost estimate for: desk construction, polyester or acrylic melamie finish and finished desk.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Photographs
01/01/1985
Two professional photographs of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Photographs
01/01/1985
Professional photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Scale models of office furniture pieces / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Photographs of models
01/01/1985
Ten photographs of small scale models for the initial testing of the office furniture, representing the initial stage of their development; included are a basic version of the Upright Desk, Rolling Cabinet with Drawers, Counter with Drawers, a Thick Wall, ...
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