Haworth New Office Furniture System: Wall cove light & hanging light

1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

The wall cove light made of white laquered metal with frosted glass on the sides and cut-out ornament on the front; protype installed in the C.E.S. Offices. The hanging light was not developed beyond some initial drawings.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Content of

Project

New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc. 1985 to 1986

Holland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Client:

Haworth Manufacturing, Inc. - Tom Hench

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Mark Brinner

Design and construction process:

Theree design principles guided the development of the project: 1) Layout of the personal work space by their users in order to meet their own personal needs; this process is achievable through the use of a computer program developed at C.E.S. which carries a worker through the design process. 2) Use of flexible manufacturing techniques, which allow individualisation of each piece of furniture, without increasing costs; the purpose of this feature is to eliminate the modularity that is part and parcel of current systems. 3) The basis of design is the real human needs and desires, not on the latest trend.

Project stages:

Pattern language for project by C.E.S. Generic rules for office layout process Use of full scale mock-ups Fabrication of full size furniture prototypes by C.E.S. Design Development drawings done after fabrication

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 ...

Contents

Drawings

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Wall Cove Light / Hanging Light - Design Development Drawings 01/05/1985

Design Development, Axonometric, Section, Elevation

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Vellum

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

3"=1'

Three sheets of hardline ink drawings of the wall cove light & two sheets for the hanging light.

Photographs

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Wall Cove Light - Photographs of mock-up 01/01/1985

Mock-up

Photographer:

Artemis Anninou/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Slide

Characteristics:

Color

Photographs of three different functioning full scale mock-ups for testing wall cove lighting in an office work setup.