Haworth New Office Furniture System: Columns, low walls and sliding doors, as free-standing or embedded elements of walls

1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Space Element

Particular wall elements combined with the thick wall system enabled a variety in the enclosure of spaces. Hollow plywood colums, simple and fairly thick, extending from floor to ceiling or arising out of a low wall, for defining corners and edges of rooms; low thick walls, appropriate for enclosing individual work spaces, and sliding doors for particular uses.

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Project 1 Items

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.

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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Drawings 3 Items

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Scientific Research 1 Items

Innovative Construction Systems, Techniques and Materials

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...