Haworth New Office Furniture System: Scale models of office furniture pieces

01/01/1985

Model

Ten photographs of early small scale rough models for studying the required variety of elements and the completeness of a line of office furniture, as well as the sought-after scale, form and feel of the office furniture sytsem. .

Photograph:

Photographer:

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

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Digital, Slide

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Construction Innovation 7 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive desk 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Red 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 ...
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling Cabinet with Drawers 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Rolling cabinet made of black lucite and heavy brass castors. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Counter with drawers / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Counter with drawers 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

20" deep counter top with four rows of drawers below in enamelled wood. Initially developed as an office furniture prototype for the Haworth New Office Furniture System, and then installed in one of the private offices of the Sweet Potatoes ...
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Office chairs, stools and armchairs 1985

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Light weight that can be made in a variety of shapes and sizes to fit the user. This piece of furniture was not developed much further beyond small scale models.
Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Thick Walls 1985

Construction System, Monocoque Construction

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

A custom made set of thick wall components, all premanufactured with the same height, standardized thickness, and a variety of standardized lengths, to enable the realization of a variety of rooms, as they were laid out by the users. ...
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Conference table 1986

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, Artemis Anninou

Varnished wood table with an inset worksurface of green laminate and a pronounced overhang. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Computer setup 1986

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

An idea about a computer set-up area, deep enough to accomodate all kinds of connections and subunits, behind the main screen unit, not advanced besides some initial sketches, scale models and mockups. This first idea was further developed in 1988 ...

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Projects 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.

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 ...

Drawings 11 Items

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