Haworth New Office Furniture System: Scale models of office furniture pieces
01/01/1985Ten 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. .
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive desk
1985
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 ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling Cabinet with Drawers
1985
Rolling cabinet made of black lucite and heavy brass castors. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Counter with drawers / Sweet Potatoes Offices and Workshops: Counter with drawers
1985
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 ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
4 4) Axonometric detail of the leg
01/07/1985
Two pages of pen free-hand sketches and four pencil hardline sketches of the desk, showing the first idea and attempts to dimension its parts and develop its fabrication method.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
4 4) Horizontal sections above and underneath the top
01/05/1985
Four pages with preliminary hardline drawings drawn to scale with dimensions, represent an early idea for the design and fabrication of the desk, which evolved and was further modified, introducing a new fabrication method based on the assembly of frames ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling Cabinet with Drawers - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/05/1985
Three pages, one with preliminary hardline drawings drawn to scale with dimensions, and two pages with early rough sketches.
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