Go BackHaworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk – Photographs
01/01/1985Three views of the desk, depicting it partly finished after the first attempt to build it using the normal way of four shaped legs and connecting beams; its top and upper part were completed with cardboard. It was based in the C.E.S. initial set of drawings, models and mock-ups, but it was found quite bulky and far from what was initially visualized.
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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
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: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Design Development Drawings
8 8) Horizontal section above the top
01/05/1986
Eight sheets of ink hardline construction drawings of the upright desk; its fabrication method is based on the assembly of frames instead of parts.