Photograph

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Real Ceiling – Photographs of mock-up

01/01/1988

Mock-up

Professional photographs of two different full scale ceiling mock-ups.

Photographer:

Mark Darley/Esto, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital, Print, Slide

Characteristics:

4"x6", Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Real ceiling 1988

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Low budget patterned ceiling surface made of prefabricated panels, which can be easily installed over the top of most existing celing systems, without affecting accessibility to services, or insulation value. Full scale functioning mockups covering the full extent of the ...

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Photographs

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Projects

The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture 1988 to 1990

Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Two personal offices with furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Client:

Herman Miller, Inc. - Rob Harvey, Vice President

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

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:

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

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 ...