Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase – Photographs

The Low Bookcase, a simple elegant piece of furniture, was designed to be used as a divider within a room or to line a wall or finally as a built-in element within a thick wall. Available in five different lengths, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight pencil elevation sketches of the low bookcase and one section, depicting work in progress, while studying variation of proportions and spacing before the configuration was finalized.

Three sheets of ink hardline construction drawings of the low bookcase.

Hardline pencil shop drawing of the low bookcase, used for its construction.