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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager’s desk
1986Red automobile laquer sprayed over MDF to create high gloss surfaces for the desk frame and its drawers, combined with a gray laminate worksurface insert; available in different prescribed colors and dimensions. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office, was further developed for the Herman Miller New Office Furniture System .
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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: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/05/1985
Ten preliminary sketches, some free-hand and some hardline line, which show the sequence of how the design evolved from its initial concept.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Design Development Drawings
01/05/1986
Six sheets of ink hardline construction drawings, including axonometric, elevations and sections with dimensions.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Construction Drawings
02/12/1988
The construction process of the Managers Desk – the engineering rationale, description and specifications with detailed drawings; 8-page document prepared for the fabrication and assembly of manager’s desk by Herman Miller. Also two drafts of initial presentation drawing packages with ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk Work Surface Heights - Adjustments & Manager's Desk
01/11/1988
Study on the extent and nature of office work surface height adjustments that occur when workers have the option and support to do so.
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Herman Miller Furniture Systems: System 2000
01/01/1988
8-page preliminary list of office furniture prototypes built by C.E.S. for the Herman Miller project; includes color photos, description, variations, dimensions, and pricing for the following: Manager’s Desk, Executive Desk, Low Bookcase with Drawers, High Bookcase with Flat Files, Japanese ...
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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Desk
01/01/1989
Six pages with handwritten notes, sketches and calculations for a desk target-cost.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Photographs
01/01/1986
Professional photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Photographs
01/01/1986
Photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk with Rolling Cabinet with Drawers next to it, and Upright Desk with the Rolling Side Table - Photographs
01/01/1986
Two professional photographs of fully functioning prototype pieces of office furniture in use.
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