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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low bookcase / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Low bookcase
1985The 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, ranging from a minimum of four feet to a maximum of eight feet, is finished in acrylic laquer in a range of colors. It has a wide top with upstand on three sides, three drawers, and fixed shelves made-to-order. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office, was further developed for the Herman Miller New Office Furniture System. A paper model of the low bookcase was exhibited in "Designed in California - Rise of the User" on March 2018 in the San Fransisco MOMA, together with other model pieces, a setup for the personal office.
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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: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase model
01/01/1985
Paper model of the Low Bookcase, presented in five photographs.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Work Sofa /
Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Work Sofa model
01/01/1986
The five paper models, inclusive of the Work Sofa, the two Work Armchairs, the Conference Table and the Low Bookcase, in a combined office setup .
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/05/1985
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.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase - Design Development Drawings
01/05/1986
Three sheets of ink hardline construction drawings, including axonometric, elevation, plan and section with basic dimensions.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System - Low Bookcase / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System - Low Bookcase: Shop Drawings
01/05/1986
Hardline pencil shop drawing of the low bookcase, used for its construction.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase - Photographs
01/01/1985
Professional photographs of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase - Photographs
01/01/1985
Professional photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Low Bookcase - Photographs
01/01/1988
View of the low bookcase as built and integrated in the private office mock-up for Herman Miller Inc.
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