Correspondence

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Responding to a telephone conversation about legal issues of protection for the design concepts and written materials to be disclosed by the Center for Environmental Structure to the Haworth Company. Copyright vs. Legal Protection is also explained

03/03/1986

Legal Issue, Outstanding Issues

Sender:

Mark A. Steiner, Townsend and Townsend, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

Content of

Project

New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc. 1985 to 1986

Holland, MI, U.S.A.

Office Furniture, Designed , Furniture prototypes built by C.E.S.

Client:

Haworth Manufacturing, Inc. - Tom Hench

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Mark Brinner

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:

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

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 ...

References

Correspondence

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Letter introducing the proposed agreement between the Center for Environmental Structure and Haworth Inc. The letter further introduces issues that exist and must be ironed out as well as items that are still in agreement. Statement of Conditions, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Agreement are attached for review and response 23/01/1986

Project, Legal Issue, Outstanding Issues

Sender:

Robert D. Links, Attorneys at Law - Dobbs, Berger, Molinari, Casalnuovo, Vannelli & Nadel, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Tom Hench, Haworth Inc., Holland, MI, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter