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Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Lighting Standards
15/11/1988
Design Matters,
Informative
Sender:
Neil Goldberg, Herman Miller Inc., Zeeland, MI, U.S.A.
Recipient:
Artemis Anninou, Center for Environmental Structure , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Medium:
Letter
Content of
Project
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 ...
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