Drawing

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager’s Desk – Preliminary Design Drawings

01/05/1985

Preliminary Design, Perspective, Elevation

Ten preliminary sketches, some free-hand and some hardline line, which show the sequence of how the design evolved from its initial concept.

Drawing:

1) Initial axonometric sketch
2) Second axonometric sketch, with proposal for the desk top
3) Elevation with a narrow cabinet at each end
4) Elevation with one central drawer and three small at each end
5) Elevation with one row of three drawers
6) Elevation with one central drawer and two small at each end
7) Variation of the previous elevation
8) The elevation adopted

Content of

Construction Innovation 1 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's desk 1986

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Red 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 ...

References

Drawings 4 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Design Development Drawings 01/05/1986

Construction Innovation, Design Development, Axonometric, Floor Plan, Section, Elevation

Digitized

Six sheets of ink hardline construction drawings of the flat-topped desk.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Construction Drawings 02/12/1988

Construction Innovation, Construction Drawings, Axonometric, Section, Elevation, Details

Digitized

The construction process – engineering rationale, description and specifications with detailed drawings; 8-page document prepared for the fabrication and assembly of the manager’s desk by Herman Miller.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Construction Drawings 02/12/1988

Construction Innovation, Construction Drawings, Axonometric, Plan, Section, Elevation, Details

Digitized

Five original pencil colored hardline drawings.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Construction Drawings 01/11/1988

Construction Innovation, Construction Drawings, Axonometric, Plan, Section, Elevation, Details

Fourteen construction drawings in-progress with annotations and remarks, focusing on the fabrication process, and consequently identifying the pieces of the desk frame, the drawers, the top and the trims.

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Photographs 4 Items

Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Photographs 01/01/1986

Construction Innovation, Finalized Piece of Office Furniture

Digitized

Professional photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Photographs 01/01/1986

Construction Innovation, Finalized Piece of Office Furniture

Digitized

Photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
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

Construction Innovation, Finalized Piece of Office Furniture

Digitized

Two professional photographs of fully functioning prototype pieces of office furniture in use.
Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager's Desk - Photographs 01/01/1986

Construction Innovation, Finalized Piece of Office Furniture

Digitized

Three close-up views of the desk corner with the two side drawers .

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