Model & Mock-up

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Work Armchair models

01/01/1988

Model

Two paper models of the Work Armchair, presented in five photographs.

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA

Medium:

Array

Size:

3 5/8"x5 5/8"x4 1/8"

Scale:

1:20

Content of

Construction Innovation

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Work armchair 1988

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

An easy chair at normal workchair height, suitable for conferences, working at a work table and relaxing. Upholstered in durable corduroy, with sprung seats padding and wide comfortable arms. Functioning prototype was included in the 12 feet by 18 feet ...

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Projects

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 ...

Public Events

"Designed in California - Rise of the User" Exhibition 01/03/2018 to 30/05/2018

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Exhibition

C.E.S. staff:

Lily Alexander

Organized by:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The artifacts exibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art included works developed for the Herman Miller Furniture Project: One of Christopher Alexander’s gouache sketches from his sketchbook; four paper models of office furniture built by Artemis Anninou, and ...