Haworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Manager’s Desk – Photographs

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 ...

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Six sheets of ink hardline construction drawings of the flat-topped desk.

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.