Go BackHaworth New Office Furniture System: Flat-topped Desk with Rolling Cabinet with Drawers next to it, and Upright Desk with the Rolling Side Table – Photographs
01/01/1986Two professional photographs of fully functioning prototype pieces of office furniture in use.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling side table / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Rolling table
1985
Rolling side table made of black lucite surfaces with heavy brass castors, used for miscellaneous machines and equipment, and sundry small items. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office. A version of this, constructed in solid wood, ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive desk
1985
Red automobile laquer sprayed over MDF to create high gloss surfaces for the desk frame and its upstand with shelves and pigeonholes, combined with a brown leather slightly sloping writing surface; available in prescribed colors in three sizes. Furniture prototype ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling Cabinet with Drawers
1985
Rolling cabinet made of black lucite and heavy brass castors. Furniture prototype incorporated in the Center for Environmental Structure office.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Rolling Side Table - Sketches
2 2) Sketch with note 'Not this one'
01/05/1985
Three pages with initial perspective pen dimensioned sketches and details by Christopher Alexander.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
4 4) Axonometric detail of the leg
01/07/1985
Two pages of pen free-hand sketches and four pencil hardline sketches of the desk, showing the first idea and attempts to dimension its parts and develop its fabrication method.
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
4 4) Horizontal sections above and underneath the top
01/05/1985
Four pages with preliminary hardline drawings drawn to scale with dimensions, represent an early idea for the design and fabrication of the desk, which evolved and was further modified, introducing a new fabrication method based on the assembly of frames ...
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