Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk – Photographs

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 ...

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 ...

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Eight sheets of ink hardline construction drawings of the upright desk; its fabrication method is based on the assembly of frames instead of parts.