Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Hermann Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk – Photographs
01/01/1985Professional photograph of fully functioning prototype piece of office furniture.
References
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Color and Inner Light: The Eleven Color Properties
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 ...
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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale
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 ...
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New System of Office Furniture for Haworth, Inc.
1985 to
1986
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 ...
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The Personal Workplace - New System of Office Furniture
1988 to
1990
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 ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/07/1985
Two pages of pen free-hand sketches and four pencil hardline sketches of the desk section and its basic details, representing the final vision of the desk with its special features, and the first attempts to dimension its parts and its ...
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Preliminary Design Drawings
01/05/1985
Four pages with preliminary hardline drawings drawn to scale with dimensions, represent an early idea for the desk .
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Haworth New Office Furniture System: Upright Desk / Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Executive Desk - Design Development Drawings
01/05/1986
Eight sheets of ink hardline construction drawings; axonometric, elevations, vertical section, plan and horizontal sections, with dimensions.