Photograph

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Cuttable Worksurface and Window Place – Photographs

01/01/1988

Finalized Piece of Office Furniture

Photograph of fully functioning prototype pieces of office furniture, a cuttable worksurface that extends wall to wall, in front of a window place.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Source:

Print, Slide

Characteristics:

4"x6", Color

Content of

Construction Innovation

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Cuttable worksurface 1988

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

Endless desk top surface which can be installed at any length, according to the clients need. High quality soft linileum top with high gloss enamelled wooden trim; legs enamelled and removable for easy storage, with adjustable height; brackets, instead of ...
Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Window place 1988

Work of Art for Project, Office Furniture Prototype

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black

A set of three panels which can be used to form a window place in any office. These panels create wall surface and header, and sill; covered with cloth. May be used with curtains. Full scale mockup incorporated in 12 ...

References

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 ...

Drawings

Herman Miller New Office Furniture System: Cuttable Worksurface - Construction Drawings 02/12/1988

Construction Innovation, Construction Drawings, Axonometric, Section, Elevation, Details

Designers:

Christopher Alexander, Artemis Anninou, Gary Black, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Original on Paper

Size:

8 1/2"x11"

Scale:

1/8"=1", 1/4"=1", 1/2"=1"

The construction process of the Cuttable Worksurface – the engineering rationale, description and specifications with detailed drawings; 18-page document prepared for the fabrication and assembly of low bookcase by Herman Miller .