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Select 2018 Europe Select 2018 Europe Welcome to Select 2018 Select is a simplified offer of our top-selling products, designed to make choosing and ordering quicker and easier, saving you and your clients time and money. This easy-to-use programme includes: > A selection of our most popular > All products are on 20-day lead products, in a wide range of pre- time or less, with some featured defined colours and finishes products available within 10 days > An improved experience > To order simply visit EOS, choose to specify and order. Simple from the ‘HM Select Euro’ specifications, easy codes and catalogues (10 day & 20 day clear prices in one easy to use versions), and enter the simplified catalogue, with helpful visuals product code shown on the to illustrate those choices page. Or send your order directly to your Herman Miller Sales > A reference catalogue you can Representative use with clients, or to build your own specification This carefully selected offer provides a starting point to specify from. For more information or to access our other products and the full range of colours, materials & finishes, please visit Omni, our website, or speak to your Herman Miller Representative if you have any questions. Contents Introduction 4 Creating a Living Office 12 Office Chairs 16 Side Chairs & Stools 24 Desking 34 Tables 42 Space Division 46 Storage 48 Accessories 54 1 2 3 1. Action Office II 2. Herman Miller’s Founder & Designers: (l to r) Robert Propst, Alexander Girard, George Nelson, DJ De Pree, Ray Eames & Charles Eames Our Heritage Herman Miller began as the Star Furniture Company which opened in 1905 in Zeeland, Michigan. In 1923 a clerk 4 employed by the company, D.J. De Pree, convinced his father-in-law whose name was Herman Miller to purchase the majority of the shares in the company. De Pree decided to name the company after his father-in-law and Herman Miller was born. The company initially produced replica traditional wooden furniture but from 1924, following the appointment of the designer Gilbert Rohde, a line of original modern furniture was introduced. In 1945 De Pree hired George Nelson as the company’s first design director, and this started the tradition of working with leading designers including Charles and Ray Eames and Alexander Girard, which continues to the present day. In the 1960s, Herman Miller introduced the Action Office System, the world’s first open-plan modular system of panels and attaching components. Designed by Robert 5 Propst, Action Office revolutionised office design and spawned a whole new industry. Herman Miller Archive Advertisements: 3. 1952 4. 1953 5. Action Office II, 1968 Introduction 5 " PortalMill is a great example of Herman Miller's confidence in our future" Brian Walker, CEO Herman Miller 1 2 1. PortalMill, UK 2. PortalMill Shop Floor 3. PortalMill Screen Section 4. PortalMill - The Street 5. PortalMill - Cut & Sew 3 4 Our Business Today Herman Miller’s first factory and offices outside North America opened in Bath in 1970. The company continued to expand over the next forty-five years adding offices, manufacturing and logistics facilities in Chippenham. In 2015, Herman Miller’s ongoing commitment to UK manufacturing was confirmed by a custom-built 170,000 square foot facility, designed by leading architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. This new building combined the activities from the other sites. By bringing wood processing, chair assembly, logistics, research and development, and operations under one roof, our staff are able to work together more closely, better serving our customers with faster, more efficient solutions. PortalMill is just one of Herman Miller’s spaces around the world. In addition to spaces in North America, including our global headquarters in Zeeland, Michigan, there are showrooms in London, Dubai, Milan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City and Sao Paolo. Coupled with 5 these spaces are manufacturing and assembly plants in the UK, USA, India, China, Brazil and Mexico. Introduction 7 1 2 1. Soludos Studio, USA 2. RIBA Incubator, London 3. Wolverhampton University 4. c2:Concepts, Glasgow Working With Us We work with companies of all shapes and sizes to create workplaces that connect people and inspire them to do great work that drives success. Our aim is to create offices uniquely suited to the culture and way people at the company work. The result is a workplace which makes staff and customers proud to work with you and has the flexibility to change as your business expands. We use a blend of problem- 3 solving products and workplace expertise to make this kind of space a reality for companies of all sizes, including start-ups. Our route to market is through an extensive network of highly trained office furniture dealers, who we work closely with to expertly serve our customer base. “We’re delighted with our new environment because it brings leading edge design thinking into our own world and we think that you should practice what you preach”. Mark Alcorn c2:Concepts, Glasgow “SAP is a corporation that values its people, and that’s why it’s vitally important to contribute to employee engagement. Facilities management is traditionally seen as a bottom line department, looking after buildings, but that’s actually wrong – we look after people.” 4 Michael Roper, EMEA Vice President Global Real Estate and Facilities, SAP Introduction 9 1 2 1. Factory Fifteen, London 2 & 3. Hoare Lea, Bristol “The feeling of space has made a huge difference to the staff working here, and simply having places to work that aren’t our desks, has been really beneficial. It’s also been great to see people from different parts of the business coming together – the business feels more collaborative overall.” 3 Justin Spencer, Partner Hoare Lea, Bristol Introduction 11 Creating a Living Office At Herman Miller, we have worked with the world’s leading Each Living Office is unique, based on the specific character, thinkers and designers to apply a greater understanding purpose and activities of the people who use it. You can start of people – how they think, how they create, and how they planning your Living Office by understanding the types of interact – to design work environments that harness people’s activities that people engage in the most. motivation and encourage them to create their best work. For more information about Living Office, including We call it Living Office. requests for one of our specialists to deliver a workshop, By offering a variety of spaces optimised to support different seminar or client presentation, please contact types of work and interaction, Living Office enables people to [email protected] choose the setting that best meets their needs. Whether it is a place for deep thought or a café space for casual conversation, Living Office gives people an experience of work that can’t be found anywhere else. Activities No matter what kind of work is happening, or if people are working alone or together, this is how work gets done. In every workplace around the world you’ll find people engaged in the following 10 activities. Together Converse Co-Create Warm Up, Cool Down Chat Huddle Show & Tell Alone Divide & Conquer Process & Respond Contemplate Create Creating a Living Office 13 Surroundings Creating a Living Office Once you know what kind of work people are doing, you can start to plan the workspace accordingly. By creating spaces that help this work get done, whether that’s technology to support presentations, Furnishings Tools or a quiet corner for contemplation, people will be more productive and work more effectively. Each of the following 10 settings has its own identity, and is designed to support one or more types of work. These settings can be tailored, with varying size or layout to best suit the needs of your business, as well as reflecting the unique character of your workplace. Meeting Space Cove A Meeting Space is designed to support A Cove is a compact space within proximity to information sharing – whether it’s a single individual work points or common areas that speaker at the head of the room, or a group of enables people to assemble and engage with peers talking and listening among themselves. each other for a short period of time. Hive Forum A Hive takes advantage of co-location A Forum is designed to support the to help drive work forward. presentation of content. Jump Space Haven A Jump Space consists of highly approachable A Haven is a small shelter where concentrative, work points that facilitate work for a distinct and focused work can be done without distractions discrete period of time between other activities. and alternatively, a place to unwind. Clubhouse Plaza A Clubhouse is a working neighbourhood A Plaza acts as the vibrant and dynamic heart that generally belongs to a team assigned of the landscape – a place where people can to a specific, long-term project. intuitively take the pulse of the organisation. Workshop Landing A Workshop is the ideal setting for people A Landing is an open perching spot to work together to generate new ideas and adjacent to Meeting Spaces or Forums. drive their work forward. Creating a Living Office 15 Office Chairs Sit Well, Do More From the 1946 introduction of the Eames Moulded Every Herman Miller chair begins with you in mind. Plywood Chair – recognised by Time® magazine as We set out to provide you with a great place to think, the Best Design of the 20th Century – through to the to create, to share. We want you to sit well, so you revolutionary ergonomics of Classic Aeron in 1994 can do more. Every Herman Miller chair benefits from and remastering of Aeron in 2016, Herman Miller has and adds to our growing body of knowledge about consistently designed and manufactured the world’s the design and performance of chairs – leading to best chairs.
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