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MillerKnoll
MillerKnoll, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Herman Miller, is an American company that produces office furniture, office equipment, equipment, and home furnishings. Its best known designs include the Aeron chair, Noguchi table, Marshmallow sofa, Mirra chair, and the Eames Lounge Chair. Herman Miller is also credited with the 1968 invention of the office cubicle (originally known as the "Action Office") under then-director of research Robert Propst (inventor), Robert Propst. History : Herman Miller was founded in 1905 as the Star Furniture Co. In 1919, it was renamed the Michigan Star Furniture Co. under then-president Dirk Jan De Pree. De Pree and his father-in-law, Herman Miller, (born Harm Mulder on 7 September 1867 in Hoogemeeden, Groningen, Netherlands) acquired most of the company's shares in 1923 and renamed it the Herman Miller Furniture Company. With the coming of the Great Depression, the company faced bankruptcy until De Pree met Gilbert Rohde, an up-and-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of S&P 600 Companies
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P SmallCap 600 (S&P 600) stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 Market capitalization, small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 600, the index contains 602 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 2 of its component companies. __TOC__ S&P 600 component stocks Stocks here are cross referenced with the following index funds to compose the list: *Vanguard S&P Small-Cap 600 ETF () *SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF () *iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF () These index funds may be rebalanced at different intervals resulting in a small difference in holdings. The following table is sorted by ticker symbol by default. Recent and announced changes to the list of S&P 600 components Periodically, S&P Dow Jones Indices reflects the changes of the index in response to company takeover, or updates the index based on com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HAY (company)
HAY is a Danish furniture company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2002 by Mette and Rolf Hay. Its goal was to create and sell well-designed furniture that was accessible in terms of price as well as "design concepts". As of 2019, the brand is majority-owned by U.S. furniture company Herman Miller. The cofounders serve as HAY's creative directors, with Rolf in charge of the furniture division and Mette in charge of accessories. They are closely involved in the development of HAY products, which is collaboratively done among in-house designers and product developers as well as a roster of international designers such as Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Stefan Diez, Johannes Torpe, and Naoto Fukasawa. History Early years HAY was founded in 2002 by the husband-and-wife duo, Mette and Rolf Hay, who had themselves met when they worked at Gubi, another Danish furniture company. The idea for a furniture company came about when Rolf Hay met Troels Holch Povlsen, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Hunt
Holly Hunt is an American designer. She is the founder and CEO of Holly Hunt Design (now a subsidiary MillerKnoll, Inc.), a company that designs, produces and showcases custom made product including indoor and outdoor furniture, lighting, rugs, textiles and leathers. Early life and education Born and raised in West Texas, Hunt's childhood aspirations were to be involved in fashion design. After graduating from Texas Tech, she completed an executive training program at Foley's in Houston, a now defunct department store once owned by Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's). With her interests still in designing, she moved to New York City in the early 1970s to become a design assistant for the president of a costume jewelry firm. Career In 1983, Hunt bought a small showroom in Chicago's Merchandise Mart The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago, Illinois. When it opened in 1930, it was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eames Lounge Chair
The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman is a lounge chair and ottoman manufactured and sold by American furniture company Herman Miller. Introduced in 1956, the Eames Lounge Chair was designed by Charles and Ray Eames and is made of molded plywood and leather. It was the first chair the Eameses designed for the high-end market. The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Design Designers Charles and Ray Eames sought to develop furniture that could be mass-produced and affordable, with the exception of the Eames Lounge Chair. The chair was inspired by the traditional English club chair. Though the Eames Lounge Chair later came to be considered an icon of modern design, when it was first made, Ray Eames remarked in a letter to Charles that the chair looked "comfortable and un-designy". Charles's vision was for a chair with "the warm, receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt." The chair is composed of three curv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Office
The Action Office is a series of furniture designed by Robert Propst, and manufactured and marketed by Herman Miller. First introduced in 1964 as the ''Action Office I'' product line, then superseded by the ''Action Office II'' series, it is an influential design in the history of "contract furniture" ( office furniture). The ''Action Office II'' series introduced the cubicle. History Robert Propst was the Herman Miller Research Corporation's leader during the early 1960s. They worked on an evaluation of "the office" – particularly how it functioned in the 1960s. Propst's studies included learning about the ways people work in an office, how information travels, and how the office layout affects their performance. He consulted with Joan Evans (scholar of ornament and pattern), Terry Allen and Carl Frost (Michigan State University psychologists), Robert Sommer (who investigated the effects of different spaces on mental health), Edward T. Hall (anthropologist and author of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muuto
Muuto is a Scandinavian design company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The product range includes furniture and other design products. History Muuto was founded by Kristian Byrge and Peter Bonnen in 2006. Byrge had previously been involved in the foundation of Noma. In August 2014, Maj Invest Equity acquired a 45% share of the company. In December 2017, it was announced that Knoll had acquired Muuto with effect from January 2018 for US$300 million. Products Muuto collaborates with leading Scandinavian designers who are paid through royalties. In 2019, Muuto launched the Strand collection of lighting with Benjamin Hubert, marking its first collaboration with a British designer. The products are sold through 1,300 distributors in 52 countries (2014). Muuto Talent Award Since 2010 Muuto has hosted an annual talent award for Nordic student. ;2012 winners: *1st prize: David Geckeler ( Royal Danish Design School) for Nerd Chair * 2nd prize: Caroline Olsson ( Akershus University) for Bam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street stock market crash of October 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Weimar Republic, Germany. The Depression was preceded by a period of industrial growth and social development known as the "Roaring Twenties". Much of the profit generated by the boom was invested in speculation, such as on the stock market, contributing to growing Wealth inequality in the United States, wealth inequality. Banks were subject to laissez-faire, minimal regulation, resulting in loose lending and wides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Rohde
Gilbert Rohde (1894–1944), whose career as a furniture and industrial designer helped to define American modernism during its first phase from the late 1920s to World War II, is best known today for inaugurating modern design at Herman Miller Inc. Background Beginning in 1932, and continuing up to the time of his death in 1944, Rohde advised Herman Miller's president, Dirk Jan De Pree on design, marketing, and production. Herman Miller was one of a dozen furniture manufacturers where Rohde initiated modern design, among them the Heywood-Wakefield Company, the Widdicomb Company, and the Troy Sunshade Company. Rohde lived in New York City and its environs throughout his life. He was educated in New York City public schools, graduating in 1913 from Stuyvesant High School, which was known at the time for its rigorous vocational studies program. Post-high school studies included classes at the Art Students League and the Grand Central School of Art. A 1927 trip to France and Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement. Modernism centered around beliefs in a "growing Marx's theory of alienation, alienation" from prevailing "morality, optimism, and Convention (norm), convention" and a desire to change how "social organization, human beings in a society interact and live together". The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing influence of science. It is characterized by a self-conscious rejection of tradition and the search for newer means of cultural expressions, cultural expression. Modernism was influenced by widespread technological innovation, industrialization, and urbanization, as well as the cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nelson (designer)
George Nelson (29 May 1908 – 5 March 1986) was an American industrial designer. While lead designer for the Herman Miller (manufacturer), Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, designed 20th-century modernist furniture. He is considered a founder of American modernist design. Early life Nelson was born on May 29, 1908, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Jewish parents Simeon Nelson and Lillian Canterow Nelson. His parents owned a drugstore. Nelson graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1924, and thereafter attended Yale University. He did not originally set out to become an architect; he happened upon the architecture school at Yale, when he ducked into a building during a rainstorm, in order to get out of the rain. Walking through the building, he came upon an exhibit of students' works entitled "A Cemetery Gateway". Nelson met with some early recognition while still an undergraduate, when he was published in ''Pencil Poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dirk Jan De Pree
Dirk Jan "D.J." DePree (July 31, 1891 – December 10, 1990) was an American furniture designer, and a founding participant and furniture business leader involved in the companies that would become the brand and manufacturer, Herman Miller, under whose company presidency that name was taken—from a participating early investor, his father-in-law, Harm Mulder (whose name was anglicized as the eponymous brand name). The early company DePree ran was a family company, with the elder DePree's involvement—according to his son and subsequent Herman Miller President and CEO, Hugh DePree—spanning from executive decisions regarding furniture design and manufacture, to quality control of its released products. Early life and education Dirk Jan DePree was born in Zeeland, Michigan, on July 31, 1891. His father, Pieter (Peter) De Pree, was a tinsmith who was active in local politics. His grandparents were Dutch Calvinists who had immigrated to Zeeland in the late 19th century. DePr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeron Chair Brooklyn Museum
Aeron is used in several ways including: People ;Given name *Aeron Clement (1936–1989), American science fiction author ;Fictional characters *Aeron Azzameen, only daughter of the Azzameen family from the video game, '' Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance'' * Aeron Greyjoy, character from the novel series, ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' *Aeron, the main protagonist of the action role-playing video game '' Pandora's Tower'' Places * Aeron (kingdom), early Brythonic kingdom in northern Britain *Ciliau Aeron is a community and small village 4 miles from Aberaeron in Ceredigion, Wales on the left bank of the River Aeron. The community includes the village of Cilcennin. The word ''Ciliau'' comes from the Welsh for ''corners''. ''Aeron Corners'' in ..., small village near Aberaeron in Ceredigion, Wales * Nova Aeron, an Austrian paraglider design * River Aeron, small river that flows into Cardigan Bay * Ystrad Aeron, small village between Lampeter and Aberaeron, Wales Other uses * Aeron (Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
