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The Herman Miller Consortium Collection at Wayne State University Library is a historic, digital, product collection originally accumulated as part of Herman Miller's corporate archives in a digitized, searchable format. CNN.com: "Cubicles: The great mistake" YouTube.com: "Comments on Herman Miller"—by designer Yves Béhar
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and manufactured and marketed by Herman Miller.First introduced in 1964 as the Action Office I product line, then superseded by the Action Office II series, it is an influential design in the history of "contract furniture" (office furniture).
Max De Pree (October 28, 1924 – August 8, 2017) was an American businessman and writer.A son of D. J. De Pree, founder of Herman Miller office furniture company, he and his brother Hugh De Pree assumed leadership of the company in the early 1960s, with Hugh becoming CEO and president in 1962.
Miller was born on November 10, 1919, in New York City, to Morris Miller (1871–1947) and Esther Booke (1881–1933).He was of Polish Jewish descent. [1] Miller pursued both undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Southern California, where he received his B.A. in 1950 and M.F.A. in 1952.
A lifelong farmer and the entrepreneur behind the Miller Pipeline Corporation and the Miller Cable Company was 95. He was remembered as an unassuming man of diligence, with a great sense of humor.
Howard Miller Clock Company was founded in 1926, as the Herman Miller Clock Company division of office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, specializing in chiming wall and mantle clocks. [2] It was spun off in 1937 and renamed, under the leadership of Herman Miller's son Howard C. Miller (1905–1995). [3]
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In 1923, De Pree decided to found his own business. With the help of a loan from his father-in-law he bought the Michigan Star Furniture Company. (The two purchased 51% of the stock.) He renamed the company Herman Miller in honor of his father-in-law, who was never active in the business.