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William Eugene Stumpf (March 1, 1936 – August 30, 2006) was an American furniture designer who helped design the Aeron, Embody and Ergon chairs for Herman Miller.. It was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where Stumpf, working with specialists in orthopedic and vascular medicine, conducted extensive research into ergonomics, specifically in the way people sit.
George Nelson's influence at Herman Miller gradually declined during the 1970s as new designers joined the company, including Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf, who in the 1990s developed the highly-successful Aeron chair. [8] In 1981, Herman Miller started to work with the Italian designer Clino Trini Castelli on the process of designing physical ...
Development of the Aeron chair began in the late 1970s, after Herman Miller hired designers Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf.They sought to design a chair that improved upon the shortcomings of La-Z-Boy recliners that were often used in residential and medical settings for the elderly, and completed a prototype called the Sarah Chair in 1988.
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and manufactured and marketed by Herman Miller.First introduced in 1964 as the Action Office I product line, then superseded by the Action Office II series, it is an influential design in the history of "contract furniture" (office furniture).
Aeron chair, an ergonomic office chair designed by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf for Herman Miller; Air chair, [4] a lightweight moulded chair design by Jasper Morrison; Alta chair and ottoman designed by Oscar Niemeyer [5] Ant chair, designed in 1952 by Arne Jacobsen for use in the canteen of the Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Industries.
Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell says it was a really easy decision to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the presence of three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani played a ...
He has designed the Chadwick modular seating system (1974) and, in cooperation with Bill Stumpf, the Equa 1 (1984) and the Aeron chair (1994), all for Herman Miller. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Among his recent designs is the Chadwick chair and Spark chair for Knoll , and Ballo for Human Scale.
In 1960 Herman Miller created the Herman Miller Research Corporation under the direction of Robert Propst, and the supervision of George Nelson. [10] Although Nelson remained at Herman Miller's main campus in Zeeland, Michigan , Robert Propst and the Herman Miller Research Corporation was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan [ 10 ] to place it in ...