celle office chair
Design Jerome Caruso,
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Expectations are high for work chairs, and in places where different people use the same chair successively, around the clock, they’re even higher. The dependable, hard-working design of Celle stands up to heavy use, even in the most demanding environments – from call centres to hospital workstations and from conference areas to laboratories.
737W*688D*980-1100H
At 12 years old, Jerome Caruso discovered his career when a friend of his father introduced him to industrial design, and he heard about a General Motors contest for futuristic car concepts. "I worked in the basement every day after school for months", Caruso remembers, "developing a clay model for the car, transferring the design to a block of wood and carving it out by hand. That was when I realised what I wanted to do – especially after winning an award".
Herman Miller was a West Michigan businessman who helped his son-in-law, D.J. De Pree, buy the Michigan Star Furniture Company in 1923. De Pree had been working at the company, which opened in 1905, since he was hired in 1909 as a clerk. De Pree knew his father-in-law was a man of integrity, so he decided to rename the company after him. By the middle of the 20th century, the name Herman Miller had become synonymous with “modern” furniture. Working with legendary designers George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, the company produced pieces that would become classics of industrial design.