Introducing the largest office furniture manufacturing companies in the world (1)

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1-Heman Miller

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Herman Miller was founded in 1905 as the Star Furniture Company. In 1909, Derek John D. Perry joined the company as a secretary and became its president in 1919, when it was renamed the Michigan Star Furniture Company. De Perry and his father-in-law, Mr. Herman Miller, owned 51 percent. They bought the stock in 1923 and renamed it the Herman Miller Furniture Company. This company was officially started in 1960 under the name of Herman Miller

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Until 1930, this company only produced traditional wooden furniture. But with the beginning of the great American economic crisis, the company had to experiment with the creation of new products to survive in the market. Therefore, despite the inner desire, Gilbert Rohde, the designer and hire an expert in modernist designs. Gilbert set the company on a new path, and in 1933, Herman Miller presented the first line of modern furniture at the Century of Progress show in Chicago

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In 1941, Herman Miller opened a showroom in Chicago and another in New York City. In 1942, under the supervision of Gilbert Rohde, the Herman Miller Company entered the office furniture market with the introduction of the "Modular Executive Office" group, thus the first line of office furniture. A large and well-equipped production of office furniture was launched. Rohde Gilbert died in 1944 and was replaced by another expert designer, George Nelson, who had joined the company as design director in 1945. Over the course of four decades, Nelson influenced Herman Miller both through his own ideas and through the elite designers he employed. It was during this period that Herman Miller introduced the Noguchi table and Eames Lounge designs. Chair, Marshmallow sofa, Ball clock, and Sling sofa model achieved world fame in this field.

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In 1961, Herman Miller established the Herman Miller Research Division in Michigan. This division succeeded in developing the "Action Office" product line in 1964 under the supervision of Robert Propst and with the design assistance of "George Nelson Design Studio" in New York. to give Although the initial line, called "Action Office I", was not very successful, it led Propst to develop the "Action Office II" line, which resulted in the unveiling of the large project "Office Room". Action Office II revolutionized the office environment. In 1978, Action Office II was renamed simply "Action Office". The Action Office product line had over $5 billion in sales by 1998. In 2010, Herman Miller acquired Colebrook Bosson Saunders, a company that designs and manufactures ergonomic furniture.

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Also, Herman Miller bought Knoll in a deal worth 1.8 billion dollars in April 2021, and in November 2021, the company changed its name to MillerKnoll. At the end of 2021, Herman Miller's turnover was about 1964 million dollars.

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