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The Infinite Cat Project
Presented by Mike Stanfill, Private Hand
Illustration, Flash Animation, Web Design
www.privatehand.com
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The Aeron chair is a product of Herman Miller, designed in 1994
by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf. It is an ergonomic chair which
is expensive but many regard as very comfortable. The chair became
a symbol of the rise and fall of the dot-com industry in the 1990s.
However, its breakthrough design has gained it a spot in the New
York Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. The chair is not upholstered. Instead, the seat and back are made of a semi-transparent and flexible metal mesh called a pellicle. Another noteworty feature is that the Aeron is manufactured in three different sizes, A, B and C for Small, Medium and Large respectively. The struggle to find a market for the chair is discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink. |