Herman Miller Collection - Reading Response

Herman Miller Colletion

We are lucky at the U of O Portland campus to have pieces from the Herman Miller collection in our building. It is an amazing collection of great furniture designs put into production with a high quality and standard in mind. I find it very innovative and an inspiring business approach to furniture design because Herman Miller did not look at market structure and how the public would take to the furniture, rather the designers and manufactures at Herman Miller knew that if great furniture design was produced no matter the cost that it would be accepted well by the public who needed and continues to need good design. I think it is very interesting also that most of the very famous furniture designers are actually architects who have used their knowledge of good architectural design to create good furniture design. The designs of Eero Sarenin , Alvar Aalto, and the Eames brothers have inspired me to look into furniture design and maybe even save my pennies to buy one of their amazing designs.