Retrospective exhibition honors Herman Miller designs

The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Mich., in collaboration with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich., organized a retrospective exhibition of designs from the Herman Miller furniture and office systems manufacturer. The exhibition is called Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller and will travel throughout the U.S. into 2013. The exhibition of designed objects and equipment is organized into four case studies chosen to embody four different characteristics of “good design”: ergonomics, white collar work, graphic communications and Mid-Century classics, showing drawings, models, prototypes, photographs and original objects from the Herman Miller lines, including designs by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Bill Stumpf, whose Aeron Chair (shown) is considered one of the most successful commercial chairs on the market.