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Don Chadwick Don Chadwick isn't one of those designers who say that their ''real'' studio is in their mind. Chadwick's real studio is in Santa Monica, and he prefers to call it ''an experimental lab.'' ''We're set up to get dirty and take chances,'' Chadwick says. Don Chadwick's love for furniture design goes back to his childhood, when his cabinetmaker grandfather taught him how to use the tools of the trade--hand tools that required skill, precision, and patience. Later, unlike the other industrial design students at UCLA in the mid-1950s, he focused on furniture. And after hearing a Charles and Ray Eames lecture there, Chadwick was convinced: Furniture offered designers, even industrial designers, the chance to use materials in new, innovative ways--and to make a ''real difference'' in people's lives. For over two decades now, Don Chadwick has had a partner in recklessness. ''Herman Miller isn't afraid to take chances on new ideas. That's why the company's been successful for so long, and that's one reason why it's challenging to work for them.'' Bill Stumpf Bill Stumpf once said, ''I work best when I'm pushed to the edge. When I'm at the point where my pride is subdued, where I'm an innocent again. Herman Miller knows how to push me that way, mainly because the company still believes--years after D.J. De Pree first told me--that good design isn't just good business, it's a moral obligation. Now that's pressure.'' Stumpf's association with Herman Miller began in 1970 when he joined the staff of the Herman Miller Research Corporation. After establishing his own firm in 1972, Stumpf created the Ergon chair, the first ergonomic work chair. Later, in collaboration with Don Chadwick, he produced the groundbreaking Equa and iconic Aeron chairs. He also was principal designer for the Ethospace system. During his lifetime, Bill Stumpf--a key figure in Herman Miller's transformation into a research-based, problem-solving innovator--received numerous awards for this work. Most recently, he was named the winner of the 2006 National Design Award in Product Design, an award presented by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
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