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The Lifework Portfolio's Airia desk strikes a balance of simple function, timeless style, and quality craft. The elegant millwork of the walnut frame, tapered legs, and cork-lined trays exemplify the creative use materials and attention to detail. Thoughtful cable management is included. The line also includes a versatile media cabinet. In a home interior, Airia complements classic furniture as well as new styles.

Our goal, in Herman Miller for Healthcare, is to solve our customers' problems better than anyone else. Take our height-adjustable Mobile Technology Carts, for example. We think they provide the best way to streamline the transfer of information between work areas and patient bedsides or other points of care. One for a laptop, one for a flat-panel monitor, keyboard, and CPU.

Sometimes only a wall will do. But a permanent wall isn't always the best or most cost-effective solution

Herman Miller offers a portfolio of modular walls that combine the structural performance of constructed walls with the versatility and cost savings of a panel system—and they are the perfect solution whenever you need floor-to-ceiling privacy.

Energy Manager is a simple device you add to your Herman Miller systems furniture to improve its performance by saving electrical energy.

Energy Manager controls two of the four circuits of power in a cluster of workstations. When a person sits down to work, an occupancy sensor detects their presence and turns on the devices in the cluster plugged into those two circuits—task lights, printers, monitors, chargers, etc. When the cluster is unoccupied, the devices automatically turn off.

Extensive material choices and tile styles allow freedom of expression; recent additions expand Vivo's expressive qualities even further. All of which lets you create spaces that respond easily to today's needs—and tomorrow's.

Solving workplace problems is what we do. When sweeping changes were taking place, we realized it was time to re-solve some critical issues. The result was Resolve, a human-centered system that lets what's natural for people come naturally to the work environment. Its smart structure creates open, inviting, space-efficient workstations where people feel comfortable and connected. It creates the environment to suit your vision while using your resources effectively.

My Studio is your studio. It puts you at the center of your own work world. Designed around your needs for control, comfort, and privacy, My Studio helps you balance heads-down work with heads-up collaboration. It's a system that provides an environment where you can work individually and collectively in a variety of spaces, making the kinds of connections that lead to fresh perspectives and new ideas.

Ethos: a person's or group's character and guiding values. Ethospace lets you express in interior architecture what you or your organization is all about. Its dexterity and extensive product line help you define, and redefine, spaces to support all kinds of work and give your people exactly what they need. Sophisticated and technologically adept, with comprehensive options that make the most of planning possibilities.

Evolution and intelligent design. The original open-plan office system continues to change and adapt to the ongoing evolutions in today's workplaces. But some things should never change, and the fundamental Action Office design principles still apply: space-saving benefits, durability, design options, and interchangeable components. Action Office continues to provide economic value by virtue of simple specification, installation, configuration, management, and updating. This versatile, hard-working system truly preserves your investment.

Time magazine called it the Design of the Decade-a truly egalitarian chair designed to provide equal ergonomics for everyone. Equa 2 allows everyone in the office-regardless of status, work activities, or body type-to experience good ergonomic support and comfort.

Eames tandem sling seating serves millions of travelers every day and does it comfortably and reliably.

Designed for O'Hare International Airport in 1962, the sleek, contemporary design remains in style for all kinds of public transportation stations. Around the world, people find it a comfortable, inviting place to wait. And terminal operators appreciate its space-saving flexibility, durability, and easy maintenance.

Egg, ball, bagel. Bright, clear colors. Designer Denis Santachiara says, "I believe objects should always offer little surprises, something to talk about." Surprises? Wait until you see how comfortable these pieces are, and how perfect for breakout areas at work and chill-out areas at home. Something to talk about? There's a bagel on your floor!

Introduced in 1946, the Nelson platform bench remains a landmark of modern design. The clean, rectilinear lines reflect designer George Nelson's architectural background and his insistence on what he called "honest" design - making an honest visual statement about an object's purpose. The bench serves as a multipurpose display and resting place in offices, public areas, and homes.

James Bond might have sat on this sofa. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Twiggy in a micromini. The retro design of Mr. Nilsson is rooted in the very mod 1960s. Appearing to float in space, it delivers a contemporary, minimalist cool that makes an immediate statement. Whether placed in a reception, meeting, or waiting area—or at home—the sofa provides a level of comfort that matches its distinctive appearance.

The traditional sofa is a wooden frame covered with padding and upholstery.

Designer Mark Goetz turned that tradition inside out, wrapping his sofa in a striking molded wood veneer shell to create both a structural frame and a dramatic profile.

Crisp, clean lines and ergonomic support—an instant Herman Miller classic.

Why "compact" for a sofa that's six feet wide and seats three? The clean profile of the Eames sofa compact is perfectly scaled for spaces too small for a traditional sofa - in executive suites, lounges, and homes. But you lose none of the comfort associated with the word couch. Impact and seating space in a sleek, slender, minimalist piece of classic mid-century furniture.

With its emphasis on beautiful materials and simplified forms, the Eames sofa exemplifies the best in modern furniture design. Its angled profile and clean planes showcase a harmonious combination of rich walnut or teak, soft leather, and polished aluminum. Equally fitting for the contemporary home or office, it's a luxurious place to settle back and relax.

Celeste lounge chairs and sofas have a clean, contemporary look. With their compact scale and slender arms, they don't take over a space. They just look good in it while offering comfortable seating for casual meeting spaces, lounges, and reception areas. With their trim geometry and refined sense of proportion, Celeste chairs and sofas are at home in a variety of settings.