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Balans Femini by Westnofa Workshop and Eames DCW & DAR, as seen at Modern Design at GRAM: 20th Century Furniture
Designer | 04.08.2016

Grand Rapids Art Museum presents Modern Design at GRAM: 20th Century Furniture

"Does the world really need ever more chairs?", is arguably the question we are most regularly asked. Alongside, "What do you actually do all day?" The answer to the second question depends on who posed it, in how far we hope to impress them or in how far we fear they may stop us doing what we do were they to discover what that actually is. The answer to the first question is "Yes" Or "Yes, if the new chair represents an advance over existing chairs" A chair being not something you sit on,

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Limerick Chair by Tom Newhouse for Herman Miller (Photo © and courtesy Herman Miller)
Designer | 14.07.2016

smow Blog Interview: Tom Newhouse - aesthetics, sustainability, ergonomics and economy must be in equilibrium, if they aren't the design isn't finished

Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a town famous for some 150 years as a, if not the, centre of American furniture production, it is perhaps not surprising that Tom Newhouse choose to pursue a career in furniture design. Upon graduating in 1972 from the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Tom Newhouse took up a position as a staff designer with Herman Miller, a situation he himself refers to as a "marvellous beginning", before in 1978 he established his

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