Above Ground with Leon Ransmeier
In the segment entitled Above Ground Level with Leon Ransmeier, designer Ransmeier and photographer Geordie Wood explore the thinking behind the new AGL Table Group, as well as table design in general.
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| Leon Ransmeier in his Financial District studio hermanmiller.com |
About table design, Ransmeier observes that the comfort of a table is "specific in relation to our body proportions and the size of the chairs that we sit in. For example, the standard height for a dining table or desk is derived from its relationship to the chair, which is derived from the distance of your knees to the floor when you are in a seated position. So you could say that the height of a table has evolved out of the length of people’s shins."
He also examines Westerners' need for furniture...so great a need, in fact, that we will improvise to create a seat or a table out of anything near us.
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| Improvised tables in Chinatown (left) and the Staten Island Ferry (right) hermanmiller.com |
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| More improvised table from the Staten Island Ferry hermanmiller.com |
Ransmeier notes that even when no flat surface is available, we use our laps or our laptop computers as stand-ins and sit on anything that elevates us off the ground.
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| Working outside the New York Stock Exchange hermanmiller.com |
Photographer Geordie Wood captures a series of stark but beautiful surfaces in the Financial District.
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| Unconventional surfaces in the Financial District hermanmiller.com |
You can read the entire piece at the Herman Miller site. And for those of you who want to get a glimpse at the new AGL Table Group, which is so versatile that it can be used for dining, an executive desk or a conference table, take a look at these exciting images.
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| AGL Table Group mmminimal.com |
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| AGL Table Group mmminimal.com |
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| AGL Table Group, with pull-out tray and cleverly hidden power strip mmminimal.com |
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