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Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

“The process is as important as the results: It’s the individual employees on the line that are suggesting these improvements. At Herman Miller, they average 1,200 “plan-do-check acts”–that is, little proposed changes to the assembly process–ever year. “The biggest thing is to empower people to change the work in ways that matter to them,” says Eric VanDam, Herman Miller’s director of operations in seating” from fast co design: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669397/an-american-made-miracle-how-an-aeron-chair-gets-built-every-17-seconds picture and video by Drew Anthony Smith/Fast Company

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Making of M3 Chair by Thomas Feichtner

On the occasion of the Vienna Design Week 2011 the Neue Wiener Werkstätte will be showing an installation featuring the M3 Chair developed specifically for this exhibition by Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner. This unique object will be juxtaposed with the mass-produced FX10 Lounge Chair, an earlier work by Feichtner which has since become a classic of Austrian design. While the two pieces of furniture share a basic structure that is geometric in character, the M3 chair differs from the closed-body lounge chair by virtue of its open wooden cantilever construction.…

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vistoe-dieter rams shelves assembly

Want a glimpse behind-the-scenes at Vitsœ’s London workshop? We invited in a camera crew to make this film, which is narrated entirely by workshop staff. You’ll see the machinery we use to assemble and pack orders as well as the individuals who put their names to each package. Directed by: Jared Schiller http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/made-by-britain

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