03-01-2016 DESIGN. What Made The Aeron Chair An Icon. A look back at Herman Miller’s game-changing task chair, on the day its designer, Bill Stumpf, would’ve turned 80. SHARE.

The newly designed Aeron chair Photo courtesy Herman Miller Design firm Herman Miller first launched its popular Aeron chair in 1994. Designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick replaced the foam and ...

In technology, design has to continually evolve to keep current. In furniture, not so much: Iconic pieces go to museums and get knocked off for decades. So it was with the Aeron chair, which, upon ...

Bill Stumpf, an industrial designer who was a pioneer in ergonomic seating and created with Don Chadwick the iconic Aeron office chair for Herman Miller Inc., has died. He was 70.

Bill Stumpf did not design the Aeron chair alone. He worked collaboratively with Los Angeles industrial designer, Don Chadwick. Both understood the value of collaboration, ...

The Aeron--born in a Santa Monica design studio--is one of the few pieces of office furniture recognized by name outside of the worlds of industrial designers and purchasing agents.

After the great dot-com bust of 2000, there was one lasting symbol of the crash: Herman Miller's Aeron chair. The ergonomic mesh-backed office chair was launched in 1994, at the start of the ...

Designed by acclaimed designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, the Aeron has been heralded as a breakthrough in office chair design. Rather than mask the hi-tech look of an ergonomic chair, the ...

But that all changed with the introduction of the Herman Miller Aeron chair in 1994, a story by New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell told in his book Blink. It was a marvel of industrial design.