Word: diffrient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble with some chairs today, says Industrial Designer Niels Diffrient, is that they "look as though the designer never saw a human body." Diffrient has come up with an innovative, adjustable lounge chair engineered on anatomic rather than aesthetic principles. The top of a radically new furniture line designed by Diffrient for computer-age offices, the chair will be introduced on the market next spring by the U.S. manufacturer SunarHauserman. Probable price, including accessories: around...
...riverside picnics and in the bar of the Jerome Hotel, the conference has become an institution, a sort of Academy. Students and young practitioners come with their cameras and tape recorders, spouses and babies; besides sitting at the feet of such design luminaries as Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Niels Diffrient, Milton Glaser and George Nelson, they turn the Academy into a happening, flying kites, making music of all kinds and building weird experimental structures. At an altitude of 8,000 ft., some of the proceedings tend to soar into the wild blue yonder...