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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...
...Diffrient's furniture system consists of a number of components that can be put together to suit the individual tasks, comfort and predilections of every worker in today's automated office. Surfaces can be lifted or lowered, tilted or joined every which way; adjustable video supports, telephone holders, In and Out baskets, bookshelves, copyholders and other accessories can be readily attached. Says Diffrient: "We set out to design an office furniture system that fits everyone who uses it-from the shortest woman to the tallest man-like their clothes or shoes...
...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...