A poster on a beige background of multi-seated sofas, starting with a purple single seat armchair. Cascading away from the viewer are a blue love seat, green three-seater, and yellow, orange,and red.four seating sofas.

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Object Timeline

1976	Work on this object began.
1981	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2016	We photographed this object.
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Poster, Modular Sofa Group

This is a Poster. It was from the office of Herman Miller Furniture Company. It is dated 1976 and we acquired it in 1981. Its medium is offset lithograph on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Nicknamed the Chiclet, after the candy-coated gum, this modular sofa group’s components could be taken apart, rearranged, interspersed with table pieces, and screwed back together using a simple Allen wrench. In this poster, the rainbow of colors serves as a shorthand for consumer choice and customization. In reality, these upholstered pieces were offered in an even greater array of fabrics and colors than those shown, including the option for clients to specify their own fabric.

It is credited Gift of Various Donors.

Poster, Aeron Chair
digital print and screenprint on paper.
Gift of Herman Miller.
2014-19-1

A one piece orange chair sitting on the floor in the form of the front of a tongue on both the back and lower segment. The curvaceous structure resembles a wavelength where the trough functions as the seat and the crest buttresses the knees and is lower than the back. The photograph captures a ¾ view enabling the viewer to see the front, side and top of the chair against a light gray ground with shadows.

Object ID #420556915
tubular steel, rubber, foam rubber, nylon (upholstery).
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2018-22-95

Its dimensions are

57.7 x 89.7 cm (22 11/16 x 35 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Printed in black ink, upper right: [logo] herman miller modular sofa group designed by ray wilkes

Cite this object as

Poster, Modular Sofa Group; Office of Herman Miller Furniture Company (United States); USA; offset lithograph on paper; 57.7 x 89.7 cm (22 11/16 x 35 5/16 in.); Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-415

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dqtk/
Accession Number 1981-29-415
Object ID 18617961