15 Herman Miller Projects That Have Changed Our Way of Living

Yet even before Herman Miller began emphasizing their textiles, the company was working with graphic design and incorporated bold, abstract shapes into their newly refreshed showrooms across the country. The abstract forms see on the column in this Herman Miller showroom in Chicago in 1949 represented the four furniture designers (Isamu Noguchi, George Nelson, Charles Eames, and Paul Laszlo), with the curved, abstract "M" at the bottom emerging as the Herman Miller logo in the 1940s. (Herman Miller Chicago showroom designed by George Nelson & Co., 1949.)