Herman Miller Filing and Storage Suites - Brochure - Manual (Page 12)

Introduced by Herman Miller in 1950, Eames storage units trace their origin to an
exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts a year earlier. Leave it to designers Charles
and Ray Eames to see what others couldn’t: Why can’t storage pieces be striking
enough to belong in an art museum?
Today, Eames storage units are still turning heads as part of the Herman Miller
Collection—and still looking as distinctive as they did decades ago. They join classics,
like those from George Nelson, as well as contemporary pieces.
It’s storage that flat out looks like fun, as elegant as it is useful. That’s a different way
to think about the box—and that’s been Herman Miller’s way for years.
A heritage of going
beyond the box