Herman Miller Swoop Lounge Furniture - Environmental Product Summary - Manual

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Environmental Product Summary
Swoop ™ Lounge Furniture
Design Story: Swoop Lounge Furniture
Designer Brian Kane created Swoop lounge furniture
based on the needs he observed in public seating
areas. He realized that people don’t sit in traditional
ways—they occupy their seating environment with a
variety of postures. This led him to design a versatile
and fluid lounge seating and table solution that
supports the ways people sit and move.
Swoop offers a different kind of lounge seating
construction. Its sweeping curves and modular
components provide multiple configuration options
for variety of spaces—large or small, individual or
group. The result is a comfortable and inviting seating
solution for areas where people learn, meet, and work.
Freestanding tables round out the collection and can
function as desks or stools. The square box table is
available with power access to accommodate technology
needs. Traditional lounge furniture inhibits movement.
Swoop encourages it. Swoop takes the edge off
lounge furniture.
Herman Miller’s Design Protocol
Our commitment to corporate sustainability naturally
includes minimizing the environmental impact of each
of our products. Our Design for Environment team (DfE)
applies environmentally sensitive design standards to
both new and existing Herman Miller products.
The DfE Design Protocol goes beyond regulatory
compliance to thoroughly evaluate new product
designs in four key areas:
• Material Chemistry and Safety of Inputs—
What chemicals are in the materials we specify, and
are they the safest available?
• Disassembly—Can we take products apart at the
end of their useful life, to recycle their materials?
• Recyclability—Do the materials contain recycled
content, and more importantly, can the materials be
recycled at the end of the product’s useful life?
• LCA—Have we optimized the product based on the
entire life cycle?
Material Content
Swoop’s components are constructed from wood, steel,
plastic, foam, textile and other materials.
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WOOD 78%
FOAM 6%
TEXTILE 7%
PLASTIC 5%
STEEL 2%
OTHER 2%
WOOD 79%
TEXTILE 5%
FOAM 6%
PLASTIC 5%
STEEL 2%
OTHER 3%