My last 'employer' worked on worked out of his house, so we were trapped in
the home for about a year. It couldn't have been any more wonderful! His
home was a Frank-Lloyd/Geary 66' home in Silverlake, CA. The home is made
entirely of concrete, brick, glass and steel. The colors scheme for the home
is red and teal. It was so intense. You enter on the top floor go down the
spiral staircase (whose handrail also serves as the drainage system for the
roof) and watch the waterfall flow through the center of the staircase. They
built one wall built into the hill and the three other walls were made
completely of glass. But the most interesting part of the home was the fact
that the entire 2nd floor was rigged on a pulley system that raised and
lowered the three walls of glass, converting the second floor (kitchen,
dinning room, lounge and atrium) into an outside patio. Brilliant!
The owner was a mod from toronto in the 80's and had great taste...(bit of a
jerk but great taste)...all high end vintage gear. Glassware, furniture,
through rugs, everything was EXTREMELY HIGH END VINTAGE...it was a pleasure
to go to work...
now my office is so drab...same old white oak hard wood floors...ikea
crap...
yeah
sure
soul 'welcome to my world' fire
>
>Golly, Dan, come over to the new Gateway building - there's tons of the
>real
>Aerons, one of which my butt is sitting on, right now as I write this! :o)
>This is the new building I'm in, and all the waiting room and lunch room
>furniture is Herman Miller - I don't know any of the particular design
>names, (save for this chair) but I was pleasantly surprised to see it all
>as
>being very late-60's modular airport-terminal looking, much to the dismay
>of nearly all my co-workers. I have heard every complaint in the book,
>from
>it looking "outdated" (!) to plain old "ugly". When I pipe up that I like
>it, they usually look me up and down and say "you would." If I point out
>"but it's a Herman Miller!" I am met with blank stares. Oh well. We also
>have completely mirrored elevators and dizzying brown and tan checkered
>carpet - quite unnerving first thing in the morning. Ugh.
>----------
> >From: Dan Grothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Office mods
> >Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2000, 9:41 AM
> >
>
> >
> >> It's a landmark day for me in my crummy cubicled office job! My
>usually
> >> frugal employer has made it official that our new standard office chair
> >> will be the Herman Miller Aeron desk chair, and plans to replace all of
>our
> >> chairs within the next 60 days! Actually, the company we're merging
>with
> >> has been using them for the last year, so I guess this is one of the
>perks
> >> of the merger.
> >>
> >> I'm sure those of you into design will be rejoicing right along with
>me!
> >>
> >
> >Wow! A woman I went to school with now works for Bill Stumpf (Aeron
> >designer) and I've been trying, to no avail, to get her to grab me one.
>I
> >figure the guy must have a few dozen just laying about the shop, right?
> >
> >We have the discount Aeron in the conference rooms here and the
>principals
> >have the real Aerons at their desks. The rest of us, sadly, just have
>the
> >standard discount office chair. One day, mayhaps...one day.
> >
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