Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

Get a glimpse at what we’ve been reading this week.

1. A look at the conservation of the Eames Case Study House from the Los Angeles Times.

2. Richard Schlesinger’s recent visit to Herman Miller for “CBS Sunday Morning.”

3. “A Visual History of Michigan’s Outsize Influence on American Modernism” via the Atlantic Cities.

4. The clean, minimal design of the Richardson / Dondoe Loft by Workshop for Construction featured at Plastolux.

5. Dexigner’s spotlight on Sam Hecht and Kim Colin’s new Wireframe Sofa Group.

6. “The Transparent Office” (penned by Tracy Brower, Herman Miller’s Director of Performance Environments) at the Drucker Exchange.

7. More from our team: “Sitting on Big Data: The Evolution of the Mobile Workplace” contributed to Wired.com by Ryan Anderson, Herman Miller’s Director of Future Technology.

8. This tour of New York City’s Milk Studios at Domaine.

9. The “Tower House,” a must-see tree house in the Catskill Mountains designed by Gluck+, spotted by DesignTAXI.

10. News of our reintroduction of the Eames Molded Plastic Chair in a greener fiberglass at Gizmodo.

Photo: Daniel Goncalves / Fotobia

The Studio of “Coast Modern” Filmmaker Gavin Froome

Six years ago, Gavin Froome set out with friend Mike Bernard to explore the Pacific Northwest coastline — and its legacy of modernist architecture. The result is “Coast Modern,” an independent documentary that’s been featured in festivals across the globe and is about to show again on June 4 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Between touring for the film and his work as a freelance art director and music producer, he showed us around his bright, clean-lined Vancouver studio. Read more

Above the High Line: Celebrating NY Design Week 2013

For this year’s New York Design Week, Herman Miller raised a toast — and gave special guests a glimpse of upcoming designs — at the High Line room of the Standard in downtown Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Read more

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

Take a look at our favorite posts from the past seven days.

1. Architect Loïc Picquet’s simple, streamlined renovation of this rural guesthouse in the Alsace region of France (via Dezeen).

2. Design*Sponge’s tour through photographer and blogger Jessie Webster’s home in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

3. “Architecture on Repeat: Hypnotic Photos of Seaside Façades” at Architizer.

4. California Museum’s Pinterest page dedicated to its “Ray Eames: A Century of Modern Design” exhibition.

5. Design Milk’s look at the first residential design project — a joining of two neighboring properties into one family home — by London-based design studio Bureau de Change.

6. The impressive collection of Eames Aluminum Group Executive Chairs in the new Infor headquarters in NYC designed by VOA (via Contemporist).

7. The compact and cool Sydney apartment by designer Nicholas Gurney featured at Desire to Inspire.

8. “Elevator B,” an urban habitat for a colony of honeybees designed by architecture students from the University at Buffalo, at eVolo. (Learn why bees are near and dear to Herman Miller in this video.)

9. The 25th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair begins tomorrow and runs through Tuesday the 21st in New York City. Get details here.

10. Did you commute today via bicycle for Bike to Work Day? If you’re still dreaming of riding two wheels to the office, here’s the top 10 places to do so, according to Co.Exist.

Featured in photo: Nelson Pedestal Table by George Nelson

Bikes in the Office

Warmer weather delivers a few extra excuses for breaking out a bicycle for your work commute — or for just taking a break during a long day in your home office. In honor of tomorrow’s Bike to Work Day, here’s how a few work spaces accommodate the larger, sometimes unwieldy bodies of bicycles into their interior design (something we know a little bit about here at Herman Miller). Read more

Workspace Tour: Photographer Christy Cassano-Meyer & Web Developer Kyle Meyer

The shared home office of photographer Christy Cassano-Meyer and web developer Kyle Meyer is a charming blend of vintage and modern style. Take a look through their creative space in Portland, Oregon, in this tour led by Christy’s words and photographic eye. Read more

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

Here is a look at what we’ve been bookmarking this week.

1. NYCxDESIGN, New York City’s inaugural event to showcase and promote design of all disciplines, starts today and runs through May 21.

2. “12 Homes Made from Shipping Containers” at Design Milk.

3. This piece on the power of co-working spaces by the New York Times.

4. Esoteric Survey’s post on photos of the Eames House from the Aline and Eero Saarinen Papers.

5. Dexinger’s look at our new Mirra 2 work chair by Studio 7.5.

6. This mid-century modern home in Phoenix, Arizona, renovated by John P. Twigg and Steve Watson at Plastolux.

7. The light-filled Berlin home by architectural firm + Quehl Miethe featured at automatism.

8. Inthralld’s look at the loft that houses boutique billboard company Prince Media Co. in New York City.

9. Info on “Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America,” an exhibit beginning June 14 at Cranbrook Art Museum, on Dwell.com.

10. Another not-to-be-missed exhibition: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s retrospective show at Les Arts Decoratif in Paris beginning September 1. Details at It’s Nice That.

Featured in photo: Osso Chair by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Studio Tour: Artist Will Bryant

How much creativity can be produced within one co-working space? Plenty, if you consider that this personality-packed workspace — courtesy of illustrator, art director, and artist Will Bryant — is within a stone’s throw of the desk of Kate Bingaman-Burt, an illustrator who gave us a look around her office digs just last month. Get a new perspective on their shared studio (also the headquarters for three other illustrators/designers) in this newest tour from Portland, Oregon. Read more

The Innovative Studio of Web Designer & Developer Brad Cerasani

He may be a full-time web designer and developer, but one look at the home workspace of Brad Cerasani and you know he’s also got music in his blood. In fact, the owner of the web shop Shedbot has written, recorded, and produced two albums with a trio called Hoist from his Winnipeg, Manitoba-based studio. Get a look at the high-tech haven in this latest tour. Read more

Top Ten: Best of the Web This Week

Take a look at what’s on our radar this week.

1. Beautiful photography of modern interiors captured by Michael Wells via Plastolux.

2. This interview with brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec on the Magis Facebook page.

3. Impressed by the launch of the new home decor site Domaine (and glad to see its love for Charles and Ray Eames).

4. Inspired by clue #4 in our “Everywhere in Your Day” contest: “Insane Photos Snapped From Kites” from Architizer.

5. “Brilliant Words of Advice from 14 Great Graphic Designers” (including Charles Eames) via Co.Design.

6. Contemporist’s feature on the simple elegance of Casa Sulla Morella by Studio Cittaarchitettura in Castelnovo di Sotto, Italy.

7. The fluorescent shades of green, yellow, and blue in this sports hall design in the Netherlands by Slangen + Koenis Architects (via Dezeen).

8. “Bold, punchy, in-your-face sculptures” by artist Matt W. Moore featured at It’s Nice That.

9. Interior Design‘s look back at the ”greatest hits” of Maharam, the textile company recently acquired by Herman Miller.

10. Don’t forget: May 5 is the last day to enter for a chance to win in our “Everywhere in Your Day” contest. Click here to find out more.

Featured in photo: Eames Desk Unit, Eames Storage Unit, and Eames Molded Plastic Chair by Charles and Ray Eames