Herman Miller blog: Lifework » best of green 2011 http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework Lifework Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 SAYL wins Treehugger’s Best of Green http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/sayl-wins-treehuggers-best-of-green/ http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/sayl-wins-treehuggers-best-of-green/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:28:35 +0000 Cerentha Harris http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=8435
Herman Miller’s SAYL chair won another green nod, this time in Treehugger’s annual Best of Green awards. It scooped the Design and Architecture category with 46% of the votes. Check out the other winners here. It’s heartening for us at Herman Miller to see our commitment to environment honored in this way. A big thank you to Treehugger and their readers!

]]> http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/sayl-wins-treehuggers-best-of-green/feed/ 0 Thank You Treehugger: SAYL Nominated for Green Design Award http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/thank-you-treehugger-sayl-nominated-for-green-design-award/ http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/thank-you-treehugger-sayl-nominated-for-green-design-award/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:54:38 +0000 Cerentha Harris http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/?p=8217
Treehugger has nominated our SAYL chair in this year’s Best of Green design awards. We are so thrilled to be included and hope all you Lifework readers will head over to vote for Yves Behar’s awesome design. And just in case you were wondering how green that work chair really is check this out. At the heart of Yves’ design is the idea of eco-dematerialization. That’s a fancy way of saying 93 percent of the chair is recyclable. Structural components are hollowed out, reducing weight and volume. The ArcSpan, arm structure, and tilt mechanism are all fused into a single strong part that also reduces the chair’s weight. I love that Treehugger describes the chair, which retails for $399, as the green IKEA-killer!

Above: Core 77 did a great interview with Herman Miller’s Jack Schreur and Yves Behar on the evolution of SAYL.

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