Herman Miller is an American furniture company and a pioneer of modern design, headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan. It began in 1905 as the Star Furniture Company, a maker of traditional bedroom suites. It took the Herman Miller name in 1923, when D.J. De Pree and his father-in-law, Herman Miller, acquired a controlling stake. Under design director George Nelson, the company brought in Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and Alexander Girard, and that group produced mid-century icons such as the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottom...
