His Ergon chair, the first ergonomically designed piece of office furniture, revolutionized how we work–or at least our posture from 9 to 5–leading the way to the Aeron chair he co-designed and a raft of knockoffs. Minnesota-based designer Bill Stumpf passed away last week after complications during stomach surgery. Stumpf had a long history with the Walker, from a 1974 panel discussion as part of The Design Process at Herman Miller to his inclusion in the 1983-84 exhibition A Serious Chair to a 1998 reading of his book The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Restoring Civility and Other Lost Virtues to Everyday Life. Condolences to his family and friends…
Thank you for your wishes. Bill will be greatly missed. His influence and vision will continue to live on in his writings, lectures and products, as well as in our current and future work at the studio that he left behind. We hope to make him prouder than ever.
Best regards.
Comment by Stumpf, Weber + Associates, Inc. — 9/7/2006 @ 3:42 pm
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