A Century of Changes In Office Furniture

In our space experience and life experience, the relationship between furniture and people is the closest, and it is also an object that embodies the times and development, culture and emotion.

 

Looking around the development history of human civilization, furniture has been formed for nearly a thousand years. Under the influence of mechanization after the Industrial Revolution, the vigorous development period of furniture is a matter of nearly two hundred years. The gradual formation of office buildings and offices has created a good opportunity for the development of office furniture.

 

The development of office furniture

 

From individual independent office to open office;

 

From individual work to teamwork;

 

From fixed seating to mobile offices;

 

From craftsmanship to mechanical wholesale;

 

From traditional furniture to systematic furniture;

 

All these changes have had a great impact on the design of office furniture. The advent of the new century has provided more diversified thinking for the office furniture industry, subverting the thinking mode of traditional office furniture, and making the future more imaginative and development space.

 

Gradual changes in office layout and furnishings through photos

 

This photo was taken at the Procter & Gamble office in 1892, with staff working at double-sided desks.

 

 

The "Future Office" with the "Flying Chair" at the Berlin Office Equipment Exhibition, circa 1930.

 

 

Open-plan office, circa 1935.

 

 

The Monsanto Laboratory Building in St. Louis, Michigan, 1958, with an office layout designed by the design firm Holabird & Root.

 

 

By 1955, open-plan offices were still common, and workers in the United States could have larger office spaces.

 

 

The birth of the office partition in the 1990s, the office open area is flexibly composed of office screens and desks that can be combined at will.

 

 

And today's "post-cubby era" offices are completely open-plan workstations. Inspired by the change in the way people work, there are no screens or only low screens between the desks, creating a more convenient working environment for employees to communicate.

 

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