Envelop Desk
by Herman Miller
Herman Miller® Envelop® Desk
Surround yourself with the latest tour de force from Herman Miller, the ingenious Envelop desk. Using your two hands in one quick movement, you simply manipulate the top of the desk to accommodate your posture, from upright to reclined. By way of Envelop, you keep your work at the same visual distance from you at all times and your forearms are completely supported whether you're tasking, texting or playing a game. When you're seated in a Herman Miller Embody chair, or another high-performance ergonomic chair, like a Herman Miller Aeron or Mirra chair, you'll have complete postural freedom. To prevent eye strain and keep the Envelop desk clear, Herman Miller has also introduced a single or dual monitor arm, as explained fully within the description tab above.
Herman Miller® Envelop® Desk
Envelop has been designed to fit in wherever you need it to be — as a freestanding desk at home or in an office, or within a systems environment. Its clean, trim aesthetic works harmoniously into any design.The desk measures 30 by 45 inches and expands to 37 by 45 inches when fully extended. It sits on two open legs, which are pin height adjustable in 1-inch increments. Available with glides or four locking casters. Total height adjustment range with casters: 5 inches (27 ½ to 32 ½ inches). Total height adjustment range with glides: 6 inches (25 ½ to 31 ½ inches).
Envelop Monitor Arms: To complement Envelop, Herman Miller is introducing a single and dual monitor arm. These arms holds a 7 to 20-pound flat panel monitor with an LCD size of 24" or less and clamps to the desktop surface. Each arm has a 22 1/2" extension range, 160 degree monitor pan, 80 degree tilt, and 90 degree monitor rotation. The surface clamp allows for 12 3/4" height adjustment along the mounting post, and the lift assist option provides an additional 13" of height adjustment at the monitor. Cables are hidden along the underside of the arm, to help keep the desk clean.
Dimensions: Herman Miller® Envelop® Desk
Herman Miller History
At Herman Miller, design starts with the person - the products and how to apply them follow. Their goal is to enable individuals to live and work at their most safe, effective and motivated levels. Their furniture creates health-positive environments that go beyond “fitting” people to their equipment, to actually helping them thrive.
Founded in 1923 and recognized today throughout the world as an innovator in office and residential furniture design, Herman Miller has been ranked since 1986 among the top ten in Fortune Magazine’s annual list of the 500 most admired companies.
In the 1970s, Herman Miller was deep into research in the field of office ergonomics and work seating and challenged designer Bill Stumpf to rethink traditional designs of office chairs. Ten years of research produced the award-winning Ergon chair in 1976. Building upon what they had learned, Stumpf, in collaboration with designer, Don Chadwick, created the Equa chair in 1984 and began working in the early 1990s on a design for the world’s most comfortable office chair. Keeping in mind Charles Eames’ point that chairs should be designed for how people sit rather than how they should sit, they set about designing a chair that would: (1) Promote the health of the person sitting in it (2) Move and adjust as simply as possible (3) Support a person in any position (4) Really fit large or small people (5) Be environmentally responsible. In 1994, Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf introduced their new office chair called Aeron (derived from the word aeration, which describes how the mesh suspension promotes comfort), which became an immediate worldwide success and earned a spot in the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as well.
In 1933, new furniture designs created by Herman Miller designer Gilbert Rohde exhibiting the smooth lines and unembellished shapes of the emerging mid-century modern furniture style were exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair. In 1944, Rohde’s successor George Nelson designed such enduring icons as the Platform bench, and was famously responsible for teaming the company with such influential design artists as Alexander Girard, Isamu Noguchi and Charles and Ray Eames. Their famous partnership with Herman Miller produced an incredible, innovative body of work, from the iconic Eames Lounge chair and ottoman, to the Aluminum Group, to the Eames Plywood lounge and dining chairs.
Today, Herman Miller continues to attract world-famous designers like Jeff Weber, Jerome Caruso, the Studio 7.5 Design Team in Berlin, Yves Behar, Mark Goetz and many more. Herman Miller’s pioneering research into producing environmentally responsible furniture has earned them GreenGuard Indoor Air Quality certification for most of their products. Aesthetically, many of Herman Miller’s iconic designs, particularly from the 1940s and 1950s, are valuable collector’s items and on permanent display in museums such as the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Smithsonian Institution.
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