Crisp autumn air? Scarves and mittens? Holiday decor hits storefront windows? Hot tea and crackling fires? yah, yah, it’s all good, but what’s great about this time of year? Herman Miller is on SALE!
Today until December 12th, Herman Miller products are 15% off. Now that’s something to drink tea to.
Herman Miller is a canon of authentic mid century modern design – reproducing the greats: Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Isamu Noguchi. The design house also commissions and manufactures contemporary designs from an array of talent including Yves Behar, the designer behind Herman Miller’s most recent office chair SAYL. They are also, of course, the name behind the infamous Aeron chair. They sign their name to the groundbreaking Embody chair and continue to push boundaries in the area of contemporary ergonomic office design each and every day.
Platform Bench by George Nelson for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
Noguchi Table by Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
SAYL side chair by Yves Behar for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
Aeron Chair by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick - photo: hermanmiller.com
Embody Chair by Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
The newest addition to the Herman Miller line up is a partnership with Italian design company Magis.
This line carries products for indoor and outdoor and is committed to technology innovation, working with top designers from all over the world. Magis brings a breath of fresh air to an already impressive and dynamic selection of products in the Herman Miller portfolio. The best part? Magis products are also on SALE until December 12th!
Shop the sale for Magis by Herman Miller on our website, here.
Shop the sale for other great Herman Miller products on our website, here.
Fix Healthcare, located in the Atrium building at 805 Johnson St., Victoria BC, offers an impressive range of services and is also a feast for the eyes. Featuring the new SAYL Chair by Yves Behar for Herman Miller, Fix’s reception room is bright, modern, comfortable, and ergonomic to boot.
Other Gabriel Ross pieces in the space include an Alvar Aalto side table with black lacquer surfaces and Aalto’s signature bent wood frame. This is the perfect compliment to Fix’s wood striped accent wall and reception area.
George Nelson’s bench for Herman Miller with black legs and slotted wood top also makes an appearance, and of course, ties in perfectly.
SAYL, Herman Miller’s latest ergonomic office furniture marvel, is offered as a side chair (as shown above) and also an office/task chair. Read our previous blog about SAYL and Yves Behar’s collaboration with Herman Miller, here. As a side chair, SAYL is unique and intriguing upon first glance, and an incredibly comfortable and supportive sitting experience.
This chair makes perfect sense when paired with a contemporary healthcare facility offering such a wide array of services and classes including acupuncture, chiropractic, physiotherapy, massage therapy, pilates and yoga.
Our thanks to Fix for supporting authentic design and providing such a valuable service to Victoria’s downtown core. We wish them the best of luck!
visit Fix’s website, here.
see the SAYL chair at gabrielross.com, here.
see the Nelson bench at gabrielross.com, here.
see other Alvar Aalto designs at gabrielross.com, here.
Whether you are leaving a note for your roommate, displaying your neice’s kindergarten artwork or making a grocery list, this product does it all. “Chat-Board” is the newest line to Gabriel Ross and we are really excited to have it. Founded in 2003, Chat Boards are a modern Danish re-design of the traditional wipe board. Combining decoration and function, these magnetic glass panels also serve as a bulletin board. Chat Boards are made to suit corporate offices and private homes alike, boasting a wide variety of colours and sizes.
image source: chat-board.dk
Chat-Board, Lavender - image source: chat-board.dk NOTE: Actual Marker and magnets differ from what's shown in this image.
We just installed three boards in our showroom in different sizes in red, white and rose. The chrome magnets are super strong and able to hold some serious note paper. Also, the markers wipe off easily with either the eraser brush or just a cloth rag. Because these boards are made of glass, you can clean them just as you would glass – with window cleaner. These certainly won’t stain and show ghost images of previous board meetings in a few months like the standard wipe board.
Chat-Boards in our Showroom
For more details, or to order your own Chat-Board, visit our website, www.gabrielross.com
Check out Chat-Boards website, here.
That time is coming up again and we’re stocking the shelves in preparation of this June’s Herman Miller authorized 15% off sale. Herman Miller is the design house behind the infamous Aeron task chair and boasts the reproduction licenses to an impressive collection of mid century modern classics such as the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Noguchi coffee table, and George Nelson’s Marshmallow Sofa.
Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller
Noguchi Table by Isamu Noguchi for Herman Miller
Marshmallow Sofa by George Nelson for Herman Miller
The sale runs from June 3 – 13 and includes the classics, ergonomic office furniture, and accessories. Also included in the sale is the new “Envelop” desk: an ergo-desk that adjusts to its user’s sitting position (read our previous blog post on “Envelop”, including a neat-o video, here).
Envelop Desk by Bill Sumpf and Jeff Weber for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
If you have been considering a Herman Miller purchase, now is the time to buy. Considering the current strength of our Canadian dollar (woot!), plus the 15% discount, you really can’t go wrong. Plus, an investment in Herman Miller is an investment in authentic design reproduction with integrity that lasts a lifetime (and then some!). For more information on design authenticity, check out Herman Miller’s website, here.
Check out our website for all of Herman Miller’s amazing product line, here.
Questions? Contact us, here, leave us a comment on our blog, follow us on Twitter @GabrielRossShop, or visit our Facebook Fan Page, here.
Sofa Compact by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
Designed in1954, the Sofa Compact was an adaptation from a built in sofa that Charles and Ray Eames designed for their own home in the 1940′s. The freestanding version has been in production since 1954 without interruption. Although the original intent for this piece was probably to have it work for smaller constricted spaces, this sofa is beautiful in any modern interior with an aim for spaciousness and clean lines.
photo: hermanmiller.com
photo: hermanmiller.com
Herman Miller offers a large array of upholstery options for the Sofa Compact that vary from tight/smooth commercial weaves to lush felted wools such as Kvadrat’s Divina Melange. Depending on your fabric choice, this sofa works well in various spaces including commercial settings and office waiting rooms, to cozy apartment living rooms. Parking lots too …
photo: hermanmiller.com
photo: hermanmiller.com
View the Sofa Compact on our website, here.
Read more about the design story on Herman Miller’s website, here.
Herman Miller’s new office chair, SAYL by Yves Behar, has finally arrived at Gabriel Ross. We receivied our stock last week and the chair exceeded our expectations in comfort and appearance. Although we have only received stock of the Basic black version for now, there is more stock on the way soon in the Fully Loaded and Executive models.
Click here to read our original post on the SAYL chair. The Basic model that we now have in stock retails for only $448.00 – a significant triumph for Herman Miller and Behar’s hopes to create a well designed and fully functioning office chair that is accessible to a wider audience. Click here to purchase yours now.
SAYL’s webbed back is part of the “unframed” design – providing full flexibility and movement for the user. “Less is more” seems to be the mantra for this chair – it’s extremely comfortable AND feels supportive at the same time.
This month, Herman Miller launched its latest addition to an already monster collection of exceptional task chairs. At a price point starting out well below the infamous Aeron and most recent Embody chairs, “SAYL”, by Yves Behar, is accessible to a wider consumer scope. True to Herman Miller’s reputation, top notch design and function did not suffer as a result of the attractive price tag. This chair is lovely to look at: sculpturally impressive with a minimal approach and boasts the ergonomics that this design house is famous for.
SAYL by Yves Behar for Herman Miller
SAYL
Here’s Herman Miller’s product story on SAYL:
People at their best live unframed, going beyond expectations to surprise and delight us. With SAYL, we set out to design and build a chair family that gives form to that spirit. Inspired by the principles of suspension bridges, the frameless back of the SAYL work chair encourages a full range of movement while the suspension back material keeps you cool—all with an extremely small environmental impact. It is everything a Herman Miller chair should be. At a very attainable price.
Inspired by San Fransisco’s Golden Gate bridge, SAYL is available in several colour combinations including neutral tones and some bright accent colours, making it appropriate for various settings.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Fransisco
Read more about the design story on Herman Miller’s site here.
A state-of-the-art technology mixed with excellent design. The designer Sandy Chilewich is passionate about research, experimenting with fibres and a fascination for textiles, and has oodles of experience.The development of woven Plynyl®, a newly introduced material, which is both water- and stain-resistant, is one of her best inventions. She uses Plynyl® in particular for table mats and for floor mats that are well-designed, sophisticated and above all, practical. With Chilewich, your household will be truly revolutionary!
Does the world need another chair? Certainly that’s a reasonable question to ask when the planet is already populated by hundreds, if not thousands, of different chairs—chairs for working, dining, relaxing, playing, napping, waiting, or, even, admiring—some are a wonder to behold but awkward to sit in and some are so comfortable that one is reluctant to get up again.
That legacy continues today, as seen in this latest release by Knoll™, and their collaboration with Formway Design, the Wellington, New Zealand-based collaborative. It’s not a chair. It’s a movement. Introducing Generation by Knoll™. The first chair that lets you sit how you want. The Generation chair offers a new standard of comfort and unrestrained movement, supporting the range of postures and work styles typical of today’s workplace. Discover how Generation’s flexing and supportive features enable individual expression, and explore how this revolutionary work chair reflects our commitment to environmental sustainability.
It’s worth noting that the concept of seating that moves as you move was not entirely new. In fact, one could argue that the bean bag chair of the 1960s, which quickly became a ubiquitous symbol of hippie informality, could be considered a forerunner of Generation by Knoll: each time the user shifts position on the bean bag chair, the “beans” (actually polystyrene beads) rearrange themselves to support you—comfort is entirely a result of automatic responsiveness. For Knoll, it was time to take this idea of elastic design—where the product rearranges itself in response to its user—to a new level.
