Don Chadwick

Air Date
December 19, 2009
When Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf designed the Aeron Chair for the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, they started from a purely personal standpoint. They set aside other styles and traditions and asked the simple question, "What would I most like to sit on?" A complete mastery of the furniture designer's tools and craft enabled them to arrive at the answer.

About the Innovator

Toshiko Mori Interview Transcript
Architect

Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials, and especially synthetic materials, in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance.

Why She Innovates

As an architect, Toshiko Mori has always taken a personal delight in discovering new properties and potentials in materials. Whether designing exhibitions, houses or institutional projects such as the Visitor Center for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, she enjoys a process that combines intuition with the rigor of research.

Toshiko Mori Interview Highlights Transcript

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Toshiko Mori

I would say every architect that I know is a philosopher on his or her own.

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Don Chadwick

5 Jan, 11:45 AM
When Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf designed the Aeron Chair for the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, they started from a purely personal standpoint. They set aside other styles and traditions and asked the simple question, "What would I most like to sit on?" A complete mastery of the furniture designer's tools and craft enabled them to arrive at the answer.