Designed by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick, the ergonomic Herman Miller Aeron chair has seeped into our popular culture and has become the archetype of professional influence and power in the work place. Featured on American television shows, in big-screen films, in best-selling books, and even in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Aeron chair is undoubtedly a modern masterpiece to be marveled. Here are 10 places the Aeron chair can be spotted.
Medical genius Dr. Gregory House on the award-winning Fox Network television series “House” has an Aeron chair in his hospital office.
God is sitting at his desk in an Aeron chair on the animated television series “The Simpsons” in the episode entitled “Thank God It’s Doomsday.”
Claudia Jean Cregg, The White House Press Secretary on the NBC television show “The West Wing,” is frequently shown in her office sitting on a Herman Miller Aeron chair.
In the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning television series “24” on the Fox Network, every desk in the Counter Terrorist Unit (a fictional U.S. government anti-terrorist agency in Washington, D.C.) is paired with an Aeron chair.
In an episode about “chair envy,” The Aeron chair was featured on the Emmy Winning and Golden Globe Nominated NBC television sitcom “Will and Grace.”
The Aeron chair is seen in the New York office of Dunder Mifflin in Season 2 of the hit NBC television series “The Office.”
In the 2006 spy film “Casino Royale,” the character M, played by Judi Dench, has an Aeron chair at her desk.
In the 2004 psychological thriller film “Hard Candy,” the character Jeff Kohlver, played by Patrick Wilson, sits at his desk in an Aeron chair by Herman Miller.
The Aeron chair makes an appearance in the 2006 film “Keeping Up with the Steins” about a wealthy Jewish planning their son's Bar Mitzvah.
Author Malcolm Gladwell references Herman Miller’s Aeron chair in his 2005 book called “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” about our ability to use instinct. Gladwell writes how the Herman Miller team followed their instincts for modernization, rather than becoming discouraged by negative first impressions of the Aeron chair, and by doing so, created the company’s best selling office chair. Gladwell says, “What was once ugly has become beautiful.”
