Systems furniture is a generic term for bundles of panels, worksurfaces, shelves, and other items sold by a single manufacturer as a package for furnishing offices. Cubicles and the sea of cubicles are the item most often associated with systems furniture, but other open plan arrangements such as office landscape are possible.
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... Miller company is usually credited with inventing systems furniture ... His original system named Action Office was quickly copied by other companies ... Although these systems were not originally intended to compress office workers to maximum density, they were quickly adapted to that purpose ...
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“A daughter of Eve ... had better be fifty leagues off—or in her warm bed—or playing with a case-knife—or any thing you please—than make a man the object of her attention, when the house and all the furniture is her own.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“No civilization ... would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.”
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