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...This is not quite the revival of the cubicle, created in the 1960s by Robert Propst at design company Herman Miller....
...Propst then watched in horror as his ideas were corrupted into cheap modular dividers, and then to cubicle farms or, as Propst described them, “barren, rathole places”....
...Both Mr Propst and Mr Maher said they’ve been in frequent contact over the past month with regulators at the Fed and elsewhere....
...Herman Miller responded to these ideas in the 1960s with the “Action Office” by designers George Nelson and Robert Propst, but this pioneering work somehow mutated into the inaction office of the constraining...
...The most radical attempt to free the office worker was made in the early 1960s by Robert Propst, an excitable inventor who set about designing furniture that was inspired by the new idea of the “knowledge...
...Then, in the 1960s, an industrial designer called Robert Propst hit on the ingenious idea of the cubicle office system, and it became fashionable to divide office workers again, to preserve privacy....
...Robert Propst, a designer and director of the research division of furniture company Herman Miller, thought this arrangement a terrible misuse of human potential....
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