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- ↑ "HKDI and Herman Miller Presents: A series of lectures by design leaders". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
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- 1 2 Auscherman, Amy (2019). Herman Miller: A Way of Living. London: Phaidon. p. 461. ISBN 9780714875217.
- ↑ Industrial Designers Society of America. "Ergon Chair (1976)". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
