Let’s Celebrate Beauty

Why are organizations moving towards benching solutions? What do users truly and deeply value How does the work environment influence behaviour?

Motivated by our nomadic yet socially connected lifestyle, enabled by technological advancement, and inspired by our innate desire for beautiful objects we present our irresistible take on the workspace for the future: Arras

A Benchmark Solution

Our exceptional bench solution is based on 5 key requirements:

1. Minimal under-structure
2. Privacy on demand
3. Democratic power access
4. Accessible Accessories
5. User-needs driven storage solutions

Arras promises a free and easy solution: one should be able to sit anywhere and at any time; your decision informed by work schedule, available space, the nature of your task, relationships with others and of course, personal preference.

Recessed Understructure

Freedom to sit anywhere fosters the organic development of relationships; sit near someone you enjoy being with, or someone you need to learn to like a lot more.

The Arras intermediate leg structure is recessed inward 500mm along the entire bench length, with pedestals re-adjustable to any position, providing comfortable leg room for all users.

Fascia

Face value can be even more important than you think. We believe that a functionally exceptional bench deserves a visually compelling face.

Social Extensions

We are social creatures, and the more online and other instant messaging tools we have access to, the more we crave genuine face to face interaction.

The Arras extension worksurface provides a sanctioned space to catch up over coffee at a convenient distance from your work area. An ideal spot for collaborative work, there is plenty of leg room, just in case a crowd gathers!

Unparalleled Engineering

At Herman Miller, our vast experience and fervent passion for design and engineering has allowed us to develop a bench that perfectly facilitates all these requirements. But we wanted to do more. We wanted to create a bench that not only demonstrates a floated appearance with delightful elegance, but delivers unquestionable structural stability. The meticulously engineered inside ensures that the outside looks great.

Pivot Wing Access

Access to power, an essential everyday requirement, is made easier and more satisfying by thoughtful engineering that puts user experience first and above everything else.

The Arras power channel features pivoting wings that open smoothly, and recede gently into a vertical pocket to remain uplifted as you wish, and return to the closed position with a soft, reassuring click.

Democratic Power Access

The inside is as good as the outside.

With metal segregation of power and data lines, and lay-in management of cables throughout the entire length of the bench, the Arras has generous provision for at least 160 CAT cables. It is equipped with various types of mounting plates, allowing for regional variation in power outlets, including those with the universal plug face.

For those working on nomadic schedules, and accustomed to carrying various adaptors to suit a range of environments, the generous vertical clearances within the channel allow the use of almost any adaptor available worldwide.

Sideblade

Dematerialization is one of the primary development criteria that informs our careful material selection. It is our responsibility as product designers to minimise the materials and processes we use in achieving our objective, in order to lower the carbon footprint of the products we create.

Heelblade and Glasblade

To create resonance with the way we live and work, our design team takes inspiration from the simple objects found in our homes.

Arras Heelblade in knitted fabric provides homespun colour and textures providing comfort and attenuating the workplace atmosphere with reassuring softness.

In contrast, the Arras Glasblade delivers sexy urban allure with a frameless sheath of crystal clear glass and crisp laser bevelled edge

Privacy on Demand

We should not assume that everyone wants privacy, in fact, people naturally need and crave conversation with others.

Arras sideblades provide flexible positioning of side screens for privacy on demand, delivering aesthetic ingenuity within a functional frame.

Our Tray

When ownership is not entirely clear, we engage in social negotiation, hopefully leading to a better understanding of those we interact with.

Arrasped

The Arrasped is a clear demonstration of the language within the Arras vocabulary.

Cleverly engineered into separable painted components, designers have the freedom to colour customize the Arrasped by specifying variable colours for the body, back panel, drawer fronts and pulls.

Sliding Binders

Our intelligent design can bring ‘play’ in to work where spontaneous shared moments break the monotony of long hours at the bench.

Bringing the Outside Inside

Nature nourishes all of our senses, and on the bench natural foliage is perfect for creating permeable privacy whilst providing a soothing visual treat.

Arras planters can create a verdant garden or well trimmed hedge on the bench itself. With a moulded plastic liner to hold excess liquids, it safely and naturally enriches the workspace.

Can your office be a leafy sanctuary?

Fashion Forward

Arras delivers an imaginative and gorgeous palette of photogenic colours and finishes to accommodate almost every taste.

Some will gravitate to the sportswear-inspired yellow against masculine gray, others to a fabulous kaleidoscope of pink, turquoise and canopy green, and others again may insist on the pure and natural textures of bamboo set against crisp white.

With our fifteen fabulous new colours, we can bring a smile back into the workplace!

Arras™ is designed for durability and ease of churn, carrying our comprehensive Herman Miller 12-year, 3-shift warranty.