chair-man of the dotcom board

Here's a pretty hilarious article in this month's New York magazine about Bill Stumpf, the designer of Herman Miller's legendary aeron chair, who recently passed away.

Remembering the Dot-Com Throne [nymag]

My most poignant aeron chair memory would have to be when ArsDigita moved offices and I was helping to unload dozens of these beauties from the 30' moving truck (which I had only moments earlier gotten wedged on the steep incline of Le Conte Ave.) and it seemed like half of them had broken during the move. We were just chucking aside these damanged $1000-dollar chairs into a big pile in the corner. oh, those were the days.

May he rest in peace on the big aeron in the sky -- his lumbar fully supported and seat-area well ventilated. Programmers everywhere salute you.