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Herman Miller
Herman Miller, founded in Zeeland, Michigan in 1905, became one of the most influential furniture design companies in history through its long collaborations with pioneering designers including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi, whose furniture pieces became modernist design icons. The company's Aeron chair, launched in 1994 and designed specifically around ergonomic research rather than traditional office chair aesthetics, became one of the most recognizable and widely imitated office chairs ever produced, eventually entering the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Herman Miller's furniture designs, including the Eames Lounge Chair, achieved a rare status as genuine design icons displayed in major museums worldwide while also remaining continuously in commercial production for decades, a combination few furniture pieces from any era have achieved. Herman Miller's combination of its historic design collaborations with legendary modernist designers and its museum-recognized Aeron chair has made it one of the most critically respected furniture brands in design history.
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La-Z-Boy
La-Z-Boy was founded in 1927 by cousins Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker in Monroe, Michigan, who invented a wooden slat porch chair that could recline, and their reclining chair design became so closely associated with the company that its name became a generic term for recliners generally. The company's recliner became a fixture of mid-20th-century American living rooms and a widely recognized symbol of domestic comfort in American popular culture, frequently referenced in film and television as visual shorthand for a relaxed, homey living space. La-Z-Boy expanded from its original reclining chair into a full furniture manufacturer, and its name's transformation into a genericized trademark, used informally by many people to describe any brand's recliner, reflects a level of cultural market penetration few furniture brands achieve. La-Z-Boy's combination of inventing the modern recliner and its resulting genericized-trademark status in American culture has made it one of the most culturally recognizable furniture brands in the country.
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