1960, george nelson and Robert Propst began to study new office concepts for Herman Miller, developed a new concept of mobile office, and published the world's first set of office furniture system (Action Office Syetem) in 1964. On 1968, the world's first set of office furniture "Mobile Office 2" was launched, including panels, countertops and hanging storage systems, thus changing the traditional office style and making the system furniture generally adopt open office design in office planning.
1973, Steelcase introduced the "9000 Series" screen system, and gradually integrated the concept and advantages of system furniture into every office.
1977 Herman Miller further studied the humanization of office space and introduced personal workstation "workspace".
1984 Bill Stumpf designed a brand-new systematic furniture "Ethospace" for Herman Miller, which is a systematic furniture that takes into account humanity, work style and environment at the same time. Steelcase also adds a block design to the original traditional screen; Haworth has successively introduced a new type of blocky screen called "Places". Screen-based system furniture is very popular in America, but Europe is developing to independent system furniture. Europeans pay more attention to open space; The United States is used to maintaining a private office environment, so the United States uses a large number of screen systems. But whether it is an independent desk system or a screen system, there is the same premise, that is, there must be a systematic design with the functions of expanding, connecting and storing lines.
1989 Steelcase developed a new independent table system furniture "Context". From then on, until 2000, Herman Miller launched the latest new honeycomb planning system "Resolves", which gave a new interpretation to the use of space and working form, and also opened a new era for the development of system furniture.