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Niels Diffrient was an American industrial designer and furniture designer. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and studied at the University of Mississippi and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He was best known for his ergonomic office chairs, which revolutionized the office furniture industry.
Diffrient was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Industrial Designers Society of America's highest honor, the Design Excellence Award, in 1998. He was also inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2000.
Diffrient died on May 8, 2013, at the age of 85. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two grandchildren.
At the time of his death, Diffrient had an estimated net worth of $10 million. He earned his wealth through his successful career as an industrial designer and furniture designer. He also earned money through royalties from his designs, which were sold by companies such as Humanscale, Steelcase, and Herman Miller.
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Diffrient died on 8 June 2013 at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Humanscale is an American company based in New York City, best known for its Freedom chair designed by Niels Diffrient and introduced in 1999.
In the field of furniture design, most notably ergonomic seating, Diffrient won a total of 24 awards, including two Best of Show and 10 Gold and Top awards. He cited in more than 46 design and utility patents on furniture designs in America and abroad. Other honors include the I.D. (magazine) Top 40 Design Innovators of 1996, the 1996 Chrysler Award for Innovation, the Smithsonian’s 2002 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Product Design, and the 2005 Legend Award from Contract magazine. In 2007, Forbes.com named Diffrient the "granddaddy of the ergonomic revolution" and one of ten "Tastemakers" in the field of industrial design. In 1987 he was appointed an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) by the Royal Society for Arts (RSA) in London. In 2012, he received a Lifetime Contribution to Design Award and FX Magazine International Interior Design Awards.
In his career, which lasted over a half century, Diffrient designed every type of equipment, as well as computers, exhibits, trucks, airplane interiors and corporate identity programs. He has also been broadly published in the field of design and human factors, most notably as co-author of the three-volume publication, Humanscale, in 1974 and 1981. He is credited with pioneering the use of ergonomics, or what he called human factors engineering, in dozens of office furniture designs.
Upon arriving back in the United States in 1955, Diffrient joined Dreyfuss Associates in their Pasadena offices, and spent the next few decades revolutionizing American industrial design through his development of interiors and corporate identity for American Airlines planes, the landmark Princess telephone, the Polaroid SX-70 camera, and tractor seats for John Deere. In 1980 after 25 years with Henry Dreyfuss Associates, Diffrient left to start his own independent practice, establishing a design studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut which he shared with his wife, tapestry artist Helena Hernmarck.
While in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1954, Diffrient went to work in the studio of the great architect Marco Zanuso, where he assisted with the design of an award-winning Borletti sewing machine.
Niels Diffrient (6 September 1928 – 8 June 2013) was an American industrial designer. Diffrient focused mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale.
Diffrient was born in 1928 in a farmhouse near Star, Mississippi.
