A Sad Day for Design and Seating

This was a sad story to learn by way of the always informative Dezain. Bill Stumpf, a very famous, impossibly skilled designer and a partner at Herman Miller, passed away a short while ago due to surgery complications. Mr. Stumpf was best known for a wide variety of things, but most often is referred to as the creator of the Ergon chair in 1972, the groundbreaking design that helped create modern ergonomic seating, leading to his later design in 1994 of the Aeron chair.