| Modern office furniture through scientific and technological progress and new materials and new technology invented, has drawn on anthropology, sociology, philosophy, aesthetic ideas, in the connotation and extension of office furniture, space expanding, versatile, ever-changing shape, create and lead mankind into a new way of life and work of material equipment and cultural patterns. In order to better understand current market trends, the paper start from the U.S. office furniture industry, in-depth analysis of the history of the U.S. office furniture industry. Then current market better products and popular sub-type of design analysis, whereby the development of contemporary office furniture, the United States summarized the current situation. Then through the field survey, to enter the U.S. companies, the use of time-sharing photos, real-time video, field observations, etc. to obtain information on employee activities, and in-depth interviews with staff of different departments, get first-hand information. Then summarize the data collation, analysis of existing U.S. office employees work, to predict future trends. In order to verify the results, followed by the design research, ergonomics passenger seat selected as a design object, and research and development of new wood guest chair ergonomic design. |