The Right Angle - NYTimes.com Ward Bennett (1917-2003) was one of design's great American success stories. He left home at 13, created dresses and window displays, met Brancusi and studied painting with Hans Hofmann - before he was 30. When he turned to design, his clients included David Rockefeller, Gianni Agnelli and Jann and Jane Wenner. Bennett used industrial materials before they were chic and insisted that his furniture be comfortable. Many of his designs went out of production, leaving aficionados to hunt the secondhand market. But now Herman Miller is adding several Bennett pieces (including the Scissor chair and I-Beam table shown here) to its Herman Miller Collection, a portfolio of products for home and office that also includes classics by the Eameses, Nelson and Noguchi; contemporary designers like Sam Hecht, Leon Ransmeier and Ayse Birsel; and the Italian brands Magis and Mattiazzi. (The collection will make its debut this month; go to hermanmiller.com) As Ben Watson, the company's executive creative director, says, "We are celebrating our design heritage, but we're not just looking backward."