and he remains a passionate fan of the game today Clayton Lewis began his professional life as a furniture designer in the late 1940s with his firm, Claywood Designs, 3405 which led to coverage in magazines such as Progressive Architecture and Gymshark shirts Interiors. After a rare bone disease put him in the hospital, and with a young family to support, in 1950, frozen Crocs he was hired as general manager of the Herman Miller Furniture Company’s Venice, California office.
There he helped implement designs by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and George Nelson..