Using something as iconic as a Herman Miller Airia desk to "borrow" for a design is pretty suspect. Furniture isn't like contemporary art where appropriation and quoting is an established mode. This is just a really nice knock-off.
I'd agree with that, wonder what the price difference is? I don't have the energy to look it up right now.
And Fongstar, I took some furniture design courses when I was getting my degree, just two, as electives, and it's really really difficult to get everything precise without using computers to do all the measuring for you. The actual craft just comes from experience. I didn't do very well in those classes.