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Lot 6TP

George Nelson & Associates
Miniature chest-on-stand, from the 'Rosewood Case Group', model no. 5515, designed 1952, produced 1954-circa 1963

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3 October 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,584 inc. premium

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George Nelson & Associates

Miniature chest-on-stand, from the 'Rosewood Case Group', model no. 5515, designed 1952, produced 1954-circa 1963
Indian rosewood-veneered wood, painted steel, plastic-laminated wood.
69 x 76.5 x 33 cm
Manufactured by Herman Miller, Zeeland, Michigan. Reverse of each drawer with ink-stamped numbers 13-18.

Footnotes

Literature
Herman Miller, Rosewood Cabinet Series, sales catalogue, n.p.
Herman Miller, Furniture Company, sales catalogue, 1955, p. B-1
Leslie Piña, Fifties Furniture, Atglen, 2000, pp. 4, 145 for a similar example
Alexander von Vegesack, Jochen Eisenbrand, George Nelson, Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher, Weil am Rhein, 2008, p. 245
Prof. Dr Mateo Kries and Marc Zehntner, et al., eds., Atlas of Furniture Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2019, no. 887

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