Desk Model 5494
30,000 € - 50,000 €
$20,000 - $37,000
£16,000 - £30,000
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- •1953
- •Producer: Herman Miller - No longer produced
George Nelson Associates
George Nelson was born on May 29, 1908, in Hartford.
Starting in 1924, he studied architecture at Yale and graduated in 1928. Winning the prestigious Rome Prize in 1932, he traveled through Europe and met pioneers of modernist architecture such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Gio Ponti.
Returning to the United States in 1935, Nelson dedicated a decade to writing for architecture magazines, interviewing American architects—including Charles Eames, with whom he would later collaborate—and publishing an innovative book, Tomorrow’s House...
