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Pair of armchairs with structure in wood and upholstered fabric (dark red tone) and chromed metal legs. Designed by George Nelson and produced by Herman Miller in the 60s. Literature: Furniture magazine, n. 53, May 1959, p.33. George Nelson, born in 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut (USA), studied architecture at Yale University. A scholarship allows him to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1932 to 1934. In Europe he knows the main architectural works and the main protagonists of modernism. In 1935, Nelson joined the editorial board of the Architectural Forum, where he remained until 1944. A keynote article on housing and furniture design, published by Nelson in a 1944 issue of the magazine, attracted attention by D.J. DePree, head of the Herman Miller, Inc. furniture company. A short time later, George Nelson took over as director of design at Herman Miller. Remaining there until 1972, he became a key figure in American design; in addition to creating home and office furnishings, Nelson lured the likes of Charles & Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Girard to work for Herman Miller. In 1957, Vitra founder Willi Fehlbaum signed the first licensing agreement with Herman Miller to produce furniture for the European market. In the decades following the collaboration with Vitra, a close friendship developed between George Nelson and Rolf Fehlbaum, who later said of Nelson: "No other prominent designer spoke so intelligently or wrote so consistently about design." Nelson has expressed his thoughts on design issues in numerous articles and eleven books; his seminal treatise "How to See" has recently been republished in a new edition by Phaidon. In addition to serving as director of design at Herman Miller, Nelson opened his own design firm, George Nelson Associates, Inc. in 1947, working with such prominent collaborators as Irving Harper, Ernest Farmer, Gordon Chadwick, George Tscherny, and Don Ervin to create countless products and objects, some of which are now considered icons of mid-century modernism. His architectural work includes numerous private residences. The Sherman Fairchild House (1941) attracted considerable attention, and his Experimental House exemplified his interest in prefabricated buildings and flexible floor plans. George Nelson died in New York in 1986. His holdings, held by the Vitra Design Museum, include approximately 7400 manuscripts, plans, drawings, photographs and slides dated from 1924 to 1984. In 2008/09 the Vitra Design Museum staged the exhibition " George Nelson - Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher.
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