Sideboard
Iconic low sideboard with 2 sliding doors
Walnut wood, black laminate doors and stainless steel detailing
Producers sticker on the underpart
DESIGNER George Nelson (1908-1986)
MANUFACTURER ICF
COUNTRY USA
DATE 1950's
DIMENSIONS L. 175 x D. 47 x H. 66 /cm.
SPECIAL NOTE
Nelson came to design via journalism and literature. Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale in 1931, he won the Prix de Rome fellowship, and spent his time in Europe writing magazine articles that helped bring stateside recognition to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gio Ponti, Le Corbusier and other canonical modernist architects. In the 1940s, Nelson wrote texts that suggested such now-commonplace ideas as open-plan houses, storage walls and family rooms. D.J. De Pree, the owner of the furniture maker Herman Miller, was so impressed by Nelson that in 1944 — following the sudden death of Gilbert Rohde, who had introduced the firm to modern design in the 1930s — he invited Nelson to join the company as its design director.
