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14/01/2011 7:13 am  

I was told that this pair of cabinets are by Herman Miller. (Plausible?) Does anyone recognize these?


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14/01/2011 7:18 am  

I don't
think so . . .
Does that swell bottom rail and those cute little legs look like anything you've seen from the good folks at Zeeland ?


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14/01/2011 7:24 am  

No, not in the slightest.
That's why I was checking here. I suspect that the woman who claimed they were HM uses "Herman Miller" as shorthand for anything and everything midcentury.


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14/01/2011 7:27 am  

And, she had several other good things that were genuine Knoll,
and a wonderful Harold Schwartz/ Romweber dining table.


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14/01/2011 7:57 am  

Ah.
You've seen these ? Are those touch-latch drawers ? Padded Naugahyde fronts ? Bizarre. . .


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14/01/2011 8:00 am  

I have no idea how those pillowy drawers open
I've only seen photos thus far. But the rest of the items in the house are of very high quality.


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14/01/2011 9:02 am  

Yes. It's by Herman Miller
Designed by Gilbert Rohde in the early 40s.


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14/01/2011 9:06 am  

Oh
And you pull the drawer open from the sides. There is a space between the outside edge of the drawer and the cabinet.


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14/01/2011 9:13 am  

Those are Herman Miller!
Those are an early HM design by an under appreciated GIlbert Rohde .
Rohde is the initial creator of HM EOG and modular furniture which later morphed into the BCS group for which the George Nelson Associates mostly get credit for.


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14/01/2011 4:37 pm  

Thanks Pegboard & Mario
I thought there might be an outside chance it was early, pre-George Nelson Herman Miller; I guess what I was told is accurate, then--
Many thanks.


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14/01/2011 5:10 pm  

Another example, from a Google search:
the vanity/ desk.


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