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barry
i have never seen that Nelson kite before but it looks really cool it says Herman miller made it,
James said that the turbine clock was the only one that did not look that good he said that it seemed a little shiny
i have never seen the vitra or the original so i would have no idea how it is suppose to be,
i talked to those guys and they said they were going to order the blue block clock but it takes 4 months from their vendor, so that should make all the ones that vitra makes available to them also
that multi color spike and eye clock are great

Turbine
I have the Vitra Turbine and the metal is more of a tarnished look, the replica has a lot more shiny(like a wire wheel was taken to it). Picture is of my Vitra and the link should take you right to the Turbine.
http://whiteonwhite.dphoto.com/#/album/2345/photo/227344/

Hmmm, the original eye clock...
Hmmm, the original eye clock looks a little more "wide open" than the repro ones we've been talking about. The first pic is a White on White from earlier in this thread (via Nick R60) and the second is the original from Wright Auction house.
Doth mien eyes deceive me? Wright says the dimensions should be 29.5 w x 2.5 d x 15 h inches -- do the repros conform to these dimensions? Anyone who's got one want to measure?

brbeard
it does look bigger in the picture but I can not imagine that Vitra would make any thing but a dead ringer when they hold the rights to all of the nelson clocks, It would be interesting to find out if someone had the original or new the exact measurements,

I have never seen that Nelson kite before but it looks really cool it says Herman miller made it,
The lamp has no markings whatsoever, and for years, I didn't know who was behind it, but there's a couple of possible clues.
The fabric is lined with the similar plastic material as is on the bubble lamps, right down to how easy it cracks. The chain has a small wooden ball as the handle, reminding one of the ball clock.
It's difficult, since I don't think any of his attributed lamps (this Kite Lamp, the Helmet lamp, the half-Nelson) were made by the same company.
It is interesting that most of the better furniture designers didn't get too much into lightning, other than Arne Jacobsen and Alver Aalto.
Also, too, is the fact that neither Knoll or Herman Miller got too involved with lighting, either.
By the way, I did a search and found something on the Nelson Kite Lamp
http://www.organicorigin.co.uk/lighting_details.asp?product=George%20Nel...

Eye Clock
The Vitra Eye clock is more like the other newer reproduction than the original. I personally don't like the bigger vintage version, too fat.

james
There you go even Vitra the holy grail changes things up when they see fit, nothing surprises me
everyone wants to make things better and more efficient
If you want the original on any thing from Knoll, Herman
Miller, Vitra, you will just have to buy the 50 year old ones at wright auctions.

Wildest Nelson clock??
I actually owned this clock, but I sold it on eBay for $400.00 a couple of years ago. (It didn't work and the front tip of the base was a bit mangled....but it DID have the George Nelson signature decal on it.)

Slack Jawed
Barry...why didn't you post this earler? That's one crazy looking clock! Is there a name for this clock or model number? For now, I'll call it the record clock.

Don't know the number
I did have a signiture decal on the back of the base with Nelson's signiture and it was a Howard Miller clock. It also did have a paper label with the number.
I believe it was part of the final group of clocks designed by Nelson Associates. It was rather cheap; the base was partical wood (you can tell by the crumbled front broken edge of the base) and the round disc was polystyrene foam. I could've snapped it in half, if I had wanted to!
The round disc was only attached to the base by a single screw and it wasn't really very firm.
My guess it was late 1970's, probably Nelson's version of the Memphis School of modern weirdness.
I'm sorry I sold it, but I needed the dough at that time and didn't know where to get a new battery motor.
Live and learn, to be sure
There's a photograph of it on page 190 of the Schiffer book "Fifties Ferniture". It's listed as a "post-modern table clock". Indeed.

brbeard - My clock measures...
brbeard - My clock measures W76 * D7 * H34cm which is the same as the Vitra editions.

great looking clock i ...
great looking clock i have never seen that one at all Barry
i would loved to have owned that one it is toooooo coool

Another weird Meridian clock plus a lamp
Check these out...never seen either of these.

Meridian clock
Meridian clocks this is a whole new animal in the Howard Miller family that we really have never dove into on this forum,
was Nelson really involved with them? I have seen about 25 different styles and have never collected any of them,
about 6 months ago a collector sold 20 plus on ebay and got around 500 per clock average, I would love to be able to get a set of hands for one as i have the clock with no hands. just waiting to go.

I believe the Meridian's were Nelson
If I'm not wrong, all of the Meridian clocks are ceramic, designed by Nelson & Associates and made in Italy.
I believe that they were distributed by Howard Miller. I may be wrong, but the hands and overall high-quality style screams Nelson.