Hi,
I saw a Nelson slat bench in an antique shop today that had a wire base instead of the usual wood, u-shaped legs. The wire base was similar in design to the bases on Eames DTMs. Has anyone ever seen this before? Were there only manufactured for a short time. I quite liked it. Unfortunately, it was priced at $3200 (it also had a Nelson cabinet with it, but still...)
definitely
there was indeed a metal-legged version of the slat bench, as you describe. the link below has something similar.
much rarer than the wood-legged version since only made for a few years -- though not sure which is "better". seems to lack the solidity of the standard version.
http://www.architonic.com/4100505
oh, and I was "beebs" (the...
oh, and I was "beebs" (the initial poster), incidentally -- this Nelson bench was in the same store that the Nakashima stool that I posted about earlier was in. I didn't want to expose the stool's location in case anyone living in Chicago had been to the same store. Hence, the new username. I'm a tricky one.
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