nelson slat bench with wire base

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beebs

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15/03/2007 6:03 am

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...)

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LuciferSum

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15/03/2007 11:43 pm

Didnt Bertoia do a bench
Didnt Bertoia do a bench similar to Nelsons, only with wire legs? Perhaps thats what you saw? Or a modified version of an actual Nelson. Bertoia link below.

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whitespike

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16/03/2007 12:06 am

I am pretty sure there was a ...
I am pretty sure there was a version with metal legs. I believe I have seen it before.

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16/03/2007 2:16 am

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

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brbeard

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16/03/2007 3:59 am

Yep, those are the legs, ycl...
Yep, those are the legs, ycl (just with the usual slat bench top, of course). Nice work. So maybe, his pricing isn't that ridiculous...(it's $2400 right now during a sale -- still more than I want to spend, though.) Thanks for the info.

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brbeard

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16/03/2007 7:59 am

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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