GEORGE NELSON THIN EDGE CHEST OF DRAWERS FOR HERMAN MILLER

A fully restored George Nelson 'Thin Edge' chest of drawers with aluminum legs, porcelain hourglass-shaped pulls, and walnut veneer. Produced in the 1960s by Herman Miller, the cabinet and drawers have been completely refinished and are in great condition.It was Nelson's 'Storagewall' concept, first introduced in 1945 in a Life magazine feature article, that led to a series of cabinets that Nelson designed over the course of several years. in the 1940s, George Nelson was at the forefront of the trend toward modernism in design. The Nelson 'Basic Cabinet Series', designed in 1946, was his first clean-lined, functional, and versatile modular storage system, which gave way to the updated 'Rosewood Cabinet Series' of 1952 (so-called due to its singular use of rosewood veneer). This new series represented a synthesis of Nelson’s approach to modular storage furniture with heightened attention to quality and craftsmanship. As the range of veneers expanded and design details were standardized,