01A reissued Nelson cabinet from the Basic Cabinet Series, 1946
02George Nelson in ‘Life’ magazine, 15 November, 1948
03CEO of Herman Miller, Brian Walker
04The archiving facility
05Gregg VanderKooi, production manager at Herman Miller
06Film reels of Ray and Charles Eames
07An original 1955 catalogue
08Reissued Nelson piece
09Part of the reissued Basic Cabinet Series by Nelson
10Outside Herman Miller
11Reissued Nelson line
12Original prototypes and designs
13Hans Bølling with an original prototype
14Architect Made staff in the HQ
15Kristian Vedel’s bird and Bølling’s duck
16Anker Villumsen in the workshop
17Eyes are applied to the bird heads
18The woodturning workshop in Haslev
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Issue 20
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Issue 49
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Issue 48
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Issue 13
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Issue 47
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Issue 14
This year’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile defied the credit crunch with an optimistic mood and a record number of visitors – 348,000 in total, 29 per cent more than 2007, 210,000 of whom came from abroad. Visitors from…
Issue 7
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Issue 62
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Issue 38
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Issue 30
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Issue 22
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Issue 39
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