15% off (Sale price $505.75 ) :: Nelson Pear Lotus Floor Lamp by Herman Miller


15% off (Sale price $505.75, Reg. Price $595.00) :: “Nelson Pear Lotus Floor Lamp by Herman Miller. The Nelson Lotus Floor Lamp brings this classic mid-century modern design by George Nelson to a floor setting. With a beautiful elongated lamp shade and a sleek steel base, the Nelson Lotus Floor Lamp brings a warmth and sculptural presence to any interior or workspace. Comes with a 9-foot plug-in cord. George Nelson first designed the bubble Lamps in 1952, when he came across a Swedish hanging lamp that he wanted to acquire for this office. He was challenged by the expensive price and decided to make his own. The result was a series of elemental, spherical shapes like the cigar and pear, among others. An Official Herman Miller Retailer We’re an authorized Herman Miller retailer. This means we’re official. We sell new factory-direct product complete with Herman Miller’s own warranty. You can purchase confidently from Office Designs knowing you’ll be receiving genuine Herman Miller product. Design Story An influential designer of mid-century modernism in America, George Nelson came across a set of hanging lamps from Sweden and loved everything about their modern aesthetic, except for their extravagant cost. ÒThe Swedish design was done in a silk covering that was very difficult to make; they had to cut gores and sew them onto a wire frame. But I wanted one badly,Ó Nelson wrote in his book, On Design, published in 1979. A seemingly unrelated reference led to an intuitive idea. ÒIt was hard to remember what $125 meant in the late forties….I was furious and was stalking angrily down the stairs when suddenly an image popped into my mind which seemed to have nothing to do with anything. It was a picture in the New York Times some weeks before which showed Liberty ships being mothballed by having the decks covered with netting and then being sprayed with a self-webbing plastic…Whammo! We rushed back to the office and made a roughly spherical frame; we called various places until we located the manufacturer of the spiderwebby spray. By the next night we had a plastic-c

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