15% off (Sale price $420.75 ) :: Nelson Cigar Lotus Table Lamp by Herman Miller

15% off (Sale price $420.75, Reg. Price $495.00) :: “Nelson Cigar Lotus Table Lamp by Herman Miller. The Lotus Table Lamp brings a classic George Nelson design to a desk or table setting. Part of the Nelson Bubble Lamp series, its elegant lampshade is set on a steel base and is available in both a steel or walnut base. It comes with an easy-to-use on/off pull chain with a solid walnut end and includes a 86-inch plug-in cord. The Nelson Bubble Lamps were first designed in 1952 when George Nelson was inspired by a set of Swedish hanging lamps. Their expensive price prompted Nelson to make a set of his own. He arrived at an innovative process that replaced their silk shade with a translucent plastic material, making them available at a modest price. 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 spiderwe

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